Direct Support Professional - DSP 1

Young Adult Institute; City of Peekskill (NY); Presencial; USD 40.000 - 48.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Young Adult Institute is seeking a dedicated team member for the Peekskill WOW program in Peekskill, NY. The role focuses on assisting individuals to maximize strengths and maintain safety, while promoting social connections and community engagement.

Responsibilities include implementing person-centered plans, supporting daily living activities, managing medications, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality care and compliance with all regulations.

Responsabilidades

• Assists individuals in maximizing their strengths, interests, and abilities while providing emotional support and building positive relationships.
• Supports people to meet personal goals and encourages socializing and community connections.
• Oversees safety and supervision, follows program guidelines, and escalates signs of potential harm.
• Ensures health, wellness and safety through crisis management and adherence to policies.
• Provides support per individualized service plans and BSPs, IPoPs, Life Plans, and related safeguards.
• Maintains a clean, safe, and organized therapeutic environment.
• Follows infection control protocols and safe handling procedures.
• Assists with ADLs, personal care, and light housekeeping tasks.
• Administers medications as prescribed per guidelines.
• Develops skills and supports person-centered advocacy.
• Facilitates communication, dispute resolution, and ethical decision making.
• Prepares meals and snacks according to dietary restrictions and modified diets.
• Transports individuals for activities and appointments.
• Assists with purchases and manages personal funds as appropriate.
• Learns specialized clinical knowledge for adults with challenging behaviors and complex medical needs.
• Implements Behavior Support Plans as written by BIS.
• Collects and reviews data on observable behavior; reports changes to the clinical team.
• Works as a team member to relay needs and support plan execution.
• Completes trainings and certifications to ensure compliance with policies.
• Documents events, progress notes, and billing-related entries in electronic health records.
• Follows EMOE teaching methods and applies nonrestrictive supports.
• Understands behavior as communication and uses person-centered thinking to prevent escalation.
• Complies with all relevant regulations and agency requirements.

Descripción del empleo

Program : Peekskill WOW

Location : Peekskill, NY

Schedule : Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Key/Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Assists individuals in maximizing their strengths, interests, and abilities, upholding their personal rights, displaying patience and tolerance while providing emotional support and building positive relationships.
• Supports people to meet personal goals that characterize quality of life, engages in respectful communications and conversations through person-first language, encourages socializing and facilitates activities that provide social capital and connections to the community.
• Responsible for the overall supervision, protection, and care of individuals at all times including maintenance of program guidelines for the protection of individuals, facilitating learning and training in fire safety and identifying and appropriately escalating signs of an individual's potential harm to self or others.
• Ensures health, wellness and safety by providing appropriate supervision of the people we support and by managing crisis situations while adhering to applicable policies, procedures and regulations.
• Provides support in a variety of settings and in accordance with each person's individualized service and behavior support plans, utilizing support skills for people with varying levels of need and demonstrating the OPWDD Core Competencies.
• Ensures implementation of person-centered, individualized plans following levels of supervision and safeguards including protective oversight (IPOPs), as well as Behavior Support Plans (BSPs), Staff Action and/or Life Plans for all people we support, understanding the intentions and goals of the plans.
• Maintains a clean, safe and organized therapeutic environment.
• Utilizes safe & appropriate handing procedures when working with individuals and implements infection control protocols.
• Assists with a variety of tasks for people we support, as appropriate/authorized, including: Providing personal care and assisting with activities of daily living (ADLs) including intimate care and personal hygiene (e.g. bathing, dressing, and toileting), laundry and housekeeping.
• Ensuring that medication is administered as prescribed, in accordance with applicable guidelines.
• Teaching/developing skills.
• Supporting person-centered advocacy with the individuals.
• Assisting in communication, self-expression and resolving disputes amongst individuals.
• Facilitating ethical decision making.
• Providing supervision for and/or planning and preparing balanced meals and snacks for people we support in accordance with dietary restrictions and guidelines of specific individuals including for modified diets or liquid consistencies.
• Transporting and escorting individuals on recreational activities, medical appointments, home visits, volunteer and/or employment sites, etc.
• Assisting people with making purchases, as well as safeguarding personal allowance funds and any additional funds provided.
• Develops an understanding of specialized clinical knowledge for person specific needs (supporting adults, challenging behaviors, autism spectrum disorders, complex medical needs).
• Implements Behavior Support Plan as written by Behavior Intervention Specialist (BIS).
• Collects, records, and summarizes data on individuals' observable behavior.
• Observes and reports any changes in behavior, or other signs and symptoms, to clinical and/or leadership team.
• Serves as a member of a highly effective team (teamwork within the circle of support), providing feedback and communicating programmatic needs to members of team and maintaining a solution-oriented approach during conflicts.
• Completes and maintains all necessary trainings and certifications, including specialized trainings based on program and position to ensure compliance with YAI policies and all applicable rules or regulations and applies skills.
• Reviews communication logs daily and makes entries of events, progress notes, services and/or information; collects and enters data as part of daily operations using an electronic health record (e.g. Digital Agency (DA), Electronic Medication Administration Records (eMAR).
• Reviews and completes all other required paperwork and documentation to ensure compliance and/or billing completely, accurately and within appropriate timeframes (e.g., notifications, logging, incident reports, update files, maintenance requests, phone calls, and tracking of incidents).
• Uses foundational teaching skills (Explain, Model, Observe and Evaluate [EMOE], task analysis, essential skills, supports and modifications, etc.) and progressive teaching.
• Understands behavior as communication and employs person-centered thinking to support positive interactions and prevent further escalation.
• Complies with all Federal, State, Local and other relevant regulatory agency requirements, including the Health Insurance Portability and Account