Now Hiring: Direct Support Professionals
Average hours per week: 30 hours
Provides in-home and community based services for persons with disabilities by performing the duties listed on the attached performance evaluation.
Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years of age
- Satisfactorily pass Criminal History Background Check
- Provide proof of current drivers license and auto insurance
- Be able to pass drug screening at any point of employment
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:
- Working knowledge of assisting people with disabilities (after two week on the job training course)
- Strong organizational skills
- Effective communication skills, both written and oral
Physical, mental, special demands and working conditions:
- The employee is regularly required to sit
- Must be able to use hands and fingers, handle, or feel
- Must be able to reach with hands and arms
- Must be able to talk and hear
- Must be able to occasionally stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
- Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds
Machines, tools, equipment:
- Telephone and voicemail system
- Copy machines and/or printers
- Other office equipment for special projects
- Be able to utilize a PC