Supportive Living Companion

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION

The Supportive Living Companion works under immediate supervision, provides individually tailored services and activities within the consumer's home and community; ensures services are delivered as designed to assist in acquiring, retaining, and improving the consumer's self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills and activities that relate directly to active treatment, goals, and objectives; reports incidents to appropriate contact(s);completes activity logs that occur during the work time frame as linked to the person centered plan objectives; provides other documents as required; and maintains compliance with required personnel documents.

TUESDAY-FRIDAY, 5 : 00PM-10 : 00PM (11520 / TM)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides services and activities to the consumer within their home and community as determined by goals and objectives in a person centered plan.
• Trains and supports individual in independent living skills, home management skills, cooking, cleaning, socialization, including supported employment in the community, and other identified skills needed to foster independence.
• Follows procedures within 24 hours for incidents identified according to Department of Human Services policy.
• Completes activity logs that occur during the work time frame as identified within the person centered plan objectives.
• For any change affecting the individual, reports, as applicable, any change affecting the individual receiving services.
• If necessary, ensures the consumer is reminded when it is necessary to take and / or refill medication.
• Completes and provides documents as required.
• Meets initial and on-going annual training requirements.
• Maintains compliance with required personnel documents.
• Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

High School diploma or GED;

One (1) Year of relevant, supervised work experience with public health, human services or other community service agency; OR

Two (2) years' verifiable successful experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities.

CNA Certification or Medical Assistant certification will qualify for a special entry rate.

Additionally, all Supported Living Companions hired after 11 / 01 / 07 must have the following :

MUST BE ABLE TO PASS APPLICABLE BACKGROUND CHECKS AND DRUG SCREEN.  ANY OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT WILL BE BASED ON THE RESULTS OF BACKGROUND CHECKS AND DRUG SCREEN.