Direct Support Mentor

00 RHA Health Services, LLC; West Jefferson (NC); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

00 RHA Health Services, LLC is hiring a Direct Support Mentor in West Jefferson, NC. This mid-level role focuses on personal outcomes, dignity, and life quality for individuals with IDD and mental health challenges.

You will work with an interdisciplinary team to support daily living, community involvement, and personal development, maintaining safety and compassionate care at all times.

Qualifications

• Must have a high school diploma or GED.
• Prefer experience working with IDD individuals.
• At least one year of experience working with the population served.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and personal vehicle insurance coverage.
• Maintain CPR and First Aid certification and other required trainings.

Responsibilities

• Assist people supported to identify personal outcomes aligned with interests and background.
• Assist Interdisciplinary Team in identifying supports to realize personal outcomes.
• Promote dignity, respect, and quality of life for each person supported.
• Provide opportunities for choice and encourage self-direction.
• Report any incidents of abuse, neglect or exploitation immediately.
• Help maintain cleanliness of group home and vehicles; perform environmental checks and maintenance follow-ups.
• Support people in eating, self-care, and daily activities according to abilities.
• Help develop healthy personal and social habits and community involvement.

Skills

Patience

Compassion

Nurturing

Calm under stress

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

We are hiring for:

Direct Support Mentor Type:
Regular

If you are a positive and personable individual looking for a satisfying and fun opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of people with intellectual, developmental disabilities, and people facing mental health, and substance use challenges, join our team at RHA Health Services!

Responsibilities Include:

• Assists people supported to identify personal outcomes that best suit his or her personal interests, cultural background, and desires for the future.
• Assists the Interdisciplinary Team in identifying supports needed for personal outcomes to be realized.
• Understands and promotes the people supported's goals, as well as personal dignity, respect, individualism and quality of life.
• Provides opportunities for choice, and encourages people supported to make choices, and to exercise control over themselves and their environment.
• Reports all incidents of people supported abuse, neglect or exploitation immediately
• Ensures and assists with the cleanliness of group home by completing Environmental Assessments, work orders for maintenance needs, monitoring cleanliness of company vehicles and keeping home and grounds clean.
• Supports people supported in eating, resting, dressing, bathing, grooming, toileting, playing, and working, according to each person's abilities and interests.
• Helps people supported develop healthy personal and social habits.
• Prepares, assists and instructs people supported in food preparation and cleaning of residences and vocational program areas.
• Supports people supported in identifying and acquiring valued social roles in integrated community settings, including, but not limited to opportunities for membership in local groups, clubs, and organizations.
• Instructs and assists people supported using techniques and strategies designed to improve sensory motor and perceptual motor development, perception, memory, language, cognition, and social and emotional development.
• Works with each person receiving services to increase motivation; provides consistent reinforcement to learning, continuous assessment of level of functioning, and continuous feedback to each individual for all learning activities.
• Trains people supported in self-medication administration according to company policy.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties I will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or I am directed to perform a specific task by my supervisor. When I have questions about my responsibilities and/or my job duties, or when I see or hear things that I do not understand, I will consult my supervisor, other members of management.

The ideal candidates for this mid-level position are patient, compassionate, nurturing and have a calming demeanor in times of stress.

Additional requirements for this mid-level role include:

• Must have a High school diploma or (GED).
• Prefer experience working with IDD individuals.
• Least one year of experience working with the population served.
• Must have a valid driver's license (this is a condition of employment) including personal vehicle insurance coverage.
• Must maintain proficiency in company sponsored training and certifications and privileging as required.
• Maintain CPR and First Aid certification , Med Tech and NCI certifications and other core competency training that may be specified and/or required by future company regulations or service definitions of service being provided
• Depending on service being provided must be clinically supervised by a qualified professional according to supervision requirements as specified by licensure or certification requirements of appropriate discipline or service being provided.
• Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in CPR from floor level. Practicing CPR skills will require