Direct Support Professional - Sandwich

Community Systems, Inc.; Plymouth (MA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Community Systems, Inc. seeks a Direct Support Professional to help people with disabilities live fuller lives at home and in the community. You will assist with daily living, personal care, and health-related tasks while promoting independence and individual choices.

This role requires compassion, reliability, and the ability to work 12-hour shifts, document care activities, and collaborate with families, guardians, and health professionals to support each person’s wellness.

Qualifications

• Experience working with persons with disabilities and supporting independent living
• Ability to teach daily living skills and promote wellness
• Willingness to work 12 hour shifts and adhere to policies and procedures

Responsibilities

• Support and empower persons supported to direct their own lives
• Develop positive relationships and interact respectfully with persons supported
• Provide learning opportunities and life experiences
• Teach social behavior and support plans for individuals
• Assist with personal care and daily living activities
• Support health needs by attending medical appointments and communicating with professionals
• Maintain safe, clean living environments and respect personal preferences
• Complete required documentation in a timely manner
• Obtain and maintain necessary certifications and trainings
• Collaborate with team, families, guardians and other stakeholders
• Safeguard funds and assist with money management
• Perform other duties as assigned

Job description

As a Direct Support Professional (DSP) the primary job responsibility is, “helping persons with disabilities to find happiness in their own homes, in their personal relationships and as contributing members of their community.

The Direct Support Professional is responsible for a variety of duties related to the overall care of individuals with disabilities. Work includes assisting each person to live in a home of his or her own, teaching and assisting with daily living skills, assisting with personal care, and promoting and advocating for the wellness of the people supported. This position helps achieve CSI’s mission by providing day to day supports which includes teaching, coaching, and supervising. The Direct Support Professional is expected to think independently; to ensure people are supported in a manner that conforms to all applicable policies, procedures, laws, regulations and standards

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities:

• Support and implement the CSI mission while empowering each person supported to direct his or her own life
• Develop and maintain a positive and effective relationship with persons supported. Interacting positively, actively and respectfully with persons supported
• Provide opportunities for learning new skills and having new life experiences
• Teach and role-model appropriate social behavior
• Provide supports to people by assisting in the development and implementation of their vision statement and in turn all support plans, including personal spiritual growth, assisting people in achieving their personal goals and desires, providing interaction and choices for activities that support a meaningful day, and supporting people to be independent in activities of daily living
• Support each person’s optimal health, which includes, but is not limited to administering medications, assisting people to medical appointments, and communicating with physicians and other healthcare professionals
• Ensure that people are supported to exercise their rights
• Respectfully assists each person with maintaining a clean and safe home that reflects his or her preferences
• Obtain and maintains, at least, all required certifications and trainings
• Maintain optimal communication and cooperative working relationships with the team, family, guardians and other stakeholders
• Assists each person with money management while safeguarding his or her funds
• Completes required documentation in a timely manner
• Able to work 12 hour shifts
• Adheres to CSI policies and procedures to ensure the safety of persons supported
• Perform other duties as assigned

Equal Opportunity Employer

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