Resident Teach (Direct Support)

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Resident Teacher www.wncgrouphomes.org Western North Carolina Group Home for Autistic Persons provides residential care, life skills education, and vocational training, specializing in working with individuals on the autism spectrum who have significant behavioral challenges.   The primary responsibility of the Resident Teacher is the care and personal development of each of the residents at the group homes.  A Resident Teacher is a member of the Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) that evaluates, provides services for, and monitors the progress of each resident at the group home.  The Resident Teacher ensures that each resident learns, to the best of their ability, activities of daily living, in as much a normalized life as possible.  Direct care tasks include teaching residents activities of daily living, like hygiene, leisure, money management, community safety skill and adherence to a daily schedule.  Resident Teachers use therapeutic relationships to provide consistent care and opportunities for residents to learn.  Each Resident Teacher is expected to demonstrate minimum competence in problem solving, taking initiative, resident rights, quality of service, organization and teamwork. WNC Group Homes is proud of the caliber of its employees, and expects its employees to be committed to the goals and objectives of the organization. WNC Group Homes regards its employees as a very important asset.  Meeting our residents’ needs requires a harmonious, performance oriented working environment.