Supportive Living Companion - North East Arkansas
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The Supportive Living Companion provides individualized services and activities in consumers’ homes and communities, following person-centered plans to support self-help, socialization, adaptive skills, and independence. The role includes training and supporting individuals in daily living and home management, reporting incidents and changes, documenting services, and maintaining required personnel documents. Multiple weekday and weekend schedules are available across Jonesboro, Blytheville, Harrisburg, Marion, and Paragould.
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This job was posted by https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.arjoblink.arkansas.gov/jobs/4883779 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION The Supportive Living Companion works under immediate supervision, provides individually tailored services and activities within the consumer's home and community; ensures services are delivered as designed to assist in acquiring, retaining, and improving the consumer's self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills and activities that relate directly to active treatment, goals, and objectives; reports incidents to appropriate contact(s);completes activity logs that occur during the work time frame as linked to the person centered plan objectives; provides other documents as required; and maintains compliance with required personnel documents. POSITON 1: MONDAY-FRIDAY, 3:00PM-8:00PM (JONESBORO) POSITON 2: SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 7:00AM-11:00PM (BLYTHEVILLE) POSITION 3: MONDAY-FRIDAY, 3:00PM-11:00PM (BLYTHEVILLE) POSITION 4: SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 7:00AM-11:00PM (BLYTHEVILLE) POSITION 5: SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 7:00AM-11:00PM (JONESBORO) POSITION 6: SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 7:00AM-7:00PM (HARRISBURG) POSITION 7: SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 7:00AM-7:00PM (MARION) POSITION 8: SATURDAY & SUNDAY, 7:00AM-6:30PM (PARAGOULD) POSITION 9: MONDAY-FRIDAY 7:00AM-3:00PM (PARAGOULD) POSITION 10: MONDAY-FRIDAY, 3:00PM-11:00PM (PARAGOULD) POSITION 11: MONDAY-FRIDAY, 11:00PM-7:00AM (OVERNIGHT) (PARAGOULD) ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Provides services and activities to the consumer within their home and community as determined by goals and objectives in a person centered plan. 2. Trains and supports individual in independent living skills, home management skills, cooking, cleaning, socialization, including supported employment in the community, and other identified skills needed to foster independence. 3. Follows procedures within 24 hours for incidents identified according to Department of Human Services policy. 4. Completes activity logs that occur during the work time frame as identified within the person centered plan objectives. 5. For any change affecting the individual, reports, as applicable, any change affecting the individual receiving services. 6. If necessary, ensures the consumer is reminded when it is necessary to take and/or refill medication. 7. Completes and provides documents as required. 8. Meets initial and on-going annual training requirements. 9. Maintains compliance with required personnel documents. 10. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE High School diploma or GED; One (1) Year of relevant, supervised work experience with public health, human services or other community service agency; OR Two (2) years' verifiable successful experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities. CNA Certification or Medical Assistant certification will qualify for a special entry rate. Additionally, all Supported Living Companions hired after 11/01/07 must have the following: 1. The ability to understand written activity plans, execute instructions, and document services delivered. 2. Have the ability to communicate effectively with consumers. 3. Have the ability to access emergency service systems. 4. Have the ability to access transportation services required as appropriate. 5. Have satisfactorily passed a criminal background check, and adult and child maltreatment registry checks. Criminal background and adult maltreatment checks must be repeated every five (5) years, and child maltreatment checks must be repeated every two (2) years. 6. Have completed a drug screen prior to employment in accordance with the organizations policies and procedures. \ MUST BE ABLE TO PAS S APPLICABLE BACKGROUND CHECKS AND DRUG SCREEN. ANY OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT WILL BE BASED ON THE RESULTS OF BACKGROUND CHECKS AND DRUG SCREEN. \ \ For more information, or to apply now, you must go to the website below. Please DO NOT email your resume to us as we only accept applications through our website.\ \
How this job compares
Set against the 677 open Direct Support Professional jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$19–20/hr545 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 677 open Direct Support Professional jobs across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Direct Support Professional postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (223 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 449 of the 677 open Direct Support Professional jobs (66%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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