Direct Support Professional - Youth Residential Treatment Center - NEW RATE INCREASE!

Vanderheyden, Inc.; Wynantskill (NY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderheyden, Inc. seeks Direct Support Professionals to provide direct care, transportation, and life skills instruction for individuals served.

The role includes implementing daily routines and ensuring a safe environment, with responsibilities such as documenting progress and collaborating with the treatment team. Requirements include a High School Diploma or GED, the ability to write legibly, basic computer literacy, and a valid New York driver's license.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Prior work with youth preferred.
• Able to write legibly.
• Basic computer literacy required.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct care to individuals, including daily routines and life skills activities.
• Dispenser medications when certified, and transport individuals as assigned.
• Document behaviors and communications; complete logs and reporting.
• Participate in treatment teams and service plan reviews.
• Maintain a safe, compliant living environment and liaise with staff and families as needed.

Skills

Legible writing

Basic computer literacy

NY driver's license

Restraint/TCI certification

Youth work experience

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

DSPs are responsible for the direct care of individuals served, including transportation, instruction on life skills, implementing daily routines, providing recreational opportunities, dispensing medication, and ensuring that the environment is safely managed. Direct Support Professionals also assume responsibility for documenting individual behaviors, participating in treatment teams and service plan reviews, and performing physical interventions in regard to an individual’s Treatment Plan and Behavioral Support Plan (BSP), and complete other responsibilities as properly assigned. Evenings and weekends. Full-Time and Part-Time.

Primary Duties & Essential Functions

• Employs procedure, which maintain an environment of care that is safe.
• Awake position.
• Provides direct care to individuals.
• Implements daily schedules, including all routines recreational opportunities and life skills activities.
• Able to be med certified to dispense medication.
• Transports individuals as assigned.
• Assists assigned individuals with specified tasks as designated by individual service plan.
• Participates in the treatment team or recommendation process.
• Fundamental knowledge of individuals' developmental stages.
• Learns and practices agency policies and procedures.
• Learns and implements each individual’s treatment plan and Behavioral Support Plan (BSP).
• Provides coverage as assigned. Remains on duty until properly relieved.
• Will work in conjunction with assigned supervisor to ensure full compliance with all mandatory trainings.
• Maintains the residence in full compliance with agency and state regulatory standards.
• Proactively and effectively liaises with the maintenance department.
• Ensures the residence is secure at all times (windows/doors/offices locked).
• Learns and implements daily routine and program expectations.
• Liaises with interdisciplinary team (clinical, health services, education).
• Facilitates and participates in all recreational opportunities on and off grounds.
• Upon arrival, reviews all logs and completes briefing.
• Completes all necessary communications, documentation, and logging.
• Properly notifies and/or consults with the shift AOD.
• Proactively and effectively liaises with other disciplines.
• Completes notifications to families, external agencies (county, policy) as prescribed by policy and procedure.
• Daily review of messaging systems (email, voicemail, interoffice mail).
• Adheres to timelines and deadlines.
• Attends scheduled meetings (house issue group, treatment teams, supervision, and committees).
• Adheres to HIPAA standards.

Required Education, Knowledge And Skills

• High School Diploma/GED.
• Prior work experience with youth preferred.
• Able to write legibly.
• Basic computer literacy.

Abilities And Working Conditions

• Physical and TB annually.
• Must be able to lift 25 pounds.
• Must be able to stand and run for moderate periods of time.
• Must have a valid NYS driver's license with a clean MVR.
• Must be able to perform restraints and maintain TCI certification.
• Willingness to respond to the needs of a culturally diverse population.
• Ability to be mobile in a two-story living unit.

Compensation:

$20+ an hour based on education and experience.

Vanderheyden is committed to the National Sanctuary Model - a blueprint for clinical and organizational change which, at its core, promotes safety and recovery from adversity through the active creation of a trauma-informed community. The Sanctuary Model's focus is not only on the people who seek services, but equally on the people and systems that provide those services.

Vanderheyden Hall Inc., as an Equal Opportunity Employer, does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices on the basis of gender, race or ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, military or marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, prior arrest or conviction record or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.