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Come join our life-changing team building hope, resilience, and well-being as a DSP Lead! Responsible for the supervision and support of persons with developmental and/or mental disabilities in a group home setting and acts as an informal leader on the team. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Promotes and assists in the development of a safe, wholesome, orderly, and therapeutic living environment for the residents. Provides and participates in recreational, educational, and social activities that meet resident's physical, intellectual, and social needs. Provides life skills training. Drives residents to activities in the organization's van as needed. Provides medication administration to program participants. Assists with menu planning, and grocery shopping. Assists with staff scheduling. Assists with everyday household needs. Observes, reports, and documents resident behaviors and actions. Effectively and professionally communicates with all members of the treatment team, program participant families, and other outside professionals. Participate and moderate program group meetings. Provide a healthy and appropriate model for residents to emulate. Assures proper medical care is provided as needed by residents. Assists with medical appointments. Assists with staff training. Respond appropriately, as prescribed by program, to crisis situations as they occur. Understand and apply principles, as determined by program, of behavior management. Know, understand, and follow program and organizational policies, rules and procedures Display proficiency working with staff and residents of different cultural and/or gender backgrounds. Assures program participant privacy is maintained by being knowledgeable and following HIPAA privacy and security regulations. Covering direct care shifts as needed for essential coverage which may result in possible overtime. Must be able to work regularly scheduled working hours, typically evenings and weekends.