Direct Support Professional Job Responsibilities: 

• 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 the 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.

• Participate in all required trainings

• Other duties as described by the individual's service plan.