Group Home Paraprofessional

Overview

Working in a Group Home with adults with disability or mental illness. To provide persons supported with quality services. Assisting them to become as independent as possible. Transporting them to outing in community, doctors appointment, etc. Assisting them to reach the goals that have been developed for them.

Responsibilities

1. To receive, read, and be familiar with the Employee Handbook regards personnel Policies and Procedures for the

agency.

2. Required knowledge, skills, abilities, and specific consumer competencies: Knowledge of basic principles of I/DD,

ability to work with persons who may be different from me in areas of ability, age, economic status, socially, etc; 

empathy and understanding of consumer problems and ability to respond to these problems;

ability to determine consumer needs; ability to engage with and build a rapport with the person serve...