Direct Support Professional Relief – REN014 – On-Call

Job Details

Job Location
Renaissance Residence – Brooklyn, NY

Position Type
Per Diem (Relief)

Education Level
High School

Salary Range
$17.47 – $17.47 Hourly

Job Shift
Any

Job Category
Nonprofit – Social Services

Direct Support Professional Relief – REN014 – On-Call

Position Summary: Provide all aspects of care to program participants to enable them to become independent and productive individuals. This position may have supervised / unsupervised contact and or conversational interaction with consumers while working in the residences, day treatments and habilitation facilities.
Essential Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for asserting in the planning, developing and implementation of goals and training to further develop participants skills including but not limited to:

• budgeting
• grooming
• nutritional planning
• use of public transportation
• use of community resources
• shopping
• housekeeping
• physical health & development
• adaptive behavior/independent living
• nutrition
• vocational development
• social development

Monitor participant’s progress. Tasks essential to this duty include, but are not limited to: seeing, hearing and observing clients, performing manual tasks, reading and writing (documentation), lifting, climbing and descending stairs, traveling, boarding and de-boarding agency vehicles and public transportation vehicles (i.e. bus, subway). Provide training in ADL and other areas. May be required to perform these for individuals requiring assistance. Use of telephone to make and receive calls.

1. Responsible to coordinate evacuation and ensure resident safety in actual emergencies (i.e. fire drills). Essential functions of this duty include the ability to climb and descend fire escapes and assist others to do the same. This may include both verbal and physical prompting.
2. Supervise and monitor residents self-administration of medication.

Abilities required include: reading, writing, communication, observation for side effects, monitoring medical conditions including manual tasks such as: taking blood pressure, temperature, blood sugar levels.

1. Responsible for crisis intervention and incident reporting procedures.
2. Responsible for monitoring and recording participant’s progress on daily checklists, any behavior contracts quarterly summaries, monthly goal forms and progress notes, family contact log, monthly daily recreation reports, clothing and personal effects inventory.
3. Meet routinely with participants and management team to review goal progress, identify participant needs, and update program plan.
4. Assist participants in planning and follow through on or escort individuals to evening and weekend recreational activities. Participating in moderate physical activities as part of recreation program.
5. Monitor and assist planning of daily activities and events.
6. Check and assist participants in dressing appropriately each day.
7. Attend all scheduled staff meetings, mandatory in-service training sessions, quarterlies, and annual meetings within residence and day program.

In order to attend staff meetings and trainings, staff must be available to participate in these programs at various sites and at varying times. The ability to complete the following training courses and perform the techniques taught in each are a required function of the position: AMAP, CPR and First Aid.

1. Communicate relevant information to other staff and supervisor(s), verbally and in writing, i.e.; daily communication log, telephone log, incident reports, medication incidents and behavior incidents.
2. Act as a role model for consumers.
3. Maintain participant records and confidentiality of such records.
4. Ensure/assist/supervise lunch preparation and clean up chores.
5. Prepare participants’ lunches and participate in family style dining with participants.
6. Assist participants in clothing care (laundry, ironing, repairs).
7. Participate actively as a member of inter-disciplinary program planning team.
8. Must be able to read typed/written correspondence, clinical notes, communication log, staff meeting minutes, doctors orders, fire drill logs, able to write, able to use the telephone.
9. Able to lift/carry packages and boxes of supplies; as well as clients if necessary.
10. Follow-up on any aftercare/recommendations for treatment. Escort/accompany participant as needed on appointments (medical, psychiatric).
11. Assist participants in researching and obtaining community resources appropriate and applicable to their needs and goals.
12. Work schedules and locations are subject to change.
13. Maintain confidentiality at all times.
14. This does not limit the assignment of duties or exclude the performance of other duties, not mentioned, as assigned by supervisor.

Direct Support Professional Relief – REN014 – On-Call

High School Diploma or equivalent required. New York State driver’s license and access to a vehicle required. (This requirement may be waived for DCCs or Relief staff that will not be driving agency vehicles)