Direct Support Professional (CoStar) - Resources for Human Development
Philadelphia, PA 19144
About the Job
Position Summary
The Direct Support Professional for RHD's Co Star advocates for and advises people in recovery (PIR) in their home and in the community; while teaching and assisting with skills building in relationship to residential, educational, vocational, social, recreational, spiritual, and self-maintenance domains, by performing the following duties.
The Direct Support Professional for RHD's Co Star advocates for and advises people in recovery (PIR) in their home and in the community; while teaching and assisting with skills building in relationship to residential, educational, vocational, social, recreational, spiritual, and self-maintenance domains, by performing the following duties.
Resources for Human Development is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, veteran, or disability status.
Responsibilities/Duties
- Assists Individuals with maintaining households, such as changing bed linens, washing and ironing, laundry, and cleaning quarters.
- Provides individuals with assistance while purchasing, preparing, and serving nutritious foods.
- Provides assistance in following special or prescribed diets.
- Provides assistance dressing, bathing, and grooming self.
- Supervises the self-administration of prescribed oral medications under written prescription of Physician.
- Supports individuals with traveling outside of the home.
- Assists individuals with finding and involving self in daily activities that provide meaning to his/her life
- Explains fundamental recovery principles and renders bedside care to individuals who are ill.
- Participates in evaluating needs of Program participants, and confers with family members, case managers, and others in Program participant’s support network to plan for continuing and additional services.
- Performs variety of miscellaneous duties as requested, such as assisting Program participants in obtaining household supplies and other needs.
- Maintains records of services performed and of apparent condition of PIR.
Required Experience
At least one year of experience working in a residential setting with adults with diagnosed with mental health challenges
Required Education
High School Diploma or GED
Required Qualifications
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to read routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of participants or employees of organization.
- All employees must possess and maintain a current driver’s license
- Ability to add, subtracts, multiply, and divides in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Must have a valid driver's license.
Program Summary
COSTAR is a community living residential program for individuals with co-occurring mental health and/or intellectual disability challenges. COSTAR individuals are often older, require slight medical attention or special care and live in two to three-person sites with staff support nearby. Because individuals are often older, participants do not “transition” or “graduate” to a lower level of care or independent living. Staff, including Program Coordinators, work with individuals to strive to reach their recovery goals and ingrate into the community. Staff utilize a strength-based, person-centered approach to encourage individuals to attend meaningful activities in the community at organizations that COSTAR has collaborated with. For example, local community centers often host evidence-based groups like the Trauma Recovery Empowerment Model (TREM), trauma recovery groups, or Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) workshops at local recovery centers. COSTAR’s goal is to address the special needs of the individual, build daily living skills, connect to behavioral health resources and wrap natural and formal supports around them to aid in recovery.
RHD employees and programs in the City of Philadelphia are required to follow the COVID vaccine mandate. Revised PDPH guidance allows for new hires to be partially vaccinated at the time of hire. This means they have received at least one shot in a two-dose series or a single dose in a one-dose series before beginning in-person shifts. The final dose must be received within 8 weeks of hire (start date). This currently does not include boosters.
Resources for Human Development is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, veteran, or disability status.
About Resources for Human Development:
RHD is a national, comprehensive human services organization. Our mission is to provide caring, effective, and innovative services that empower people of all abilities as they work to achieve the highest level of independence possible while building better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. RHD currently supports programs in: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Dakota & Tennessee!
Source : Resources for Human Development