Residential Unit Specialist
State of Florida
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: MARIANNA • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $34,760 - $38,235 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Daily and consistently implements approved and scheduled active treatment and skill acquisition programs for residents, including but not limited to activities of daily living, areas of self-care, socialization, recreation, leisure, speech, community awareness, and vocational/prevocational skills.
- Provides supervision and training at worksite, working with vocational staff to maximize training and attending to residents’ self-care needs as appropriate.
- Report’s progression and lack thereof of the residents’ goals and objectives to the supervisor and suggests improvements as appropriate.
- Transports and/or escorts residents to and from on-campus activities, community trips and appointments, including emergency visits to the hospital, to ensure their health, safety, and general well-being.
- Provides care for residents during overnight stays in medical facilities and other locales as needed to provide for the 24-hour care of each resident.
- Implements appropriate recreation, social, and leisure activities for residents in the residential home setting, as well as away from home through center wide activities, community activities, and attending alternative leisure activities.
- Maintains applicable policies and procedures related to resident injuries, abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Requirements
- Preference will be given to candidates with professional experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities in a residential setting.
- Ability to lift forty pounds.
- Knowledge of the methods of instructing and providing care to others.
- Ability to understand and apply the methods and practices used in medical, psychiatric, nursing, or childcare or in working with developmentally disabled persons.
- Ability to take and monitor vital signs.
- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
- Ability to carry out instructions for implementing prescribed treatment plans including behavior modification activities.
- Ability to instruct others in basic self-care skills.
- Ability to instruct others in recreational activities.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
Benefits
- Annual and Sick Leave benefits.
- Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year.
- State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options.
- Retirement plan options, including employer contributions (For more information, please click www.myfrs.com ).
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Tuition waivers.
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
treatment implementationskill acquisitionself-care instructionvital signs monitoringbehavior modificationrecreational activity instruction
Soft skills
effective communicationrelationship buildingsupervisiontrainingreportingproblem-solving