Direct Support Specialist - Adult Abilities Center
Job Description
Job Description
Description : Job Highlights
Job Highlights
- Shift : Various day shifts available, no weekends!
- Unit : Adult Abilities Center
- Pay : Starting at $17 / hour
- Rate increases based upon years of experience
- Retention Sign-on : $750
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Job Summary & Deliverables
The Direct Support Specialist provides evidence-based practices to develop clients’ individual skills in providing supported services across life, social, and job skill areas as indicated by the person-centered support plan to meet individualized goals.
The Direct Support Specialist is responsible for utilizing evidence-based practices, meeting fiscal responsibilities, and ensuring that regulatory and organizational standards are met.
Essential Functions
- Utilizes information gathered from the person-centered process to identify client strengths and weaknesses and develops collaborative goals with each client and their family for lifelong learning
- Develops client’s individual skills in providing supported services across life, social, and job skill areas
- Uses evidence-based practices to teach pre-employment and employment skills in clinical settings
- Assists clients with self-help / independence skills which can include toileting, feeding, and basic hygiene routines
- Works cohesively with treatment team to ensure the delivery of high quality support and care
- Assists with facilitating a safe and developmentally-focused environment in the center and community
- Develops data collection tools, collects data, and enters into online data collection system to document client progress
- Completes required documentation in Electronic Health System
Benefits
- Medical, dental (including orthodontics), and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account with a company match
- Family Building benefits
- 401(k) with a 5% company match
- Insurance plans including life insurance, short and long-term disability, accident, critical illness, auto and home, and pet insurance
- Time off including 15 days of accrued PTO (accrual increases by one day for each year of service), 10 paid holidays, and 2 wellness days
- 10 days of Paid Parental Leave for all new parents for birth or adoption
- Volunteer paid time
- Employee Assistance Program and discounted mental health therapy
- Education Assistance including tuition, new license, specialized training, and conference reimbursement, student loan assistance, continuing education reimbursement, and paid training time.
- Ongoing in-house clinical training with Valley Academy
- Scheduling flexibility and benefits coverage for part-time, 30-hour / week status
- Career growth opportunities within Valley’s diverse clinical programs, or with our operations or administrative teams
Requirements :
High School diploma or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications :
- Experience providing job coaching skills to adult clients with disabilities