Are you passionate about making your community a better place? Are you patient and skilled at fostering healthy relationships? If you want to find purpose through leadership and service to others, you’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for a Lead Behavioral Support Professional (also known as an Lead Intensive Support Associate) to join our team in Anchorage, Alaska.
Hope Community Resources, Inc. is a non-profit disabilities service provider based in Anchorage, Alaska. Founded in 1968, our company provides services and supports to people of all ages and abilities who experience an intellectual, developmental, or other disability, traumatic brain injury, or mental health challenge.
Responsibilities include:
- Scheduling shifts in the home providing overall management of the assigned home.
- Ensuring the health and safety of the support recipients and takes appropriate steps, utilizing agency or treatment directed supports and trainings to deescalate individuals who may become physically or verbally aggressive.
- Providing continual heightened vigilance in supervision and monitoring required for the safety of the support recipient and/or others while teaching activities of daily living, as well as social and communication skills to foster independence.
- Facilitating communication amongst all members of the support recipient’s team.
- Lead and supervise a team of direct support employees who work in the home, ensuring the implementation of the Plan of Care and/or support plan, Behavior Support Plans, Individualized Interaction Guidelines, Emergency Response Plans, and prescribed mental health coping strategies or treatment interventions, as applicable.
Education and Experience
- High School diploma or GED required. Equivalent combination of related education and/or work experience.
- Four years of experience providing direct support services required; one year of which involves supervisory experience required.
- Associate’s degree in Human Services, Health or Social Science, Special Education or other related field preferred. Emphasis of study in developmental disabilities preferred.
