Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Benefits:
- Referral Program
- Paid Training
- 401(k)
Are you a compassionate, caring person who finds joy in helping others?
We are looking for support staff in multiple locations, including Yuba City listed below. All openings have the opportunity to pick up additional hours on call, as well as potential flexibility to be combined for additional hours. Please apply on our website @
newstartsls.org/careers Mornings: - Wednesdays 7 am to 3 pm (8 hrs)
- Saturdays 11 am to 3 pm OR 6 pm (4 or 7 hrs)
Evenings: - Mondays and Fridays 6pm-11pm (5 hrs each)
- Saturdays 6 pm - 11pm OR 3 pm - 11 pm (5 or 8 hrs)
Overnights: - Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 11 pm to 7 am (8 hrs)
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Supportive Living Services (SLS) is a program designed to provide in-home and community-based assistance to adults with developmental disabilities who live in their own homes and want to make their own choices.
At New Start SLS, we believe that individuals with developmental disabilities thrive when they make their own choices about where they live, work, and how they spend their time and resources. By taking control of the choices that control their lives, people with developmental disabilities can better direct their own futures.Through patience, guidance, encouragement and Person-Centered Planning, we support the individuals we serve to develop the confidence and skills they need to make meaningful choices, reach self set goals, as well as experience fulfillment and greater independence.
As support staff, each shift offers new experiences and the reward of knowing youve made a difference. In this position, a few examples of the type of work you will be doing may include assisting the individual with: learning daily skills and activities, menu planning, grocery shopping, cooking, budgeting, cleaning, using public transportation, making and attending appointments, volunteering, and participating in social leisure activities.
Other duties include, but are not limited to:
- Provide in-home and community based assistance to consumers according to individual service programs set up by Alta California Regional Center and New Start SLS.
- Documenting of daily charting notes.
- Reporting of issues and concerns regarding consumers to New Start Case Manager.
- Attending in-service training sessions when offered, as well as complete continued education monthly.
- Some of the individuals we support use electric or manual wheelchairs, receive assistance with adaptive equipment for transfer, and may require personal care assistance (ex: toileting, bathing, brushing teeth, wound assistance).
- Staff will be sensitive to the ethnic, lifestyle, and cultural diversity of our consumers and their circle of support. Staff will encourage, and help achieve consumer success.
SLS QUALIFICATIONS + PRE-REQUISITES:
- Must be able to speak, read, and write English.
- Must have a High School Diploma or equivalent GED.
- Staff must be able to work with and support individuals who have disabilities and have at least 1 year of paid or volunteer experience supporting individuals with disabilities. This may include caregiving, teaching, coaching, tutoring or personal lived experience.
- Some individuals we serve may require staff transportation support. Support staff eligible to drive clients must be eligible and willing to use their personal vehicle during employment. Eligibility requires review and maintaining copies of valid CA drivers license, current insurance, and clean DMV record with the office.
- Awake Starting Pay Rate: $20 per hour, Sleep Starting Pay Rate $19 per hour.
- By Day 1 of Orientation staff must show proof of current CPR and First Aid certification. Current certification must be from an in-person or hybrid based course.
- By Day 1 of Orientation staff must show evidence of a negative TB test and a clear physical exam from within the last year.
** Please apply on our website @ newstartsls.org/careers **
New Start SLS Privacy Statement: No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. New Start SLS will not use contact information given to us for marketing purposes. New Start SLS uses telecommunications (including text messaging) to communicate with employees, clients, the Alta California Regional Center, and others as needed to provide Supportive Living Services; we do not use telecommunications for marketing or solicitations.
By giving your phone number, you are authorizing New Start SLS to send you text messages and/or call you. Messaging frequency will vary. Your carrier message & data rates may apply. All applicants agree to be contacted via telecommunication. Any applicant wishing to opt out of communications from New Start SLS can email office.newstartsls@gmail.com or reply stop to text messages. Employees may not opt out of communication from their employer.
Job Tags
Hourly pay, Live in, Work at office, Work from home, Monday to Friday, Shift work, Night shift, Day shift, Afternoon shift,