• Employment Condition: Part Time; .75FTE; 30 hours per week/60 hours per pay period • Shift: Rotating • Insurance Eligibility: Anticipated Full Employer Contribution
As a Direct Support Specialist, you will be a member of a team who helps provide essential services to Minnesota’s most vulnerable residents. On a day-to-day basis, you will: • Assist individuals when needed in the performance of work, recreation, and activities of daily living • Lift, move, or position non-ambulatory or ambulatory individuals • Administer medications, implement instructions, and act accordingly as directed • Respond to medical emergencies, including first aid and CPR • Transport and accompany individuals to medical appointments, community outings, recreational activities, and spiritual events • Respond therapeutically to individuals with challenging behaviors • Site: West Concord • Town: West Concord, MN • Urban Setting; he home is on the West edge of West Concord • EASE Level: 3 • Staffing Level: One individual had 2:1 while in the community, All 4 individuals are 4:1 staffing while at home, 24-hour awake staffing • Age range: 40-80 years of age • Diagnosis: Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, Down Syndrome, Schizoaffective disorder, Explosive disorder *Site description narratives are subject to change at any time as individuals residing in the home or program or their level of care required may change.
Available upon request from the local Human Resources Office.
PLEASE NOTE: Any time an employee bids, voluntarily transfers, or voluntarily demotes to fill a vacancy in an existing MSOCS, any previously approved vacation may be rescinded if any employee already working in the MSOCS has approved leave for any of the days.