Direct Support Professional

Direct Support Professional

Maxim Healthcare is hiring for a Direct Support Professional to provide support and care for individuals with intellectual disabilities within their homes or communities. Responsibilities include ensuring client's health, wellness, and safety, encouraging individual goals, crisis prevention and intervention, promoting advocacy and individual rights, and maintaining detailed documentation on client status. Safe and appropriate implementation of behavior support plan strategies and interventions is required. Accurate reporting of suspected abuse, neglect, and exploitation is also necessary. Skills such as prompting, instruction, modeling, and reinforcement are utilized for person-centered services. Promoting independence in activities of daily living, work / volunteer, learning, and leisure is essential. Providing transportation based on client needs and completing required annual trainings to maintain certifications are also part of the role.

Requirements include the ability to read and write proficiently in English, successful completion of the Direct Care Worker Competency evaluation process, current CPR card, current health screening, and proof of one of the following qualifications : a valid and verifiable Pennsylvania nurses license or a valid and verifiable Pennsylvania certified nurse aide certification or certificate of completion from a state approved home health aide program or demonstrated competency by passing a competency evaluation developed by the Home Care Agency which meets the requirements of the state or completion of a training program developed by a Home Care Agency or Home Care Registry, or other entity which meets the requirements of the state or training program meeting the standards imposed on the agency or registry by virtue of the agency's or registry's participating as a provider in a Medicaid waiver or other publicly funded program providing home and community based services to qualifying consumers or successful completion of another program identified by the Department by subsequent publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin or on the Departments website.