Residential Skilled Care DSP – MYEP | Mayor's Youth Empowerment Program

Residential Skilled Care DSP

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Job Description

Residential DSP’s provide direct support to adults with disabilities in their home and community.

Skilled Care Supports

Candidates must be willing to provide all listed supports to males and females.
Candidates must be willing to learn/learn all of the supports and cares related to the following.
- Utilizing equipment to lift & transfer individuals
- tracheostomies
- diabetic management
- Stoma Cares
- Incontinence & toileting routines
- Catheter Cares
- Ostomy Cares
- Aggressive behavior
- Mental Health
- Supplemental Oxygen Therapy
- G-Tubes/Feeding Tubes
- Respiratory Cares

Responsibilities

Assisting individuals with personal and oral hygiene including; bathing & showering, incontinence cares, personal grooming, teeth brushing, applying deodorant, utilizing suctioning, dressing and undressing, stoma cares, etc.
Assisting individuals with getting in and out of bed utilizing transfers, 2-person transfers, over head lifts, and manual lifts.
Performing basic movement exercises including physical therapy and Range of Motion routines.
Preparing and serving meals and assisting individuals with eating.
Monitoring and documenting food, water, and medication intake.
Monitoring and reporting any behavior, health, or vital statistic changes.
Assisting individuals with mobility including; pushing wheelchairs, assistance with power wheelchairs, assistance with walking utilizing a walker, utilizing gait belts for walking assistance, transfers to and form sitting to standing positions, etc.
Ability to provide supports and services to multiple individuals at one time.

Shifts Available:

a. 3pm – 10pm

b. 10pm – 8am (Awake Overnight)