Direct Support Professional

<br/><br/><p><strong>Job Title:</strong> Direct Support Professional – $500 Sign-on Bonus<br><strong>H<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ourly Rate:</span></strong><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> $15.00<br><strong>Shifts Needed:</strong> Full-Time Days - weekends and a few during week <br><strong>Location:</strong> Bemidji, MN</span></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Direct Support Professionals help individuals with developmental disabilities, mental health needs, and medical needs live safe, independent, and meaningful lives. In this role, you’ll support daily living skills, personal care, hygiene, meals, medication assistance, community access, social skills, housekeeping, safety, and recreation. You’ll follow support plans, document daily progress, and use behavioral and crisis-prevention strategies as trained. Success in this position requires dependable communication, teamwork, problem-solving, confidentiality, and the ability to learn required procedures and regulations.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong>Benefits – Full-Time</strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident insurance</li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">HSA, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA</li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">EAP</li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Employee discount program</li><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">PTO</li></ul><p style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Dayforce Wallet Daily Pay Pre-Tax 401(k)After-Tax Roth Tuition discount through Capella University</p><p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Education & Experience</span></strong></p><ul style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">High school diploma or GED preferred</span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">CPR/First Aid (provided)</span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Crisis intervention training (provided)</span></p></li></ul><h2 style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Physical Requirements</span></strong></h2><ul style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Works primarily in the program location, with occasional outdoor/community activities</span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Frequent sitting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions</span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Occasional lifting up to 50 lbs</span></p></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Occasional bending, twisting, stooping, squatting, pushing, pulling, standing, crawling, reaching, walking, driving, traveling, kneeling, and crouching</span></p></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><br/><br/>PandoLogic. Keywords: Direct Support Professional (DSP), Location: Bemidji, MN - 56601