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| Summary: | |
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| Pine Belt Mental Healthcare | |
| Resources is actively seeking | |
| caring and energetic* Direct | |
| Support Professionals* to assist | |
| individuals with intellectual and | |
| developmental disabilities in a | |
| community-based residential | |
| setting in Hattiesburg, MS. | |
| The Direct Support Professional | |
| position plays an important part | |
| in providing assistance in daily | |
| living activities, accompanying | |
| Pine Belt Mental Health's | |
| consumers on outings in the | |
| community, and supporting | |
| treatment plans in partnership | |
| with clinical staff to enhance | |
| the quality of life for those we | |
| support. | |
| | |
| Supervised Living Services | |
| provide individually tailored | |
| supports which assist with the | |
| acquisition, retention, or | |
| improvement in skills related to | |
| living in the community. Learning | |
| and instruction are coupled with | |
| the elements of support, | |
| supervision and engaging | |
| participation to reflect the | |
| natural flow of learning, | |
| practice of skills, and other | |
| activities as they occur during | |
| the course of a person's day. | |
| Activities must support | |
| meaningful days for each person. | |
| Activities are to be designed to | |
| promote independence yet provide | |
| necessary support and | |
| assistance. Day Shifts are | |
| available. * | |
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| For 50 years, Pine Belt Mental | |
| Healthcare Resources has served | |
| individuals throughout the Pine | |
| Belt. Through an extensive | |
| continuum of care, we strive to | |
| enable adults with serious mental | |
| illnesses, children with serious | |
| emotional disturbances, and | |
| individuals with an addict on or | |
| developmental disability to live, | |
| work, learn, and participate | |
| fully in their communities. Our | |
| eighteen-county service area | |
| includes Amite, Covington, | |
| Forrest, Franklin, Greene, | |
| Hancock, Harrison, Jeff Davis, | |
| Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, | |
| Pear River, Perry, Pike, Stone, | |
| Walthall and Wayne | |
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| Pine Belt Mental Healthcare | |
| Resources offers a competitive | |
| benefits package including | |
| employer paid life insurance and | |
| LTD, along with optional Health, | |
| Dental, Vision, FSA and HSA, and | |
| 403(b) plan along with a generous | |
| leave policy. | |
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| Requirements: | |
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| - *High School Diploma or | |
| equivalent required | |
| - Must be able to obtain MS | |
| CDL Class D Driver's License | |
| within 30 days of hire | |
| - Valid Mississippi Driver's | |
| License with clean driving | |
| record required (no moving | |
| violations within 3 year | |
| period) | |
| - Use of personal | |
| transportation required to | |
| provide services in the | |
| community | |
| - Will need auto liability | |
| insurance limits of | |
| 100,000/300,000/50,000 within | |
| one month of hire | |
| - Experience working with the | |
| IDD population preferred | |
| - Experience assisting others | |
| with ADLs preferred | |
| - Will pass CPR, MANDT, and | |
| other required testing | |
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| Responsibilities: | |
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| - Accompanies and transports | |
| clients on outings in the |