Job Description
Job Description
The Direct Support Professional is responsible for a variety of duties that support clients in their home as well as out in the community. These duties, depending on the program the client is on, include:
- Assisting clients with daily personal tasks, including bathing and dressing
- Completing housekeeping tasks such as vacuuming, washing dishes and tidying
- Helping plan client appointments and organize a schedule
- Organizing with transportation arrangements to appointments
- Shopping for groceries and preparing meals that meet specific client dietary needs
- Encouraging client engagement in social networks and communities
- Meet with clients, one on one, in their homes on a regularly scheduled basis
- Overnight assistance and supervision provided in the client’s own home
- Support clients through creative, thoughtful, problem-solving
- Understand and work to follow through with support plan goals
- Timely completion of documentation of activities and progress as directed by supervisor
- Clear and professional communication with clients, Field Coordinators, and members of the support team
Qualifications and Skills:
- 18 years of age or older
- Valid Minnesota Driver’s License with acceptable record (non-driving roles also available).
- Ability to pass DHS background study.
- Passion for serving our clients.
- Commitment to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion with focus on culturally responsive practice, internal self-awareness, and reflection
- Attention to detail, especially when adhering to specific protocols and rules while carefully following instructions to care for the needs of the client
- Integrity to ensure clients feel safe and comfortable when tending to personal activities such as helping them bathe
- Trustworthiness and dependability so clients and their families feel comfortable relying on them
- Interpersonal skills when working with clients, including having compassion and being sensitive to their emotional needs when they are in extreme distress or pain
- Physical stamina when performing tasks such as lifting or turning their clients
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
- 4 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- 10 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Every weekend
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Night shift
- Overnight shift