Direct Support Professional I-74532907

Job Description

Job Description

Location

Bronx 10467

Schedule

Sunday-Thursday 11pm-7 : 30am | Full-time Overnight | 40 hours

Essential Job Functions with a disability to perform the essential duties unless this causes undue hardship to the agency.)

DSP provide observations, evaluations, and reports to other team members to ensure and / or record an individual’s progress toward treatment / habilitation goals. In accordance with habilitative plans, they guide and teach individuals to develop skills required for a more independent lifestyle. Incumbents may take a lead role in one or more of the following duties within a work site. Duties may be performed in several or all of the following areas :

Personal Care

• Teaches and reinforces accepted infection control and personal grooming techniques; assists in bathing, dental care, hair and nail care, personal hygiene, toileting, incontinence care, menstrual care, and grooming routines as necessary.
• Teaches and assists individuals in dressing, clothing selection, storage, laundering and repair of clothing and accessories; helps them to shop for clothing.
• Teaches and assists in proper use and care of shavers and razors, eyeglasses, hearing aids, prostheses as prescribed by appropriate medical practitioner.
• Administers and teaches individuals first aid treatments; administers cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques and performs other health-related techniques as required.
• Takes, records, reports temperatures, blood pressures, pulse rate, weight, and other significant symptoms / health-related occurrences; aids developmentally disabled individuals in understanding, recording, and reporting such factors.
• Maintains confidentiality of information.
• Reports unusual incidents and physical or behavioral symptoms promptly and accurately to the supervisor.
• Applies valid and accepted limits for inappropriate behavior and helps control and restrain individuals with challenging behaviors in their care.
• Administers prescribed medications and treatments; teaches, observes, reports problems and progress in self-administration of medications programs; assists individuals in achieving more independence in administration of medications; teaches use of skin care lotions, topical ointments, eye and ear drops and assists in their use as needed.
• Accompanies individuals to medical, dental, and other health-related appointments; delivers prescriptions to pharmacy, takes medication to home site and logs same; and instructs and observes individuals in use of those substances.

Food Preparation, Mealtimes

Maintaining the Environment

Under the direction of the appropriate level supervisor, the DSP performs various tasks and duties to assure that the living environment is properly maintained and kept in a clean, neat and orderly condition.

Individual Development, Personal Interests

Participating as Program Planning Team Member

Communication

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Qualifications and Experience

Preferred Education and / or Experience