One on One Full-Time Residential Care Professional

One on One Full-Time Residential Care Professional

GIL "Grounded In Love" Foundation Inc. is a private nonprofit organization celebrating 35 years of compassionate care and services for community residents with Intellectual Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities, and Autism in Connecticut. 

Full-Time Schedule:

Sun- OFF

Mon- 6am-2pm

Tues- 6am-2pm

Wed- OFF

Thurs- OFF

Fri- 6am-2pm

Sat- 6am-2pm

*Overtime available weekly to pick up open shifts

What a Residential Care Professional will be doing:

• Provides direct care to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.


• Performs personal care tasks, including assistance with basic personal hygiene and grooming, feeding, and ambulation, medical monitoring, and health care related tasks.


• Fosters positive relationships between caretakers and individuals served.


• Ensures client safety and maintaining a safe environment.


• Reminds and assists clients with self-administration of medications (with proper training).


• Encourages self-help activities.


• Reports changes in client’s condition or family situation to administrators and supervisors.


• Documents services provided.


• Performs home management functions such as light housekeeping, laundry, bed making, and cleaning.


• Plans meals, shopping for groceries, preparing and serving food/meals, feeding and clean-up.


• Accompanies clients to scheduled appointments and transports clients or running errands for clients.


• Assists with toileting, including bedpans, urinals, and commode chairs as necessary.


• Participating in monthly staff meetings and contributing to a successful team process.


• Paying close attention to detail and being comfortable working with a computer, which is necessary to support our clientele’s needs (training is provided).


• Providing for the safeguard & protection of individual’s personal property, rights, and privacy.


• Performing various assignments and demands of a physical nature, which may include the lifting and transferring of heavy weight – at times in excess of 100 pounds, with, or without the use of adaptive or mechanical equipment, or staff assistance.
  


• Other duties as assigned.

The following certifications will need to be obtained and approved within company policy guidelines:

• State Medication Administration Certification (Group Home Workers Only)


• First Aid for Accidents


• CPR – Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation


• PMT – Physical Management Techniques (Group Home Workers Only)
  

Part Time Positions Available: (typically 12-hours to 24-hours over 7-days per week) includes weekday (early hours), weekend, and evening hours in a residential based home for Adults with Disabilities. Overtime is available.

Location Available:

Cheshire, CT 06410