Direct Support Professional (Shoreham) - Part-time

Overview: p style="margin-left: .5in;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"An Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) is a community based home that provides clinical and supportive care to people with ID/DD. People living in an ICF typically require long term care, and have a higher level of need related to medical or behavioral complexities. Clinical supports are provided on-site through an interdisciplinary team process. An ICF is regulated by the NYS Department of Health through an annual auditing process by the Office of People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD)./span/p Responsibilities: p style="margin: 0px;"Primary duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pullispan style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"Assists resident with personal hygienic needs by washing, toileting, feeding and showering to ensure that residents maintain good personal hygiene and to enhance their independence. strongIf applicable, transport residents to medical appointments/strong.  Performs light housekeeping tasks to ensure facilities are clean for residents. /span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"Implements resident specific programs by following the goal book outline to ensure independence and life goals for residents/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"Assists residents in adhering to prescribed diets by ensuring correct portions are dispensed to ensure maintenance of ideal weight range./span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"If qualified, (AMAP certified), administers medication and medical procedures by following prescriptions and doctors' orders to insure proper medications and treatments given to residents/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"Maintains safety of each resident by on-going supervision and by utilizing safety techniques and adaptive equipment to protect resident from injury/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"Provides ongoing supervision at all times by being in close physical proximity to residents to insure the residents' safety and well-being/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"Implements recreational activities by assisting residents in arts and crafts, playing tapes, setting out board games, playing basketball, etc. to meet residents' recreational needs/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"Serves as a member of the inter-disciplinary team by attending and participating in all meetings to discuss residents' progress and goal achievements and to offer and gather resident specific information and ideas/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"Purchases clothing, grooming, and other personal items to meet residents daily living needs and to fulfill residents' requests to ensure appropriate appearance of resident/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"If applicable, trains new employees by covering training manual and demonstrating direct care skills to insure new employee is sufficiently prepared to handle position/span/lilispan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"Performs additional duties as requested by supervisor/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;" /p Qualifications: ullispan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"High School Diploma or Equivalent preferred. /span/lilispan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"Qualified aNYS driver’s license required and maintained throughout employment and must meet agency insurance requirements/span/lilispan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" Six (6) months experience working with DDI population preferred.  Ability to understand written and oral directives/information/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"Physical aspects may include but are not limited to lifting and transferring of an adult/child participant./span/span/p