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in Charlestown, RI
Direct Care Professional - Full-time / Part-time
Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
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Location | Charlestown, RI Charlestown, Rhode Island |
About this job
NeuroRestorative Rhode Island offers Supported Living programs and community-based services for adults with brain injury and other neurological challenges. Located in Charlestown, both program settings provide individuals with opportunities to improve their daily living skills and successfully participate in home and community-based environments.
NeuroRestorative Rhode Island is a partner of The MENTOR Network, a national network of local human services providers offering quality, community-based services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families. With opportunities from coast to coast, when you join NeuroRestorative Rhode Island and The MENTOR Network, you’ll make a difference every day and help to provide quality of life enhancing services to individuals across the country.
Description
Every person needs the support of others, but we look for very special people to support adults with brain injury. As a Direct Care Professional/Life Skill Trainer with NeuroRestorative-RI you’ll be one of those special people.
NeuroRestorative-RI has many shifts available for Direct Care Professionals - full-time, part-time, per diem, overnight and other shifts as needed. We are seeking hard-working, dedicated people to provide training, assistance and supervision to MENTOR ABI Group participants in the areas of living skills, therapeutic recreation, and other forms of assistance in both residential & community settings. Assists with medical supervision. Facilitates working relationships between community employers and MENTOR ABI Group participants. Cooperate with MENTOR ABI and any state Department of Human Service staff in any inspection or investigation.
For NeuroRestorative-RI and The MENTOR Network the Direct Care Professional/Life Skills Trainer is one of the most exemplary reflections of the wonderful mission driven work we do here every day. The people that carry out this rewarding, care giving support play an integral and crucial role in the success of our organization.
To that end, the Life Skills Trainer also happens to be one of the best places to start in our company with a myriad of career options to move up and across the organization. We in fact have many success stories from people at all levels that started out in the Life Skills Trainer role.
Whether you have previous experience in this capacity or this just sounds like the type of career path you would like to pursue…we want to hear from you!
Qualifications
Requirements:
- High school diploma or GED
- Six months to one year of experience in the human services industry preferred
- Valid driver’s license from state of residence
Founded in 1980, The MENTOR Network is a national network of local human services providers offering an array of quality, community-based services in more than 30 states to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families.
EOE/AAE