Direct Support Professional (DSP)- Somerset

Matheny

📍 Peapack and Gladstone, New Jersey, United States

Part-Time Home Health and Personal Care Aides; and Nursing Assistants, Orderlies, and Psychiatric Aides

Job Description

Description

Matheny Medical and Educational Center has a career opportunity available for a Part Time Direct Support Professional (DSP) at our Somerset (Franklin Township), NJ Community Residence.

Position is every other Saturday and Sunday 7am-7pm.

Duties of this position include:

  • Provides personal care tasks to an assigned client or group, which meets their hygiene, safety, comfort, nutritional, elimination, activity and social needs.
  • Ensures clients are dressed properly and are clean and dry at all times
  • Respects the client's rights, concerns, privacy and dignity at all times.
  • Checks the clients for reddened areas and signs of skin breakdown, and reports findings to the nurse immediately.
  • Notifies the nurse when a client complains about or exhibits sings of pain or injury.
  • Maintains cleanliness of clients' wheelchairs.
  • Maintains cleanliness of program spaces and ...
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