Direct Support Professional - Birch Family Services
(2025-05)
- Provide a safe and clean environment for the individual based on skill level and risks.
- Use verbal and physical means to create a positive environment that will encourage and enable individual growth.
- Assist the individual in the development of social skills that will help the individual become integrated/ included in his or her community.
- Perform protective oversight while engaging in community activities.
- Monitor each individual's personal health on a continuous basis (during situations of high activity, while bathing/showering/swimming, in the morning and the evening, at meals, while in the community, at all times).
- Assist individuals in learning and practicing skills necessary for home living (indoor household chores such as, but not limited to, cooking, sweeping, dusting, bed-making, vacuuming, and dish-washing, laundry, folding and storing clothes, etc.).
- Perform advocate responsibilities, while demonstrating respect for the processes and people involved.
- Responsible for all documentation related to the essential function and services for the individual.
- Working with individuals whose age ranges from childhood to adulthood.
Counselor - ICL
(2023-11 - 2024-05)
- Routinely performed facility inspections to ensure safety measures and proper care of areas are met
- Establish proper protocol on emergency planning and incident reporting
- Review staff communication logs, incidents and overall program management
- Schedule and host regular team meetings and training
- Monitored medication dosage and distribution to appropriate administrative teams
- Observe residents to develop treatment and rehabilitation plans and programs
- Supervised meal preparation and other general care task protocols
Paraprofessional - Department Of Education - New York, NY
(2021-10 - 2022)
- working with students with special needs in groups and individually during lessons, assisting with lesson plans and materials
- Teaching daily living skills such as independent feeding, dressing, toileting
- Encouraging good behavior
- Raised child performance by 21% through listening, setting reachable, engaging goals and advocating for the children
Caretaker - NYCHA - New York, NY
(2015-11 - 2020-08)
Performed the following duties as a caretaker.
- Drive NYCHA pickup Truck around the developments to collect garbage
- Removal or snow and encumbrances
- Spread sand and salt over icy pavements
- Clean the ramps, drains, roof & canopies
- Kept grounds clean
- Cleaning of vacant Apartments as required
- Wash windows and walls of public spaces
- Light bulb changes on public grounds
- Cleaning of incinerators
- Service air pollution and compact equipment
- Collect garbage and put out containers containing raw garbage
- Strip and Wax floors
- Removal and replacement of refrigerators
- Removal and replacement of stoves
