Position: Direct Support Professional
Location: Oakdale, CT and surrounding towns
Schedule: Mornings, afternoons, and evenings schedules available
Pay: $20/hour
Job Description/Job Summary (subject but not limited to):
- Supporting individuals with activities of daily living (dressing, cooking, cleaning, bathing,
- toileting, laundry, etc.)
- All household chores
- Transporting individuals (as needed or required by specific facilities)
- Organizing activities
- Client checks and monitoring
- Medication administration (only if you have a current MED certification)
- Doctors’ appointments
- Properly documenting per facility requirements
- Occasional lifting
- Teaching and engaging
- Implementing good routines
- Grocery shopping and running errands (as needed or required by specific facilities)
- Deescalating situations and managing behaviors
- Workings as part of a collective team with each facility working at
- Communicating professionally with Nurses, Clinical Staff, Directors, and Supervisors at each facility
- Communicating with United Hiring Solutions and reporting any issues, concerns, etc. immediately
- Other duties as assigned or needed by the facility
Qualifications
- High School Diploma
- Experience working within group homes or similar setting
- Certifications- CPR and PMT
- Satisfactory background and driving record check
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $20.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 4 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Weekends as needed
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
Experience:
- working within group homes or similar setting: 1 year (Preferred)
- DSP: 1 year (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- CPR (Required)
- PMT (Required)
Ability to Commute:
Work Location: In person