Support Professional

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Dakota Milestones is a private, non-profit corporation that provides needed services to persons with intellectual disabilities in a community setting. Our primary goal is to provide services to foster work and living skills. Ultimately, services provided will further develop people’s skill to their fullest potential, to allow each person to become as independent and as productive members of the community as possible.  

Mission Statement: To Empower People and Enhance Lives

Job Description: Support Professional / Caregiver will provide support to people served at Dakota Milestones Inc. to achieve their personal outcomes as a result of ongoing development, coordination, and implementation of the Individual Support Plan. This process includes but is not limited to:

Roles / Responsibilities:

• A Support Professional / Caregiver will assist the person to develop a plan that reflects their dreams, hopes, and desires.
  implement a plan, which includes teaching activities of daily living skills, providing options for a variety of community activities, supporting person as needed.
• Assist people with the administration of their medication. Educate people about their medications: why they are taken, what the medication is, times to be taken, the doctor who prescribed it, etc.
• A Support Professional / Caregiver provides positive behavior support techniques specific to the needs of each person.
• Conduct both formal and informal assessment practices in order to respond to the dreams and desires of the person served. *
• Conduct personal outcome interviews to discover how the person served defines each outcome.
• All Support Professional / Caregiver’s will support self-advocacy, assisting people to live self-directed lives, while fostering a partnership with the people supported, other professionals, and the community.
• Respect: supporting and recognizing each person’s values and uniqueness, while assisting them to understand the values and uniqueness of others. 

Requirements / Qualifications:

· Must have High School Diploma / GED

· Must have Valid and in good Standing Driver’s License

Benefits:

· Sign on Bonus 

· Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance  

· 401K W/ Potential Company match

· 10 Paid Sick Leave Days per year

· PTO Vacation Time

· 10 Paid Holidays

· Weekend Increased Pay opportunity

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