Youth Support Specialist

Direct Support Professionals Locations :

• Manhattan, The Bronx, Westchester About the Role : The Direct Support Professional works with children and adolescents in a residential treatment setting and is responsible for ensuring that those portions of the treatment plan, which deal with day-to-day and independent living skills, are implemented.
• Acting as a positive role model and providing therapeutic parenting, the Direct Support Professional is charged with the fundamental responsibility of the client's health and safety.
• Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) are caring, positive role models who work one-on-one or in small groups to help people of all ages lead safe, full, and independent lives.
• As a Direct Support Professional with The Jewish Board, you’ll be a teacher, a mentor, a role model, and a friend, helping the people you work with achieve a great quality of life.
• Your client could be anyone from a child who is in the foster care system, to a young adult living with ongoing mental health issues, to an adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• You’ll work to support them in a caring manner, in everything from daily routines such as making plans with friends, to joining community events, to grocery shopping and cooking, to participating in recreational activities, and building skills around personal care and relationships.
• Being a DSP is not just a job – it’s an amazing opportunity to help others thrive.

QUALIFICATIONS :

All employees are required to attend appropriate restraint training prior to performing such a restraint Drive the child to medical, social or other necessary appointments or assist in returning clients to the campus who are AWOL Shares their experience and observation of the children under care with the treatment team and immediately brings to the attention of the supervisor any unusual issues May be required to cook / prepare meals for residents within their division Other assigned duties as assigned CORE COMPETENCIES :

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