Title: Lead Direct Care Professional (PM Shift)
State Role Title: 49053
Hiring Range: $41,843 commensurate with experience
Pay Band: 3
Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop
Location: Southeastern VA Training Ctr
Agency Website: https://dbhds.virginia.gov/facilities/sevtc/employment
Recruitment Type: General Public - G
Job Duties
This position is considered essential personnel and would be required to work in the event of an emergency or facility need. All SEVTC positions are required to work different shifts and/or overtime as requested.
• Work within a person-centered educational model to provide support, educational/training, and supervision of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Managing staff assignments and ensuring all shift tasks are completed efficiently.
• Run training programs; administer medications; collect and record pertinent data and complete required documentation
• Contribute to and maintain an environment that is supportive of individual choices, enriching, homelike, safe and nurturing for people with disabilities
• Support and instruct individuals in a range of daily living skills including self-help, personal hygiene, independent living, and social development
• Monitor leisure time, recreational, social and activities of choice
• May be supporting individuals receiving emergency stabilization services
• Drive facility vans to transport individuals
• Responding to crises with effective management techniques, ensuring safety for all.
• Completing special assignments as directed by supervisors.
Shift Hours:
2:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Shift differential is available for the following shifts:
2nd shift weekday $2.50/hr. weekend $3.00/hr.
All new hires must successfully complete the facility’s Pre-service training program for Direct Support Professional Staff, to include Person Centered Approach techniques, CPR/First Aid Certification, TOVA, medication administration, nutritional management and physical/behavioral management, for continued employment. (Preservice training class is 10 days long 8:00 am to 4:30 pm and one day 2p-10p).
Minimum Qualifications
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be dependable, accountable, and reliable.
• Must have ability to work a flexible schedule.
• Must have basic computer skills to include the ability to use keyboard, mouse and navigate an Electronic Health Record with minimum assistance after training.
• Must be able to meet the physical demands of the job with or without reasonable accommodation, which includes standing, bending, walking, pushing/pulling, lifting up to 50 pounds, providing support during all aspects of daily personal care, and intervening with aggressive behaviors.
• Successful completion of the facility’s Pre-Service training program, which includes CPR, First Aid, medication administration, nutritional management, and physical/behavioral management, is required for continued employment.
• Ability to work collaboratively with co-workers, Residential Supervisors and/or Supervisors, Administrator on Duty (after hour supervisors) and ID team members.
Additional Considerations
• Prior experience with medication administration.
• Prior experience working with individuals with intellectual disabilities, autism, and other disabilities.
• Prior experience working with medically fragile individuals.
• Prior experience as a Direct Support Professional, a Certified Nursing Assistant, or similar role.
• Demonstrated experience working with electronic medical records.
Special Instructions
You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.
Contact Information
Name: Sarita Jordan
Phone: (757) 424-8545
Email: sarita.jordan@dbhds.virginia.gov
In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.
Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.