New Vista of the Bluegrass Inc·Louisville, Kentucky
Provide essential daily care and support to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a residential facility. Responsibilities include assisting with bathing, feeding, dressing, and promoting the overall wellbeing and safety of clients.
New Vista Hazelwood is seeking direct caregivers to support our population of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
If you have a passion for caregiving or are interested in starting your career in healthcare, look no further!
**NEW Starting base pay of $19.51 up to $20.64 based upon Education and Certifications including MA & SRNA & RBT **
Location: Hazelwood ICF, 1800 Old Bluegrass AVE, Louisville, KY 40215-1168
Preferred Experience Preferred 1 year experience in direct caregiving role
Details About the Job
The Hazelwood Center is a Intermediate Care Facility that supports the long term care needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities. The Direct Support Professional position is vital to safety, happiness, and wellbeing of our clients. The support level required will be based on each client’s individual needs. In this role you will provide assistance with basic daily care needs such as bathing, toileting, feeding, dressing, active treatment, and socializing would be delivered by you as a part of your regular job duties.
This is a full-time position.
Typical work week is 37.5 hours with some opportunity for overtime.
Weekend work is required.
Employee will work a rotating schedule as needed to provide direct support and supervision of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
As this is a residential setting, employees are assigned shifts.
Employee must be able to flex hours and must be able to work mandatory overtime as needed.
Employees must be able to work at least 7.5 hours per day with no restrictions to meet the needs of the facility.
We are currently hiring for 1st & 3rd shifts
1st - 7: 00A- 3:15P
3rd - 11: 00P- 7:15A
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