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Direct Support Specialist | Adult Ability Center
Pay: Range starts at $17/hour (pay is calculated based on years of related experience)
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm
Program: Adult Ability Center
Benefits Highlights
- On-Demand Pay allows access to a portion of earned wages before the usual payday.
- Time off includes 15 days of annual accrued paid time off, which increases by one day with each year of service, 11 paid holidays, 2 wellness days, and paid parental leave.
- Full-time and part-time (30+ hours) team members are eligible for health, dental, vision, life & disability insurance, accident, hospital indemnity, critical illness, legal, auto, home, and pet insurance.
- Team members who enroll in a qualified medical plan can contribute to a Health Savings Account (HSA). We match every HSA contribution, up to $900 for individuals and $1800 for families annually.
- We help our team members with tuition reimbursement, new licensure reimbursement, and career training and development. Valley also participates in Utah and federal student loan forgiveness programs.
- Our discounts and perks program provides more than $4500 in savings on everything from pizza to the zoo to movie tickets to oil changes!
- 401(k) retirement program allows for both pre-tax and post-tax contributions and includes a company match up to 6% of your annual salary.
Why Valley?
Since 1984, Valley Behavioral Health has helped thousands of adults, children, and families access high-quality behavioral health care. As the largest non-profit community behavioral health provider in the Intermountain Region, Valley offers a comprehensive range of services to ensure each individual receives the personalized care they need to heal and grow.
You will belong in a community where you can be yourself, grow your career, and embrace new opportunities. Valley is committed to being an organization that promotes authenticity and encourages opportunities for success.
Job Summary & Deliverables
The Direct Support Specialist provides evidence-based practices to develop clients’ individual skills in providing supported services across life, social, and job skill areas as indicated by the person-centered support plan to meet individualized goals. The Direct Support Specialist is responsible for utilizing evidence-based practices, meeting fiscal responsibilities, and ensuring that regulatory and organizational standards are met.
- Utilizes information gathered from the person-centered process to identify client strengths and weaknesses and develops collaborative goals with each client and their family for lifelong learning
- Develops client’s individual skills in providing supported services across life, social, and job skill areas
- Uses evidence-based practices to teach pre-employment and employment skills in clinical settings
- Assists clients with self-help/independence skills which can include toileting, feeding, and basic hygiene routines
- Works cohesively with treatment team to ensure the delivery of high quality support and care
- Assists with facilitating a safe and developmentally-focused environment in the center and community
- Develops data collection tools, collects data, and enters into online data collection system to document client progress
- Completes required documentation in Electronic Health System
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Additional Info
Job Type : Full-time
Organization Mission : Valley is a responsive community partner empowering individuals and families to lead more fulfilling lives by providing appropriate, innovative, outcome-based programs, tools, services, and resources across the continuum of health and social needs.
DEI/Nondiscrimination Statement : Valley cultivates a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where everyone belongs. We believe that welcoming differences strengthens us. At Valley, we instill diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) into our strategic priorities and core values through collaboration, communication, innovation, and education. Valley promotes DEIB by seeking ways to celebrate and honor our differences and the power that comes from them. Valley consistently reviews these initiatives to ensure that we weave DEIB into the fabric of our communities.
Work Model : On-site
Compensation Type : Hourly
Pay Range : $17