DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL - Dickinson

Description

Join our Team!

If you enjoy helping others, then this is the place for you to start your career! Community Options has a current opportunity within the Residential department as a Direct Support Professional (DSP). This position works closely with our customers to deliver superior services, such as cooking, cleaning, shopping, and transportation. In addition, the role supports our customers with their health, wellness, and personal care.

Who are we?

Are you passionate about making a difference in people's lives? Look no further! Community Options is excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Direct Support Professional (DSP). In this fulfilling role, you'll closely engage with the developmentally disabled and elderly, providing them with essential services like cooking, cleaning, shopping, and transportation. You'll also play a crucial role in supporting their health, wellness, and personal care needs.

Why Community Options?

• Health insurance starting at $100/month* (individual plan)
• Vision and dental insurance
• Paid leave time
• Paid Holidays
• 401k
• Life insurance
• Rewarding work impacting the lives of those you serve!

The hourly wage for this position is $16 - $19 an hour, depending on experience (DOE).

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least eighteen (18) years of age
• High school diploma or GED equivalent
• Access to working mobile phone (iPhone/ Android)
• CPR and First Aid certification, or ability to obtain successfully during new hire training period
• A valid driver’s license, acceptable driving record, reliable transportation, and proof of insurance for the vehicle subject to the statute of the licensing state and the ability to travel based on operational and clientele needs
• Successfully pass a criminal background check, including Motor Vehicle Record (MVR), drug screening, and ND Department of Human Service (DHS) pre-employment approval
• Completion of training as required by Community Options

Must possess certain basic skills, including the ability to:

• Accurately observe and recall surroundings and events
• Communicate information, concisely, and accurately
• Read, write, understand, and apply written instructions in English
• Complete basic computer-related tasks
• Make ethical and professional decisions
• Organize and manage tasks
• Provide quality customer service
• Work as part of a team
• Commitment to company values

Other Skills and Experience:

• Team player; good organizational and communication skills
• Knowledge of community events and opportunities for customers

Reporting to this position: None

Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.  Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, employees are required to have the ability to climb (stairs), balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach (above shoulder), bend, twist, sit, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, grasp, fine motor manipulation, talk, hear, and complete repetitive motions; swimming may be required. Must occasionally lift and/or move objects weighing up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Employees may be subject to working with customers who exhibit behaviors that would require the employee to use possible physical de-escalation techniques
• Work Environment: Employees work in indoor and/or outdoor environments, i.e., office, home, or community setting. Employees are required to operate a motor vehicle and travel as deemed necessary. Assigned work shifts and locations will vary depending on the customers’ and/ or agency's needs.

NOTE: The duties listed are not intended to be all-inclusive. Responsibilities assigned to any individual employee are at the discretion of the appointing authority.

The employee is expected to adhere to all department policies and to act as a role model in the adherence to policies

Equal Employment Opportunity

Community Options does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, genetics, religion, age, or disability in employment or the provisions of services and complies with the provisions of the North Dakota Human Rights Act.