Day Program- Direct Support Professional (Shared Staff)

United Cerebral Palsy of GA; Macon (GA); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia in Macon, GA is seeking a Direct Support Professional for a shared staff role serving adults with developmental disabilities in day program and residential group homes.

You will provide direct care, teach self-help and community skills, and support participants in both settings to maintain consistency and person-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct assistance in self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills training for participants.
• Assists with engagement in rule compliance, attendance, task completion, problem solving, work speed, and safety.
• Offers training or retraining to improve access to community resources for participants.
• Provides personal care and support with self-administration of medication as needed.
• Implements behavioral support plans to reduce maladaptive behaviors and build adaptive skills.
• Supports participation in community social, recreational, and leisure activities.
• Maintains work area, cleans, and returns supplies to designated areas daily.
• Provides transportation to community activities as needed.
• Completes required documentation (progress notes, goal tracking, HRST tracking, seizure/position/activity logs).
• Ensures ISP-directed or participant-directed activities and pace; participates actively with participants.

Job description

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Day Program- Direct Support Professional (Shared Staff)

Macon, GA, US

Our Mission and Vision:

The mission of United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia is to positively support and impact the achievement of a Life Without Limits for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

UCP of Georgia's vision is to create a community in which every person, regardless of ability, can participate as an equal citizen. To realize this vision, UCP of Georgia offers supports designed to help people maximize their potential and achieve independent, productive, and rewarding lives.

Job Summary: Support, teach, and assist adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities in group and 1:1 settings as needed. This is a shared staff position that provides support in both the day center and residential group homes. Employees in this role must be flexible and available to work across both settings based on program and staffing needs, while ensuring individuals receive consistent, person-centered care and support.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provides direct assistance in self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills training, retention, and improvement to individual participants and group participants.
• Provides direct assistance in engagement with teaching such concepts as rule compliance, attendance, task completion, problem solving endurance, work speed, work accuracy, increased attention span, motor skills, and safety.
• Provides direct assistance in training, retraining, or improving the access to and use of community resources by individual participants or groups of participants.
• Provides participant specific assistance such as personal care, and self-administration of medication, for participants enrolled in program services. (Examples: feeding, toileting, lifting and transferring)
• Implements behavioral support plans of participants to reduce inappropriate and maladaptive behaviors and assist with acquiring appropriate adaptive skills and behaviors.
• Provides active support and direct assistance in participation in community social, recreational and leisure activities.
• Maintain work area - cleaning tables, chairs, and supplies daily/weekly as scheduled. Assures supplies are kept organized and in working order. Return supplies to designated area daily.
• Provides transportation as needed for participants to community access activities.
• Complete all required documentation such as (progress notes, goal tracking sheets, HRST tracking sheets, seizure tracking, positing tracking, communication logs, activity calendars, production tracking, etc.) Assure all paperwork is submitted on time.
• Ensure that the environment, pace of activities, and type of activities are ISP (Individual Service Plan) directed or participant directed. Physically participate with program participants in all activities.
• Assist in ensuring that all support services as well as site remains in compliance ...etc...