Want a career with meaning?
Living Opportunities is looking for energetic, dynamic individuals to join our growing team! We are a progressive, innovative agency with a 50-year history of providing cutting-edge support services to individuals who experience intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. We are currently looking for individuals who like to work with passionate, caring, and all around love what we do.
APPLY NOW and be eligible to receive a $500 sign on bonus!!!!
****No experience needed****
We are very excited to announce our new Interviewing Platform through VideoAsk! If you are interested in working with us you can complete the Pre-Screening instantly by visiting https://www.videoask.com/fzdv2y9su. This is quick and easy, and allows our managers to review your interview and to help determine which location you would be most successful working at. After you complete the pre-screen watch your email for an invite to interview. You could be working with us as soon as next week!
Living Opportunities offers competitive pay and great benefits including medical insurance that the employer pays more than 97% of the premium (employee cost is less than 3% of overall premium, or $13 dollars a pay check). Additionally, Living Opportunities has great dental and vision insurance options as well as many other great benefits like a generous paid time off (vacation/sick leave) benefits, education assistance and a National Professional Certification program (NADSP). Starting wages between $18.50-$20.50 based on position offered and experience. Full time, Part time, Night Shift and Substitute positions available.
- Apply online today at www.workforlopp.com. For more information about Living Opportunities, visit us online at www.livingopps.org
Living Opportunities is consistently named one of the 100 Best Nonprofits to Work for in Oregon since 2010!
Direct Support Professional
- The Direct Support Professional position supports individuals who experience developmental and intellectual disabilities in their homes and in the community.
- Direct support professionals assist people who need support to lead self-directed lives and participate fully in their communities. Direct support professionals recognize the unique gifts, preferences and needs of each person supported.
- Direct support professionals recognize the personhood of people they support. They partner with them in making informed decisions and everyday choices about their finances, well-being, relationships, and employment.
- Direct support professionals realize that their role includes being a mentor and a facilitator. Direct support professionals inform the people they support regarding their responsibilities and advocate with them for their valued role in society.
- Direct support professionals empower people they support to have meaningful relationships with friends, their families, and promote integration and inclusion in all our nation’s communities.
- Direct support professionals respect the privacy of the people they support and commit to promote their physical and emotional well-being.
Additional duties of this position include:
- Exhibiting sound judgment relative to providing support to individuals who experience disabilities.
- Effectively and professionally communicating both verbally and in writing.
- Have effective time management skills with ability to perform multiple projects within deadlines.
- Maintain ability to work independently with little direct supervision.
- Have general office organization skills, including filing, scheduling, correspondence and phone reception.
- Possess entry level computer and email skills.
Apply online today at www.workforlopp.com AND for more information about Living Opportunities, visit us online at www.livingopps.org
Work Remotely
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $18.50 - $20.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- We are required by Oregon Administrative Rule to ask the following question.
Please answer truthfully.
Have you ever had a founded report of child abuse or a substantiated finding of adult abuse?
Please answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’
If your answer is ‘Yes,’ you may be asked to provide additional information so we can review the circumstances in accordance with applicable laws and our hiring policies. Answering ‘Yes’ does not automatically disqualify you from employment. Any information you provide will be reviewed as part of our hiring process.
- Do you have a clean driving record? How many years of licensed driving experience do you have? Do you have reliable transportation that you will be able to use while you are on the job?
- This position also requires that you take a pre-employment drug test, a criminal background check, as well as a physical assessment. If you are offered this position, are you willing to submit to this pre-employment process?
- How many years of direct support experience, working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, do you have?
- What is your shift availability? Are you available to work evenings, weekends, or even overnights? If you have specifications surrounding your availability can you please explain?
Shift availability:
- Day Shift (Preferred)
- Night Shift (Preferred)
- Overnight Shift (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Medford, OR 97501 (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Medford, OR 97501: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
