Direct Support Professional - West Metro
On-siteWayzata, Minnesota, United States
Job Summary
Provide daily support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, assisting with personal hygiene, medication administration, household chores, and community activities like driving and shopping. Supervise medical, financial, social, and emotional needs while safely driving the company car or personal auto for Twin Cities appointments. Manage difficult situations by resolving minor issues or escalating to leadership, and report accidents, injuries, or behavioral emergencies per mandated reporter protocols. Complete orientation and annual training, maintain accurate documentation, and support new team members with on-the-job coaching. Work evenings, weekends, and holidays across multiple locations with cross-training requirements.
Required Qualifications
- At least 18 years old
- Ability to work with people of different abilities, genders, ages, cultures, and ethnicities
- Ability and willingness to assist individuals with activities of daily living including bathing and toileting
- Ability and willingness to support individuals with challenging behavior
- Valid driver's license
- Access to a personal auto
- Driving record that meets Hammer's insurance requirements
- Must receive a MN DHS Background study clearance
- Show freedom from Tuberculosis
- Must be able to successfully complete all required training
- Must be prepared to respond to hazardous situations including illness or aggression
- Excellent communication skills
- Fluency in English
- Competence with typing
- Competence with emailing
- Ability to master the organization's documentation standards
- Frequently organizes multiple projects at once
- Excellent time management
- Close attention to detail
- Strong commitment to confidentiality
- Customer service
- Experience performing physical work including: lifting up to 40 pounds
- Ability to push or pull an individual in a wheelchair
- Ability to assist with cares
- Ability to perform twisting/turning
- Ability to kneel/squat
- Ability to reach
- Ability to assist with pivot transfers
- Ability to operate specialized medical or adaptive equipment
- Ability to use lifting equipment
- Ability to drive a lift
- Commitment to working with individuals and teams that are mixed across lines of difference such as race, gender-identity, sexual orientation, religion, ability, age, class, and immigrant status
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