Who We Are: Richmond Community Services is a nonprofit organization that has been serving the needs of individuals with intellectual, developmental disabilities, and behavioral health needs. For nearly 50 years, our Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) have been providing compassion, love, and support to our residents and their families. We are an extended network of trained professionals, dedicated support staff, volunteers, caregivers, and donors.

What We Believe: We support adults with varying needs to lead meaningful lives. We believe that everyone deserves to live with dignity and pride. Our home-like settings at various Westchester locations enable our residents to grow and flourish while enjoying recreational and community activities.

What We Do: Together with knowledge, technology, medical, educational, and rehabilitative resources we empower the individuals we support to maximize their abilities, often beyond expectations. Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) play a central role in providing assistance, safety, and care to help our residents reach their goals.

Essential Job Functions:

• Implement strategies contained within behavior intervention plans identified through functional behavior assessments.
• Implement Applied Behavior Analysis. These services are designed to meet specific therapeutic needs based on individualized annual plans, goals, and objectives.
• Provide training, advocacy, needs assessment, and treatment to individuals served. Manage a schedule for individuals served to obtain services, such as medical care, therapeutic recreation, living skills, and community integration.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary clinical team to lead to the development and implementation of individualized comprehensive treatment plans that provide for individual counseling, group therapy, nutrition, medical, recreational, and social programming.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary educational team to lead to the development and implementation of individualized education plans that provide for individual educational support to include, but not limited to, differentiated instruction, adaptive services such as speech therapy, vocational training, and life skills instruction.
• Teach lessons on of daily living skills. This may include, but is not limited to medication administration, exercise and nutrition training, community integration, human rights advocacy, social and life-skills training, as well as educational and life planning.
• Assists and actively participates in all aspects of the Individual Service Plan (ISP) or Comprehensive Functional Assessment (CFA). Ensures resident’s plan of care is implemented. Responsible for documentation of residents’ goals.
• Transports by driving the agency vehicle (cars, minivans, buses) and/or accompanies individuals on appointments or scheduled activities. Ensures wheelchairs are secure by using straps and hook ups as trained.
• Assist and/or supports daily living skills (e.g. personal hygiene, food preparation, housekeeping, laundry, shopping). Ensure that residents are appropriately dressed at all times.
• Advocates for or provides support to individuals in their home and while in the community (medical appointments, church, recreation activities etc). Provides support as needed and maintains safety for individuals served while accompanying them on outside health related appointments (ensures no HIPPA violations) or recreational activities.
• Facilitates learning and skill training in fire safety. Safely evacuates individuals who cannot do it independently.
• Correctly applies or assists in the application of personal adaptive equipment. Reports all damaged, missing or defective adaptive equipment or environmental safety hazards to a Supervisor/Manager or a Nurse.
• Reports immediately to a Supervisor, Manager, QIDP, BIS or Nurse any suspicion of verbal, physical, psychological, sexual abuse or neglect of individuals served. Comply with Mandated Reporter status.
• Reads data/documentation (Electronic Medical Record and Medication Administration Record) and reports errors or missing data to the Supervisor/Manager and writes appropriate data during the assigned shift.
• Applies knowledge and skills gained through required training that takes place after orientation and buddying process.

o Medication administration/G-tube training

o Cardio-pulmonary-resuscitation prevention (CPR)

o First Aid

o Strategies for Crisis Intervention & Prevention- Revised (SCIP-R)

• Performs assigned household chores, which includes but is not limited to, cooking, cleaning, laundry, food shopping, and maintenance related duties performed both inside and outside of the residence. In Group homes this may include shoveling path from doorways and cleaning snow/ice from vehicles
• Assists in maintaining an inventory of residents’ clothing and personal effects on a routine basis in order to ensure that individuals are properly clothed.
• May be requested to participate in the resolution of crisis management. Required to report all incidents, both verbally and in writing to the supervisor/manager.
• Will be required to perform bed checks, rounds and repositioning of residents every two (2) hours, or as determined to be necessary by individual plan, or as assigned.
• May be assigned other tasks and duties reasonably related to their job responsibilities.

What's Required:

Education:

BS/BA required. Degree must be in one of the following areas: Education, Psychology, Sociology or Social Work. No waiver will be permitted for these requirements.

Experience:

A minimum of one year of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities preferred.

Other:

• Must be 21 years of age or older.
• Must have valid and clean drivers’ license for at least 3 years and successfully complete and maintain Richmond Driver Authorization highly preferred

Salary based on experience - $17 - $19.99 per hour

Richmond Community Services requires all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Accommodations will be granted only in circumstances where they do not cause Richmond Community Services undue hardship or pose a direct threat to the health and safety of others

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