Job Description

Mercy Home for Children is looking to hire Direct Support Professionals in one of our Brooklyn Residences. Bring your positive can do attitude, compassion, care and enthusiasm to work with our people with disabilities. Minimum requirements: High School Diploma or a GED. Valid & Unrestricted N.Y.S. Driver’s License. We offer paid training to learn the field and to provide opportunities to build a career in the human services field.

Requirements

Here's some of the job duties:

• Support the people we serve through teaching them to be the most independent in their self-help-skills, to include bathing, dressing, cooking, eating, housekeeping, laundry, and toileting. Assisting the consumer to strengthen and develop communication and socialization skills.
• To be fully aware of the goals/outcomes of each person you are working with, and consistently and conscientiously work to achieve individualized valued outcomes.
• To record daily on required goals, baselines, logs (including medical charts) and other reports as instructed (incident reports, as necessary).
• To assist and develop fine motor coordination, and gross motor skills through various activities and exercises.
• Ensure the safety and welfare at all times, at home and in the community.
• Encourage various modes of communication that support the development of meaningful relationships including the modeling of appropriate behavior to persons served and community involvement and inclusion.
• Implement daily schedules, including all routines and life skills activities as directed by a supervisor or written in the plan.
• Ability to encourage self-advocacy or to advocate as needed.
• Ensure the health and safety, while assisting residents to achieve increased independence.
• Perform job-related tasks as assigned, to include attendance and participation at meetings and training as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.
• We will obtain a copy of your covid vaccine card.