Direct Support Professional Position Available In Coahoma, Mississippi
Tallo's Job Summary: The Direct Support Professional role involves assisting in self-care training and therapeutic treatments for residents at a mental retardation center. Responsibilities include demonstrating daily self-care practices, reinforcing positive behaviors, promoting social interaction, serving meals, accompanying residents on shopping trips, and aiding in administering therapeutic activities. This position also involves observing and documenting residents' behaviors and attending to routine health-care needs under medical supervision. The participant must be fully vaccinated and boosted, and must be able to work.
Job Description
Assists in providing self-care training and therapeutic treatments to residents of mental retardation center. Demonstrates activities such as bathing and dressing to train residents in daily self-care practices. Converses with residents to reinforce positive behaviors and to promote social interaction. Serves meals and eat with residents to act as role model. Accompanies residents on shopping trips and instruct and counsels residents in purchasing of personal items. Aids staff in administering therapeutic activities, such as physical exercise, occupational arts, crafts and recreational games to residents. Restrain disruptive residents to prevent injury to themselves and others. Observes and document residents behaviors such as speech production, feeding patterns, and toilet tranining, to facilitate assessment and development of treatment goals. Attends to routine health-care needs of residents under supervision of medical personnel. May give medications as prescribed by physician. May train parents or guardians in care of deinstitutionalized residents. Participant must be fully vaccinated and boosted. Must be able to work
