Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Benefits:
- Paid Training
- Referral Program
- 401(k)
Are you a compassionate, caring person who finds joy in helping others?
OPEN POSITION (s) :
We are looking for support staff in multiple locations, including
Grass Valley listed below. All openings have the opportunity to pick up additional hours on call, as well as potential flexibility to be combined for additional hours. Please apply on our website @
newstartsls.org/careers
- SLS Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays 5:30 pm to 10pm (about 4.5 hrs each)
- IHSS* Mondays 6 pm to 11 pm (5 hrs) and Fridays 9:30 am to 5:30 pm (8 hrs)
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Supportive Living Services (SLS) is a program designed to provide in-home and community-based assistance to adults with developmental disabilities who live in their own homes and want to make their own choices.
At New Start SLS, we believe that individuals with developmental disabilities thrive when they make their own choices about where they live, work, and how they spend their time and resources. By taking control of the choices that control their lives, people with developmental disabilities can better direct their own futures. Through patience, guidance, encouragement and Person-Centered Planning, we support the individuals we serve to develop the confidence and skills they need to make meaningful choices, reach self set goals, as well as experience fulfillment and greater independence.
As support staff, each shift offers new experiences and the reward of knowing youve made a difference. In this position, a few examples of the type of work you will be doing may include assisting the individual with: learning daily skills and activities, menu planning, grocery shopping, cooking, budgeting, cleaning, using public transportation, making and attending appointments, volunteering, and participating in social leisure activities.
Other duties include, but are not limited to:
- Provide in-home and community based assistance to consumers according to individual service programs set up by Alta California Regional Center and New Start SLS.
- Documenting of daily charting notes.
- Reporting of issues and concerns regarding consumers to New Start Case Manager.
- Attending in-service training sessions when offered, as well as complete continued education monthly.
- Some of the individuals we support use electric or manual wheelchairs, receive assistance with adaptive equipment for transfer, and may require personal care assistance (ex: toileting, bathing, brushing teeth, wound assistance).
- Staff will be sensitive to the ethnic, lifestyle, and cultural diversity of our consumers and their circle of support. Staff will encourage, and help achieve consumer success.
QUALIFICATIONS + PRE-REQUISITES:
- Must be able to speak, read, and write English.
- Must have a High School Diploma or equivalent GED.
- Staff must be able to work with and support individuals who have disabilities and have at least 1 year of paid or volunteer experience supporting individuals with disabilities. This may include caregiving, teaching, coaching, tutoring or personal lived experience.
- This position may require staff assistance with transportation support. To be eligible to drive clients, staff must be willing to use their personal vehicle during employment. Eligibility requires review and maintaining copies of valid CA drivers license, current drivers insurance, and a clean DMV Driving Record with the office.
- By Day 1 of Orientation staff must show proof of current CPR and First Aid certification from an in-person or hybrid based course.
- By Day 1 of Orientation staff must show evidence of a negative TB test and a clear physical exam from within the last year.
- *We are helping an individual find their IHSS support staff. If not already certified, candidates must be willing to complete certification as part of the hiring process. Pay rates for IHSS Nevada County shifts are set by IHSS. As of August 2025, the pay rate for IHSS in Nevada County is $17.75 per hour.
- SLS Grass Valley Starting Pay Rate: $22 per hour.
** Please apply on our website @ newstartsls.org/careers **
New Start SLS Privacy Statement: No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. New Start SLS will not use contact information given to us for marketing purposes. New Start SLS uses telecommunications (including text messaging) to communicate with employees, clients, the Alta California Regional Center, and others as needed to provide Supportive Living Services; we do not use telecommunications for marketing or solicitations.
By giving your phone number, you are authorizing New Start SLS to send you text messages and/or call you. Messaging frequency will vary. Your carrier message & data rates may apply. All applicants agree to be contacted via telecommunication. Any applicant wishing to opt out of communications from New Start SLS can email office.newstartsls@gmail.com or reply stop to text messages. Employees may not opt out of communication from their employer.
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