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Earthcare Direct Support Professional (DSP)

Job Details

Entry
Weaver EarthCare - Camp Garfield - Ravenna, OH
Full Time
High School
$14.00 - $15.00 Hourly
None
Day
Nonprofit - Social Services

Description

Interested in working someplace where smiles are genuine?

Join our team here at Weaver Industries. We are looking for individuals that are seeking change in their career. We are a diverse and relaxed environment and we look to make a difference in the lives of ourselves and others. We are dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for people with disabilities, by providing them with vocational training and opportunities for employment. If this sounds like you, keep reading to learn more about you can become part of our mission.

Summary/Objective

Supervise/oversee a crew that will provide grounds maintenance and landscaping services to our external customers. In addition to ensuring the quality of service provided, the Crew Supervisor will be responsible for the oversight of Weaver EarthCare crew members, individuals with disabilities, in alignment with the Mission of Weaver Industries.

Essential Job Functions

  • Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment.
  • Encourage clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships.
  • Collect information about clients through interviews, observation, or tests.
  • Fill out and maintain client-related paperwork, including federal- and state-mandated forms, client diagnostic records, and progress notes.
  • Guide clients in the development of skills or strategies for dealing with their problems.
  • Perform crisis interventions with clients.
  • Act as client advocates to coordinate required services or to resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
  • Police grounds remove all trash and debris
  • Trim around flower beds and obstacles
  • Mow using a: push mower, walk behind mower or riding a tractor
  • Weed flower beds
  • Sweep walk and driveways
  • Plant and mulch beds
  • Rake debris

Supervisory Responsibility

  1. Must train and oversee crew members (per DODD rules and properly supervising and safety techniques, reviewing the training effectiveness)
  2. Must oversee the health and safety of all crew members
  3. Must maintain a Safety Program for crew members, reviewing for continuous improvements
  4. Must maintain all crew members’ ISPs, making sure the most recent ISP for each crew member has at the work site (per DODD rules)
  5. Must follow MUI/UIR reporting procedures (per CSBDD and the DODD rules)
  6. Must report any changes or behavior issues to the crew member’s Service & Support Administrator (SSA), the Weaver EarthCare Operations Manager and the Employment Services Manager
  7. Must complete and submit all required paperwork (tracking forms, etc.)

Qualifications

  • Lawn maintenance and landscaping skills preferred
  • The ability to obtain an Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) Commercial Pesticide License (Category 5 Industrial Vegetation, CORE Commercial Core) a plus
  • Must complete and maintain certification; as well as understand the requirements set forth by the Department of  Developmental Disabilities (DODD) and the County of Summit Board of DD(CSBDD)
  • Must be eligible, capable and willing to drive a 12-15 passenger van to transport crew members to and from the worksite
  • Good customer service skills
  • Clean driving record
  • Must be willing to work as a team member,
  • Follow instructions
  • Handle change in routines
  • Display appropriate socialization at all times

Work Environment

  • Must be able to perform all duties in cool, mild, and hot weather

Physical Demands

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the job. To perform the required duties, you:

  • Must be able to work with your hands, walk, stoop, kneel, bend and reach with hands and arms
  • Must be able to lift 30 +lbs., carry 30+ lbs.
  • May work in conditions that may include exposure to blood-borne pathogens, communicable diseases, potentially infectious material and aggressive behavior

 

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