FT/PT DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL ADULT DISABILITY HOME/COMMUNITY SVC
Full Time • CROYDON
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Competitive salary
- Employee discounts
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Opportunity for advancement
- Profit sharing
- Training & development
You are applying for a role as a Certified Direct Support Professional for In-Home & Community Support for Adults with Disabilities. The role of a Direct Support Professional is complex and requires a specific set of skills and values. The following represents what to expect in one’s practice as a Direct Support Professional.
- Direct Support Professionals assist people who need support to lead self-directed lives and participate fully in their communities. Direct support professionals recognize the unique gifts, preferences and needs of each person supported.
- Direct Support Professionals recognize the personhood of people they support. They partner with them in making informed decisions and everyday choices about their finances, well-being, relationships, and employment. Direct Support Professionals will use knowledge, skills (competencies), and values (NADSP Code of Ethics) to guide their work and provide quality services. Direct Support Professionals continue to learn and develop their professional abilities through ongoing in-service and self-directed education and training.
- Direct support professionals understand that quality services occur at the point of interaction with the people that they support.
- Direct support professionals realize that their role includes being a mentor and a facilitator. Direct support professionals inform the people they support regarding their responsibilities and advocate with them for their valued role in society.
- Direct support professionals empower people they support to have meaningful relationships with friends, their families, and promote integration and inclusion in all our nation’s communities.
- Direct support professionals respect the privacy of the people they support and commit to promote their physical and emotional well-being.
- The following list of the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals Competencies will be used to evaluate, develop and educate direct support professionals;
o Participant Empowerment o Communication o Assessment
o Community and Service Networking o Facilitation of Services
o Community Living Skills and Supports
o Education, Training and Self-Development o Advocacy
o Vocational, Educational and Career Support o Crisis Prevention and Intervention
o Organizational Participation o Documentation
o Building and Maintaining Friendships and Relationships
o Person-Centered Supports o Supporting Health and Wellness
This position is for locations throughout Bucks County. We are looking for part time or full time team members to fill positions. We make every attempt to fit applicants with locations nearest their homes, to assigned cases that are right for them. Travel is a must. It takes tremendous effort to find quality team members who are professional and motivated for a good career. Only serious applicants will be considered. Our team is a close knit group who would love to welcome other highly motivated compassionate people who love what they do and who take care of the people we serve. Kindly demonstrate your professionalism in your desire to join our team.
Compensation: $18.50 - $21.00 per hour
Home and community based adult disability services agency. Umbrella FCST offers direct support professional services and behavioral health clinical team to individuals with Medicaid waivers.
Welcome to Umbrella Functional Consulting & Support Team
We are here to redefine inclusion by providing services to adults with different abilities, and also to the community.
A MESSAGE FROM THE OWNER:
Finding valuable quality support for people with autism and people with disabilities is scarce in our region of Pennsylvania. As a mother of a child with severe Autism and Pica, danger lurks everywhere and parental fear is immense. Questions about the future of our children when they become adults, and what that life will be like for them, as well as for us as parents, is left unanswered, or left to dreams we aspire to provide our adult children.
What will the adult lives of our children be like? Will our children stay with us for the remainder of our days? And then what? I have dedicated my life to the goal, to be the answer I look for in society.
~Maria Duerson, M.Ed., GCT ABA, LBS, CI
The Mission of Umbrella
Using evidence-based strategies in Applied Behavior Analysis, to support as many adults with autism and intellectual & developmental disabilities as possible, to be as independent as possible, and to provide supportive services to development of skills and positive behaviors to achieve life goals.
The Short Term Goal of Umbrella
To provide evidence-based supportive strategies to guide adults with Autism, and adults with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, to master skills and positive behaviors to be successfully independent in society.
The Long Term Goal of Umbrella
To create environments for which adults with autism and adults with intellectual & developmental disabilities can own their future in business, be a part of their communities, and be as independent as possible.
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