Direct Support Professional - Children's Services
Overnight Residential Assistant
Help Children Grow, Learn, and Thrive
At Grafton, we’re guided by a shared purpose: helping children with complex needs reach their full potential. As a Direct Support Professional in Child Services, your meaningful impact shines through the progress you see each day—building skills, confidence, and hope. You’ll work within a culture of teamwork and collaboration, supported by colleagues who share your passion for helping others. And because we care for you so you can care for others, we offer the training, support, and growth opportunities to help you flourish.
Join us — and experience the deep fulfillment of knowing your work truly makes a difference!
Be part of a team that leads with Heart & GRIT, the Grafton Way !
Under general supervision, Direct Support Professionals in our Children & Adolescence program, participate in the direct care and plan implementation for clients, as prescribed by physician and treatment teams. They support clients at bedtime and during morning hygiene, dressing and breakfast routines. They conduct and record, 15 minute health and safety checks after a client goes to bed. They provide supervision, safety and crisis management for the client population; complete documentation of client behavior and participation in programming; adhere to the scheduled activities; role model positive, mature behavior; utilize proactive behavioral strategies to minimize client crisis and maximize success. They report to a program supervisor/manager.
Individual Plan Implementation
Provides a Supportive and Solution–Focused Environment
Site Management – Housekeeping, Nutrition, Transportation, Finances
Teamwork and commitment to the mission, values and vision of Grafton
Minimum Qualifications:
AVAILABLE SCHEDULES:
COMPENSATION:
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS:
Caring for You, So You can Care for Others
Work & Life Harmony: Flexible scheduling and resources to help you thrive at work and at home.
Stronger Together: Supporting Your Growth & Success
If you require a reasonable accommodation or need assistance with the application or interview process please contact us at hr@grafton.org
Grafton is an equal employment opportunity employer and tobacco-free workplace.
Grafton Integrated Health Network partners with individuals, families and communities to solve complex behavioral health, wellness and human developmental challenges.
With nearly 60 years of clinical experience and evidence-based data in behavioral health and intellectual/developmental disabilities, Grafton is uniquely qualified to deliver improved outcomes.
The organization often accepts – and, based on clearly defined indicators, is successful with – the most challenging clients, many of whom have a co-occurring diagnosis. Grafton is at the forefront in working with individuals on the autism spectrum, having worked with this population throughout the past six decades.
Grafton’s multidisciplinary team — a group of committed and caring people with a broad base of knowledge in mental health care — is its greatest assets. Dozens of clinical, medical and academic specialties — including physicians, nurses, teachers, therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists and direct service professionals — are represented on the Grafton team. Our therapists have specialized training in areas including:
o Applied behavioral analysis;
o Attachment specialists;
o Certified sex offender treatment;
o Child and adolescent psychiatry;
o Cognitive behavioral therapy;
o Dialectical behavior therapy;
o Family therapy;
o Group therapy;
o High fidelity wraparound services;
o Motivational interviewing; and
o Trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy
