DSP Direct Support Professional - Program Assistant 40 hours

Catholic Charities-Dept For Persons With Disabilities (DPD); Upper Macopin (NJ); On-site; USD 48,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PAID training

Medical/vision and dental

Life insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Accidental/Critical Illness Insurance

403B with company-matching

Generous paid time off

Job summary

The Department for Persons with Disabilities (DPD) at Catholic Charities in New Jersey seeks a Direct Support Professional - Program Assistant to join our group homes. This full-time role offers 40 hours per week with evening and weekend shifts and pays $23.44 per hour.

You will partner with leadership to provide quality services, supervise residential staff, manage meals, activities, medications, and required documentation, while ensuring safety and compliance for residents.

Qualifications

• One year experience working with persons with developmental disabilities and/or a related degree preferred.
• High School/GED diploma required.
• Valid NJ driver's license with <= 5 points.
• Willingness to drive agency vehicles to transport recipients.
• Ability to meet CPR/First Aid physical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Program Director to provide quality services in group homes.
• Work with Director/Associate Director in supervision and training of residential counselors.
• Prepare menus, grocery lists and food shopping; manage meals.
• Schedule activities, monitor medications and coordinate with pharmacy.
• Maintain health and clothing needs; ensure agency/government standards.
• Complete documentation; cooperate with administration and DHS/inspections.
• Share on‑call responsibilities with Director and Associate Director.

Skills

Teamwork

Computer literacy

Driver's license

CPR/First Aid

Education

High School/GED diploma

Tools

Computer programs

Job description

Department for Persons with Disabilities (DPD)

Are you passionate about making a difference in others' lives? Then come join the DPD team!

Department for Persons with Disabilities (DPD) is one of the largest Catholic Charities Agencies providing care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the United States. We are looking for dedicated, caring and compassionate people to work in our Group Homes.

Regular Salary: $23.44 hourly regular

Hours: Full-Time- 40 hours (Tuesday & Wednesday 3:00-11:00pm, Thursday 2:00-10:00pm, Friday 7:00am-3:00pm, and Saturday 3:00-1:00pm)

What’s the role of a Direct Support Professional - Program Assistant?

• Partners with the Program Director to provide quality services to the people living in the home, and uphold the agency philosophy in carrying out the day-to-day tasks.
• You will work with the Director and Associate Director in the supervision and training of residential counselors.
• You must also demonstrate excellence in all tasks of the residential counselor position; includes but is not limited to, preparing menus, grocery lists and food shopping, scheduling activities for the people living in the homes, ensuring the medications are adequately stocked, communicating effectively with the pharmacy, coordinating the completion of fire drills, assisting with administrative tasks, participating in training new staff and sharing on‑call responsibilities with the Director and Associate Director.
• The monitoring of health issues and clothing needs of our residents, ensuring the home is meeting agency and governmental standards of operation.
• This job requires a significant amount of written documentation, computer literacy, and cooperating with the agency's administration and/or Division of Developmental Disabilities and Dept. of Human Services staff in any inspection or investigation.

Great Benefits: For full-time positions, (30+ per week) we offer:

• We provide PAID training
• Medical/vision and dental
• Life insurance (agency-paid), supplemental life insurance (employee-paid)
• Flexible spending accounts
• Accidental/Critical Illness Insurance
• 403B (with company-matching)
• Generous paid time off

Requirements

• One year experience working with persons with developmental disabilities and/or a degree in a related field preferred.
• 18 years of age or older
• High School/GED diploma
• Must have a valid (non-provisional) driver’s license in the State of New Jersey and points on license not to exceed 5 points.
• Required to drive agency vehicles to transport service recipients on a regular basis.
• Should have knowledge of, or willingness to learn computer programs.
• Be motivated to work as part of a team that acts in the best interest of our residents at all times
• The ability to meet the physical requirements of CPR/First Aid and our emergency evacuation procedures.

All offers of employment are contingent on the successful completion/passing of our criminal background/references/DMV check, fingerprinting, pre-employment physical and drug test, etc. All staff must attend a monthly Staff Meeting – date/time to be determined and announced in advance.

Catholic Charities is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) – we will discontinue the use of any recruitment resources which engage in direct or indirect discriminatory practices.