Health Services Support Staff

About Little Friends, Inc.

At Little Friends, we strive to be a premier agency with the goal of providing the best support and services to families and individuals with special challenges throughout the Chicagoland area, and this starts with our employees. Our employees come together to make up our team to help our families and individuals to reach their fullest potentials to live, learn, work, and thrive in their communities. We challenge ourselves and our employees every day to be innovators in the field by providing a place where employees can be creative and take leadership in the work they do.

Responsibilities

The Health Services Support Worker ensures that both adult and child individuals arrive at their scheduled medical and specialist appointments promptly by driving them, while also assisting them during the appointment process when necessary. Additionally, the candidate must successfully get on the DCFS group home license to ensure they are fully authorized to transport medications directly to the Children's Group Homes. 

Specific Duties

• Assists the individuals to arrive promptly for scheduled medical and specialist appointments. This driving may include the individual in an agency vehicle or personal car.
• Provides necessary direct support to each individual during the appointment to ensure that the client understands the doctor’s instructions. This includes but is not limited to staying with an individual while he/she is being seen by the physician and/or dentist.
• Makes appropriate entries in the individuals’ case files as appropriate.
• Provides verbal and written information to Nurse, Manager, and appropriate staff as needed to ensure appropriate follow-up treatment is offered to individuals, including but not limited to medication schedules and procedures required by physicians or dentists.
• As needed, assists in arranging individuals appointments.
• Attends or provides input at staff meetings and Community Support Team (CST) meetings as appropriate or necessary for individual clients.
• Attends in-service and training programs as a scheduled supervisor.
• Executes other duties assigned as required to assist in the provision of services within the CLS.

Work Days/Times: Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm 

Hours per Week: 40

Pay rate: $21.49 per hour

WAGE TRANSPARENCY NOTIFICATION Little Friends, Inc., in compliance with House Bill 3129 regarding Pay Transparency, is committed to providing salary and benefits information for all open positions. Please note that all disclosed compensation rates for this role will be determined based on required qualifications, experience, education, skill, training, certifications, and seniority. Little Friends, Inc. also has the right to offer candidates appropriate compensation rates, determined by the employer, commensurate with the applicant’s qualifications, experience, education, skill, training, certifications, or seniority.

Benefits:

- Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

- Life Insurance

- 401K

- Vacation Paid

- Sick Time

- Paid Leave Time

- Excellent EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

Requirements

• High school diploma/GED.
• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Valid IL drivers license, good driving record, auto insurance and reliable transportation required.
• Must be able to pass pre-employment basic education test.
• Post high school educational training in psychology, social work, special education, medical/hospital appointment and records, or human services and/or experience working with developmentally disabled individuals is desirable.