Essential Duties and Responsibilities

 

• Plan, monitor, evaluate and report all needs for assigned clients. Maintain a working knowledge of the client’s profile and desired outcomes.

 

• Exercise and teach disaster protocols such as life, safety, and fire protection (including Evacuation Plan) procedures; accident/incident reporting; OSHA regulations; care of the elderly and cognitively impaired clients.

 

• Assist individuals in evacuating buildings during emergency situations to include but not be limited to fire drills and external disaster drills. Specific duties to be assigned by immediate supervisor.

 

• Maintain compliance with the company policies and procedures.

 

• Provide direct supervision in the facility and community.

 

• Provide skills training for clients with a positive and creative approach. Skills training could include but is not limited to interaction skills, social skills, grooming, and community safety skills, planning skills, volunteering, daily living, socialization, community involvement, and community resource skills.

 

• Support clients with personal needs as required, medication management, toileting, personal hygiene care.

 

• Supervise the clients on and off-site.

 

• Assist with organization and set up of the day program environment, preparing needed materials and supplies.

 

• Participate and support clients in wheelchairs in social outings both in-facility and in the community.

 

• Act as a role model of appropriate behaviors for clients in various community settings.

 

• Arrange for transportation to and from community outings with floor supervisor.

 

• Schedule community activities/sites for clients as needed per the client’s plan.

 

• Support clients with developing goals, assessing their individual needs, and working toward their desired outcomes.

 

• Monitor and document client’s progression toward outcomes and goal achievement.

 

• Maintain active communication with all internal team members and with all of the client’s support team.

 

• Provide adaptations to individualized activities and group programming as necessary to teach goal skills. 

 

• Attend all team meetings, providing feedback and solutions as applicable to quality program development.

 

• Complete all documentation as required (i.e., Incident reports, case notes, quarterly reports, assessments, communication logs, etc.). Reporting information to a supervisor in a timely manner.

 

• Maintain confidentiality of client’s information, participate in all job-related training offered.

 

• Attend all training on a regular basis to ensure that all mandatory and personal training and development needs are met in line with company requirements.

 

• Perform related duties assigned as assigned by supervisor.