Direct Support Medical Transporter

Base pay $22.50/hr.

Being a Medical Support Transporter has many advantages!

As a Medical Support Transporter at Devereux you will be a critical part of a multi-disciplinary team of dedicated experts who share your passion for helping children and adultsin need. The primary responsibility for this position is to maintain a nurturing environment within the center that is conducive to healthy and therapeutic emotional healing and growth of children and adults. Provide transportation to and from medical appointments.

We offer: A comprehensive benefit package paid training student tuition assistance and opportunities for professional growth. Every day you will have the opportunity to:

Actively assist children with their individualized plans for daily living
Ensure medical appointment scheduling occures with all relevant parties
Maintain mandated medication certification and dispense medication as assigned
Complete medical inventory and ordering for assigned program
Schedule and transport children to doctors appointments and other important activities

We provide special treatment for adolescents and adults with emotional behavioral intellectual and developmental disorders including Autism Spectrum Disorders and co-occurring mental health and behavioral health disorders. The emphasis at Devereux is to teach coach and support our clients to learn daily living skills coping skills and social skills while staying active and having fun.

You will add value by:
Maintaining a safe and therapeutic treatment environment that meets the physical emotional and personal needs of program clients while improving functioning and minimizing interfering behaviors.
Providing client documentation to include shift reports incident reports and individual progress notes.

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Full-Time Benefits include (but are not limited to):

• 24 personal days off/year
• 8 sick days/year
• Blue Cross Insurance & High Deductible plans available
• FSA or HSA
• Cigna Dental plans
• Davis Vision plans
• Pet Insurance plans
• Tuition Reimbursement Program between 75-100% coverage
• 3% automatic contribution to 403b retirement account (TIAA Financial) after a year of service & discretionary 2% match
• Free Life Insurance up to 2x annual salary

Job Requirements:
21 years of age or older
High School Diploma/GEDrequired. Associates Degree preferred.
Valid drivers license

One year experience preferred.

Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
Be able to lift up to 50 pounds and perform Safe and Positive Approaches

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

Company Overview

Devereux is one of the nations largest nonprofit organizations providing services insight and leadership in the evolving field of behavioral healthcare. Founded in 1912 Devereux operates a comprehensive national network of clinical therapeutic educational and employment programs that positively impact the lives of 10000 children adults and their families every year.

Our Mission: Devereux changes lives by unlocking and nurturing human potential for people living with emotional behavioral or cognitive differences.

With nearly 6500 employees working in programs across the country Devereux is a trusted partner for families schools and communities serving individuals in the areas of autism intellectual and developmental disabilities specialty mental health education and foster care.

Our Culture Our Expectations

At Devereux Servant Leadership is embedded throughout our culture and every aspect of our organizational framework. Our mission-driven people-first mindset is at the heart of the compassionate and high-quality programming we provide every day for the individuals and families we serve and other key stakeholders. Devereux offers challenging and exciting work and our team environment creates an empowering positive and rewarding atmosphere. To be successful at Devereux you will: put the needs of others first feel called to serve and called to lead. As a member of our team you will be a significant part of our commitment to providing a welcoming and supportive work environment across all programs and services and within all policies and employee practices.

We believe a workplace rooted in inclusivity offering a sense of belonging to all those who walk through our doors is fundamental to delivering the highest quality healthcare services. Through open dialogue and the creation of brave spaces we will engage in work that gives each of us a chance to change the world one person one family one community at a time.

What Devereux Offers You

In addition to a competitive salary Devereux provides a comprehensive health and welfare program to eligible full-time employees family members and domestic partners. Eligible employees are eligible to start benefits after 30 days of addition we offer;

• Medical (including telemedicine via phone web app) dental prescription drug preventative care and mental health services.

• Student loan debt assistance tuition reimbursement and continuing education assistance.

• Generous time-off (start accruing 1st day) 403(b) retirement plan with matching benefit and voluntary/employee paid supplemental life and accident coverage.

• Employee assistance / work-life balance program.

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Devereux is a drug-free workplace drug screening required. EOE