FULL-TIME DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL (DSP)/CAREGIVER
$36,400–$36,400 year
On-siteGastonia, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Provide daily support and teaching for individuals in the home and community, ensuring they follow individual schedules and participate in activities like meals, transportation, and house meetings. Manage household accounts, maintain personal property, and prepare meals according to specialized diets while documenting all events and incidents accurately. Administer medications after certification and ensure compliance with confidentiality rules and emergency procedures. Maintain a professional demeanor, communicate promptly with supervisors, and participate in program plan meetings and facility surveys. This 24/7 residential role requires lifting, pulling, and bending, with potential overnight hours and travel.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or the equivalent
- Completion of all required documentation in a thorough and timely manner
- Daily documentation of out of the ordinary events or episodes which might affect the person's life
- Maintenance of the household checking account, the household's petty cash accounts, and individual person served accounts in accordance with established procedures
- Accurate completion of incident reports
- Familiarity with group home forms and demonstrated proper use of these forms
- Completion of monthly and/or quarterly progress notes as assigned
- Insure that the human and civil rights of the people served are respected and defended at all times and in all places
- Compliance with confidentiality rules and regulations both concerning transmittal of person served information and household information, as well as all licensure regulations
- Familiarity with the policies and procedures of Gaston Residential Services
- Working knowledge of emergency procedures
- Prompt reports of significant events, problems, and information to supervisors
- Participation in daily transition of information with other staff/supervisors
- Communication of significant information during program plan meeting and medical appointments
- Conduct all communication in a professional and courteous manner
- Respond to the needs of the people served including following their individual daily schedules
- Provide safe, punctual transportation of the people served to work, professional appointments, and recreation and leisure activities
- Assist the people served to participate in the scheduled house meeting
- Encourage the person to choose their recreational and leisure time activities, such as swimming, horseback riding, etc. and provide support with participation
- Assure that people served are actively engaged in all aspects of daily living
- Purchasing, preparation, serving, and documentation of meals according to the menu plan and individual specialized diets
- General maintenance and cleaning of the home and vehicle(s)
- Assist the people served to maintain their personal property in good order
- Assure that the people are dressed appropriately according to the activity planned and the weather expected for the day
- Use of good judgment, with the needs of the person served as the primary concern
- Working knowledge of each person's program plan
- Demonstrates the ability to complete goals/objectives as written in the persons plan
- Demonstrates the ability to integrate the teaching of goals/objectives in all aspects of the person's life
- After medication administration certification, administer and record medications
- Participation in all required classes, whether that class is during regularly scheduled working hours or not
- Respect for other staff on the team
- Available to participate in any facility survey
- Ability to lift, pull, push and bend throughout the day
- Follow GRS back safety procedures at all times
- Ability to work overnight hours
- Ability to travel outside of the local area
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