Family Support Caregiver Part-time

Description

ProBerco is recruiting for Community Living Direct Support Professionals to join Our Team! ProBerco is excited to offer a $2,000.00 New Hire Sign-On Bonus. Please be advised that pay is dependent upon qualifications and experience.

Salary starting at $17.00 hourly, now offering shift differentials! Please be advised that pay is dependent upon qualifications and experience. 

Competitive Benefits 

• Paid holidays for full-time employees upon hire
• Health and Prescription benefits after 30 days
• Company paid Dental and Vision benefits after 30 days
• Company paid Life Insurance after 60 days
• 401k enrollment after 90 days 
• PTO and Sick time available after 90 days

About ProBerco

ProBerco's employees have been making a difference in the lives of individuals with disabilities for 49 years. Our mission is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities and their families by providing innovative community participation, community living, and employment supports. Our corporate culture is based on the principles of accountability, communication, and trust. The values of compassion, dignity and respect, responsibility, integrity, fairness and justice, innovation, inspiration, aspiration, and teamwork form the foundation for our code of conduct. Our program activities are carried out on-site at multiple locations throughout Berks County.

POSITION SUMMARY

This hourly position will provide in-home, recreational, and habilitative services to individuals residing with their families or independently in the community. Hours of work will vary, depending on the needs of the service recipients. This position will be responsible to implement outcomes, follow the policies and procedures of Prospectus Berco, and cooperating with the specific requirements of each service recipient and/or their representative. This position will, at all times, demonstrate a high degree of professionalism and compassion while fulfilling the mission of Prospectus Berco.

Requirements

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTs

1. High School education and a demonstrated ability to support adults with special needs in a community setting.

3. PA Driver’s license.

4. Experience implementing outcomes and experience with documentation.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Provide scheduled services in community settings and/or the service recipient’s 

home. Services may include skill development in activities of daily living, 

educational skill development or maintenance, communication skill development, 

sensory/motor skill development, adaptive behavior skill development, social skill 

development or maintenance, recreational activities, and/or transportation to

required appointments and activities. Services will be provided in a supportive, 

caring, and safe manner and individual needs and differences will be respected.

2. Independence and growth will be promoted.

3. Follow each service recipient’s ISP as written.

4. Attend to physical needs as required for each service recipient, including those 

requiring specialized training or procedures.

COMPETENCIES

• Maintain confidentiality.

• Communicate effectively with all team members as well as with those serviced by 

the corporation.

• Exhibit objectivity and openness to other points of view.

• Adapt to changes in the work environment, change method of approach to fit the 

situation.

• Manage time effectively.

• Ask for assistance when necessary.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or 

feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch; or crawl; 

and talk; or hear. 

• The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee may be required to lift 

and/or move more than 50 pounds. 

• Safety precautions are observed in order to reduce incidents of risk factors for 

typical office environment which are adequately lighted, heated and ventilated. 

Example: avoiding trips and falls, back care, and observing fire regulations.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color 

vision, and depth perception.

• This job will primarily be performed inside under typical homelike conditions. 

• The employee will occasionally perform the duties of this job outside in typical 

seasonal weather conditions. 

• The employee will occasionally perform the duties of this job in an office setting and 

in other community resource settings such as restaurants and movie theaters. 

• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. 

• The employee will frequently perform the duties of this job in a car.

ProBerco is an Equal Opportunity Employer