Family Model Provider - Community Options
Cookeville, TN 38501
About the Job
Description
Are you passionate about helping others? Are you a caring, compassionate, and reliable person? Here is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on someone’s life – become an Family Model Provider! This is a chance to help make a difference by opening your home to an individual with developmental and/or physical disabilities.
Open your home to someone with a disability!
We are seeking someone in the Cookeville, TN area who is available to provide a safe and comfortable home, while ensuring the basic physical and emotional needs required for our individuals to live a high-quality life. You must have the ability to establish a comfortable, supportive, and genuine relationship with the individual you house and support. This independently contracted position will provide a 24/7 family-like setting for an individual.
This role will help care for an individual in need of assistance with medical appointments and minor assistance with grooming.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be comfortable living with a cat
- High School Diploma/GED
- Valid Driver's License
- Previous experience working as a Direct Support Professional is required
- Will need to successfully complete trainings through Community Options
- Must be open to supervisory visits in your home
Our Family Model Providers are contracted and reimbursed at a per diem rate PLUS they receive monthly room and board from the individual they support – this income is tax exempt.
For more information call: 931-372-0955
If interested, please click “Apply Now” or send resume to: Resumes-CK@comop.org
Community Options, Inc. is a national non-profit agency providing services to individuals with disabilities in 10 states.
Community Options is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V