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Healthcare Caregiver at Colorado Department of Human Services

*$2,000 Sign On Bonus!*

Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for a great benefit package! See below

No experience necessary, only a strong desire to learn.

  • Are you looking for a rewarding career in healthcare?
  • Do you enjoy helping people reach their full potential?
  • Are you interested in learning how to support adults with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities to live fulfilling and independent lives?

What you will be doing:

  • Coaching and mentoring individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities
  • Assisting individuals with learning personal care and domestic care skills
  • Implementing behavior programs to decrease the performance of problem behaviors, to develop replacement behaviors and to teach coping and safety skills
  • Responding to crises by following approved verbal and physical interventions to ensure safety
  • Assisting individuals with various therapy/treatment
  • Ensuring appropriate documentation
  • Provide supervision and support to individuals while at home
  • Provide transportation, supervision and support individuals when in the community

Description of Job:

The Health Care Service Trainee (HCST I) gives hands-on direct support to individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. These positions provide people we serve with opportunities to achieve the highest level of independence in the areas of health, safety, and activities of daily living (eating, bathing, dressing, and personal hygiene). These positions sustain a therapeutic milieu for people served while utilizing sound practices to ensure safety and security of the environment. The HCST I provides psychiatric and behavior-based treatment, while assisting those served to reach their maximum level of independence.

Experience: None

Education: None

Preferred Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Experience working with people who have developmental/intellectual disabilities
  • Experience working with people who have mental health diagnoses

BENEFITS:

  • Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Planwww.copera.orgplus 401(k) and 457 plans
  • Medical and dental health plans
  • Employer supplemented Health Savings Account
  • Paid life insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
  • BenefitHubstate employee discount program
  • Employee Wellness program MotivateMe
  • Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more
  • Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $17.22 per hour

Benefits:

  • Dental insurance
  • Employee discount
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Referral program
  • Retirement plan
  • Tuition reimbursement

Schedule:

  • 10 hour shift
  • 12 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Evening shift
  • Night shift

Work Location: One location

  • Health insurance

Location :Wheat Ridge, CO

Application Deadline :4/06/2023

 

HOW TO APPLY FOR THE JOB ROLE  
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