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Previous Employment 

Embrace Life Inc.
Job Description: Direct Support Professional

Job Description:

To support developmentally disabled individuals in their living and social skills with the primary goal of being successfully integrated into the community. Staff will embrace their value, identity, spirit, and intelligence. 

 

Departments: 

Home Community-Based Services
Day Programs
Residential Programs
 

General Qualifications

Effective communication skills, at least 18 years of age, high school diploma or equivalent(GED, etc.), able to obtain and maintain fingerprint clearance card. 

 

Minimum Physical Requirements

• Able to move members safely(individuals from wheelchair to bed or bed to wheelchair, etc).
• Lifting ability with a minimum of 50 lbs with support.
• Pulling (van doors, wheelchairs into elevators)
• Flexing
• Bending and crouching 
   

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

Knowledge

• Organization policy and procedure
• Assigned programs basic services 
• CPR/First-Aid
• Article 9 
• Prevention and Support

 

Skills

• Coordinating members daily activities 
• Effective communication with staff, members, and family members. 
• Provide proper hygiene to members
• Manage behavioral challenges in the most positive way possible.
• Handle other challenges in a calm manner 

Abilities 

• Provide positive decision making to support what is in the best interest of the member. 
• Be honest, reliable, dependable, and show exceptional work ethic and professionalism at all times. 
• Exercise patience, understanding, creativity, and flexibility. 
• Work well with staff, ensuring to have the best interests of the member, families, and the program 

 

 Environment/ Working Conditions

• Responsibilities may be in members home, day program, and/or residential programs
• Flexible work schedule to meet the needs of the member and program. 
• Random drug test  *NOTE*  Refusal by an employee to take a requested drug test will be grounds for dismissal. 
   

Job Agreement

I understand the Direct Support Professional job description. I understand this does not include all responsibilities.  

Disclaimer and Signature

I certify that my answers are true and complete to the best of my knowledge. If this application leads to employment, I understand that false or misleading information in my application or interview may result in my Release. 

Shift Agreement, Pay Rate Schedule, and Driving Policy

Pick the current open shifts at the specific location you picked. 

The schedule you pick is your permanent schedule in the program. However, sometimes the schedule can be adjusted as needed for the program, such as when members are hospitalized. 

Permanent Schedule Agreement  

If you can’t work any of these shifts you accepted, which is listed below, it is your responsibility to find an employee who can take the shift permanently. If you have found an employee, you are required to fill out a Swap Request form with that employee who wants to take your shift permanently. The schedule you agreed to work is set up to be the best for the program’s needs and meeting the state matrix requirements.  If no one is able to take your give-away shift, the Coordinator and Director will review the schedule to see if an additional staff is needed to cover the shift, and if there are any possible modifications available on the schedule. If the Coordinator and Director deem it not possible, you have three options:

Continue to work the shifts until a new schedule becomes open in the future (another employee resigns, etc) 
Become an on-call employee which means your weekly schedule won’t be the same. 
Put in two weeks’ notice

If you do not accept the shifts you were offered prior to starting work at the program, please speak with your Coordinator or Director to resolve.  

 

Tardiness and Absenteeism

To maintain a safe and productive work environment, the Embrace Life team expects employees to be reliable and to be punctual in reporting for scheduled work.  Dependability and diligent attendance are required for Embrace Life employment.  Employees are expected to punctually follow the hours posted for them on the official schedule.  They should arrive at the site in time to be ready for work by the time indicated on their schedules.  Absenteeism and tardiness place a burden on other employees and, and breeds resentment and ill will.  In the rare instances when employees cannot avoid being late to work or are unable to work as scheduled, they should notify the Coordinator as soon as possible in advance of the anticipated tardiness or absence.  Habitual tardiness is a cause for disciplinary action up to and including termination.  

Employees should notify the Coordinator immediately when unable to report to work each day they are absent and advise when they will report back to work.  Failure to communicate with the Coordinator for three consecutive days during an absence may be considered job abandonment.  The position may then be considered vacant and action can be initiated to recruit a replacement. 

Unexcused absences and excessive excused absences are cause for disciplinary action and may result in termination.  An unexcused absence is any absence not covered by an appropriate leave policy (e.g. sick/personal days, vacation leave, and inclement weather). An excused absence is any absence covered by the Embrace Life’s various leave policies.  An employee is considered absent if he or she is not present for work as scheduled, regardless of the cause.  The following absence patterns will be monitored and may be considered abuse of leave policies:

Absences on weekends for which an employee is scheduled to work. Absence the day before and/or the day after a scheduled holiday or day off. Calling in sick as rapidly as time is accrued, especially if used one day at a time
Coincidence of absence with desirable days off. 

Driving Policy 

Per your job description, drivers are required to transport members in company minivans. Please be advised that, in accordance with our insurance contract, all company vehicles are equipped with GPS monitors to track speeding. Recording more than five speeding violations will result in the removal of driving privileges and a change in your employment status. The speed limit is 5 MPH below the posted limit.

As a result of this change in status, your pay rate will be adjusted to $15.15 per hour, in accordance with the Arizona minimum wage.

Additionally, your permanent shifts are now considered replaceable. To meet our state contract mandates for member transportation and to avoid placing an undue burden on your coworkers, we reserve the right to reassign these shifts. Please note that your full-time status and benefits will remain unchanged. We may will split your shifts with another program or adjust your schedule based on available hours. Adhering to the driving requirements of your job description is necessary to maintain your current pay rate and preferred schedule.

I signed that I know my pay rate will change to $15.15 if I violate the driving safety policy, and I know my permanent schedule may be changed due to the loss of the privilege of using company vehicles.