Part-Time DSP (Crisis) - Woodbury Minnesota

Company: ResCare Community Living
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota
Posted On: 01/22/2025

Our Company

ResCare Community Living

Overview

ResCare Community Living - Direct Support Professional

Thank you for reviewing our Direct Support Professional position at ResCare Community Living. As a DSP, you play a crucial role in helping us provide compassionate care to our clients. At ResCare Community Living, our Direct Support Professionals are the heart of our company with their compassion, dependability and care.

Why Choose ResCare Community Living

• Great Company Culture
• Competitive Pay
• Employee Benefits; including Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• 401K
• Daily Pay Option Available
• Job Training
• Career Growth including Tuition Discounts
• Schedule Flexibility
  
  Responsibilities
  
  While no two days are exactly the same, here are some things you will be responsible for:
  
  • Performing personal care tasks, including feeding, ambulation, and medical monitoring
  • Assist with fostering positive relationships between individuals served and their housemates
  • Ensuring client safety and maintaining a safe environment
  • Encouraging self-help activities
  • Accompanying clients to scheduled appointments
    
    Qualifications
    
    
    • Must be 18 years of age or older
    • Must have a valid driver's license
    • Ability to work in a group home, home-like setting
    • Ability to communicate (verbally and written) with all levels of personnel, internal and external
      
      About our Line of Business
      
      ResCare Community Living has four decades of experience in the disability services field, providing support to individuals who need assistance with daily living due to an intellectual, developmental or cognitive disability. Our community living services are provided in 27 states with several thousand programs and a comprehensive range of high-quality services, including: Community Living, Adult Host Homes for adults regardless of disability, Behavioral/Mental Health Support, In-home Pharmacy Solutions, Telecare and Remote Support, Supported Employment and Training Programs, and Day programs. For more information, please visit www.rescarecommunityliving.com . Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn .
      
      Additional Job Information
      
      Our crisis homes provide support and supervision to person's served with disabilities and/or mental illness that need crisis intervention services and/or behavioral programs to rehabilitate/stabilize and transition person's served back to permanent housing.
      
      • Staff are required have 2 years experience working with individuals with the following: severe mental illness, crisis, physical interventions, and behavior supports.
      • Staff must be well trained and have at least 2 years expirience in using positive redirection and behavior modification programs.
      • The role of staff is to maintain safety and to support person served to allow them to be the best they can be, individually and/or within the community while reducing distress and providing a purpose in their lives.
      • Implement formal/informal crisis plans, program plans and/or behavioral objectives using person-centered planning.
      • Maintain documentation, record keeping and participate in regular meetings and complete required training.
      • Take initiative when responding to a crisis, monitor the safety of person's served, and provide support and supervision in a positive therapeutic manner with the least restrictive methods of positive intervention.
      • Enable person's served to make choices in all areas of their lives. Encourage use of public resources and recreational facilities; provide community integration opportunities.
      • Provide transportation for appointments and activities.
        
        Salary Range
        
        USD $23.00 / Hour More...

            

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