Part-Time Direct Support Professional

Job description

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. - En...