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Direct Support Professional
Valley Achievement Center
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Bakersfield, United States
Location
Bakersfield
Posted
June 16, 2026
Commute
Local Area
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Job Description
Job Summary: Direct Support Professional provide essential support and assistance to participants with developmental disabilities, ensuring their safety, well-being, integration into daily activities, adaptive functional skills, and/or developing employment-related skills, and community integration.
Job Responsibilities:
Job Responsibilities:
- Assist persons served with daily living activities including personal hygiene, housekeeping, meal preparation, and social and community interaction.
- Implement Individual Service Plans (ISP) for each person served, focusing on employment-related, daily living, functional, social, recreational goals and/or other objectives set by the participant and organization.
- Assist participants with medication management by reviewing medication labels, explaining the purpose and timing of each medication, helping with the transfer of medications into containers, supporting the use of inhalers an...