Shire Jobs

A direct support professional works to assist people with mental and physical disabilities or limitations. In this career, your job duties include helping people in a residential assisted living community. This means providing care including but not limited to bathing or showering, dressing, toileting, all personal hygiene (i.e.: brushing teeth, denture care, brushing hair, applying deodorant) and ADLs. You may be asked to help individuals with household routines such as laundry and meal planning, cooking, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, picking up rooms, vacuuming and dusting. You will be called upon to lift, transfer, and when necessary to prevent injury, to physically manage and individual. You may be asked to assist with transporting residents to and from activities as well as helping with simple exercises. You will be administering medication and assisting with breathing treatments, inhalers, and oxygen management. In this field you are working with medically fragile individuals and therefore may have to deal with death and dying on the job.