Job Description

Position: Relief Staff - Residential

Reports to: Director of Residential Services

Hours: Per-diem/as needed

Location: Residential/Cornell Rd

Triangle's Expectation of Employee

• Adheres to Triangle Policy and Procedures
• Acts as a role model within and outside Triangle
• Performs duties as workload necessitates
• Maintains a positive and respectful attitude
• Communicates regularly with supervisor about Department issues
• Demonstrates flexible and efficient time management and ability to prioritize workload
• Consistently reports to work on time prepared to perform duties of position
• Meets Department productivity standards

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide direct care coverage and support for individuals served, responding to individual issues during assigned shifts.
• Provide coverage for regular staff during vacancies, sick days, holidays, or vacation time.
• Support individuals as needed or directed, in areas of personal care, socialization and leisure activities, community membership, personal well-being, household, money management, activities of daily living, asserting their human and civil rights.
• Assist individuals in working on areas identified in their Individual Support Plans in conjunction with the efforts of other team members.
• Know emergency procedures and basic emergency facts regarding all individuals living at the location where coverage is provided.
• If med certified, dispense medications
• Complete any necessary documentation, including (but not limited to) Communication Log, Case Log, ROADs Charts, and Daily Progress notes, Incident Reports, Medication and Treatment Charts, Medication Occurrence Reports.
• Transport and/or accompany individuals to appointments and other community-based activities and events as needed.
• Maintain Triangle property in good and sanitary conditions.
• Additional duties assigned by the Program Manager.
• Accomplishes all tasks as appropriate.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED),
• One to three months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents such as safety rules. Ability to write reports and correspondence. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from regulatory agencies, or family members.

Americans with Disability Specifications

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands and fingers to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.