Direct Support Professional (CoStar)
Resources for Human Development
- Philadelphia, PA
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Direct Support Professional for RHD's Co Star advocates for and advises people in recovery (PIR) in their home and in the community; while teaching and assisting with skills building in relationship to residential, educational, vocational, social, recreational, spiritual, and self-maintenance domains, by performing the following duties.Resources for Human Development is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, veteran, or disability status.Responsibilities/Duties
- Assists Individuals with maintaining households, such as changing bed linens, washing and ironing, laundry, and cleaning quarters.
- Provides individuals with assistance while purchasing, preparing, and serving nutritious foods.
- Provides assistance in following special or prescribed diets.
- Provides assistance dressing, bathing, and grooming self.
- Supervises the self-administration of prescribed oral medications under written prescription of Physician.
- Supports individuals with traveling outside of the home.
- Assists individuals with finding and involving self in daily activities that provide meaning to his/her life
- Explains fundamental recovery principles and renders bedside care to individuals who are ill.
- Participates in evaluating needs of Program participants, and confers with family members, case managers, and others in Program participant’s support network to plan for continuing and additional services.
- Performs variety of miscellaneous duties as requested, such as assisting Program participants in obtaining household supplies and other needs.
- Maintains records of services performed and of apparent condition of PIR.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to read routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of participants or employees of organization.
- All employees must possess and maintain a current driver’s license
- Ability to add, subtracts, multiply, and divides in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Must have a valid driver's license.
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