Direct Support Professionals - New Glen Oaks, Queens Residence (35147)

Birch Family Services is a leading provider of education, employment, and community support services for individuals with autism and developmental disabilities and their families in New York City. Every year, the organization supports more than 2,000 people across 31 locations in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. From preschool to graduation, employment, housing, and beyond, Birch Family Services provides fully integrated programs and services to support individuals in achieving their goals across their lifetime.

Help us open new community residences supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Cambria Heights / Glen Oaks, Queens! Bring your compassion, empathy, and desire to help people lead fulfilling lives to an opportunity right in your neighborhood.

As a Direct Support Professional you will counsel, assist and train individuals with developmental disabilities in the areas of personal care, travel skills, social skills, home management and life skills in order to maximize their functioning in the community.

Birch’s soon-to-open Cambria Heights and Glen Oaks residences offer:

• 3 and 4 day full time work weeks!

• Supportive supervision and training!

• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits for qualifying positions!

• HOURLY RATES FROM $22 TO $24/HOUR!!!!*

*Hourly rates depend on education and experience. Newly hired staff may start at another Birch residence until the new facilities open. Hourly rates will be between $18.54 - $22.37/hour until transferred to Cambria Heights or Glen Oaks residence.

Responsibilities:

Support the individual by supporting a comfortable home environment. Examples include but are not limited to:

• Provide safe and clean environment for the individual based on skill level and risks and support the safety of all individuals in everyday situations.

• Use verbal and physical means to create a positive environment that will encourage and enable individual growth.

• Using a holistic approach, participate in the individual’s life planning activities and assist in their implementation.

• Assist the individual in the development of social skills that will help the individual become integrated/ included in his or her community.

• Perform protective oversight while engaging in community activities.

• Monitor each individual’s personal health on a continuous basis (during situations of high activity, while bathing/showering/swimming, in the morning and the evening, at meals, while in the community, at all times).

• Assist individuals in learning and practicing skills necessary for home living (indoor household chores such as, but not limited to, cooking, sweeping, dusting, bed-making, vacuuming, and dish-washing, laundry, folding and storing clothes, etc.).

• Provide opportunities for the individual to be self-advocate.

• Perform advocate responsibilities, while demonstrating respect for the processes and people involved.

• Responsible for all documentation related to the essential function and services for the individual.

• Adhere to the procedures for mandated reporting and responding.

• Adhere to the NADSP code of ethics.

• Work towards the satisfactory completion of each of the core competency goals according to the OPWDD timeline requirements.