Direct Support Professional

Location

Lincoln, NE | United States

Job description

Are you searching for a company that prides itself on providing employees with a positive work environment, career advancement opportunities, and loyalty? If so, Better Living is the place for you! Better Living strives to be the best for our employees and our employees strive to be the best for the clients that we are serving. Better Living helps give hope and guidance to children and families within the child welfare system throughout Nebraska.

Better Living provides a competitive compensation and a benefit package, including a $2000 hire bonus, along with the employer paid benefits listed below, creating an actual hourly rate of $26.22 without a bachelor's degree and $27.35 with a bachelor's degree with your base starting wage ($19 for non-degreed employees and $20 for degreed employees). Added possible benefits of incentive bonuses and employee referral bonuses.

Employer Paid Benefits:

• Health Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Student loan Repayment Program - progressive with years of service starting at $600 annually
• CEU Training
• Retirement Contribution
• 401K Matching
• Vacation
• Sick Leave
• Holidays
• Hiring Bonus

Non-Employer Paid Benefits

• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 401K
• Parental Leave

Better Living specializes in the reunification of families and as a Direct Support Professional you will be an essential part of the reunification process. You will work to reunify children with parents by focusing on the core values of what makes for an enriching environment that cultivates the healthy development of a child. The Direct Support Professional role is a collaborative effort with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in which you will track the progress of the families with which you work. Your work will set and obtain goals that allow for successful outcomes in the accomplishment of reunification in a safe, supportive, and loving home. As a member of our team, your role will be to serve as a role model and mentor to both parents and children creating pathways and achieving goals to facilitate a positive change in family dynamics which will certainly prove to be a fulfilling career.

Education/Certification Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent (required)
• Associate or bachelor's degree in human services field (preferred)

Experience Requirements:

• If no bachelor's degree has been obtained, must have minimum of two years' work experience in the human service field (social work, counseling/guidance, psychology, sociology, human development, mental health education or a closely related human service field)
• If an associate degree has been obtained, must have minimum of one years' work experience in the human service field (social work, counseling/guidance, psychology, sociology, human development, mental health education or a closely related human service field)
• If bachelor's degree been obtained in the human service field (social work, counseling/guidance, psychology, sociology, human development, mental health education or a closely related human service field), no work experience required, but it is preferred

Skills/Qualifications including but not limited to:

• Excellent writing and computer skills
• Excellent listening and verbal communication (including de-escalation and redirection in times of conflict)
• Teamwork
• Demonstrates understanding and empathy for others
• Current and valid Driver's License with no more than 3 points assessed
• Current auto insurance that meets the minimum automobile liability and medical coverage required by Nebraska law

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible Schedule

Schedule:

• Day and Evening hours (required)
• Weekend availability (required)
• Holidays
• Evening and weekend availability is required. Hours will vary from week to week and day to day depending on client availability. Client schedules may not guarantee a forty-hour work week, some flexibility and an extended work week may be required to obtain full-time/forty hours.

Pay: $19.00 - $21.20/hour

• Without bachelor's degree - $19/hour
• With bachelor's degree - $20/hour

Willingness to Travel: 30% (Required)

Work Location: In-home services - multiple locations

#programsupport #familysupport #visitationspecialist #parentingtime #socialworker

#Lincoln #68502 #68505 #68506 #68512 #68516 #68521 #68524 #Waverly #68462 #Wahoo #68066 #Syracuse #68446 #Hickman #68372 #Seward #68434 #Ceresco #68017 #Eagle #68347 #Valparaiso #68065 #Milford #68405

Job tags

Salary