Day Program Direct Support Professional
Direct Support Professional (DSP) – Day Support Options
Monday–Friday | 8:00 AM–3:30 PM | Starting Pay: $19.20/hour | Outstanding Benefits | 3 Weeks Vacation in Your First Year
Help Someone Have a Great Day — and Build a Life They Choose
Are you someone who enjoys being active, connecting with people, trying new things, and helping others discover what they can do?
The Arc of Litchfield County, Inc. (LARC) is looking for compassionate, energetic, and dependable Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) to join our Day Service Options (DSO) Program.
This isn't a job where you sit behind a desk all day — and no two days have to look exactly alike.
As a DSO DSP, you'll support adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) as they build skills, explore interests, participate in their communities, develop relationships, and work toward personal goals.
Your job isn't to plan someone's life for them. It's to listen, encourage, support, and create opportunities for each person to have meaningful experiences and greater choice in how they spend their day.
What Could Your Day Look Like?
One day you might help someone learn a new skill or work toward an individual goal. Another could involve volunteering, exercising, visiting a local business, participating in a community activity, working on communication or social skills, or discovering a completely new interest.
You may:
- Support individuals in participating in meaningful community activities and experiences
- Help people explore hobbies, interests, recreation, volunteering, and social opportunities
- Teach and reinforce skills that increase independence
- Support goals identified in each person's individualized plan
- Encourage choice, self-advocacy, confidence, and decision-making
- Help individuals build relationships and connections within their community
- Develop engaging activities based on people's interests, abilities, and goals
- Provide transportation and support individuals while participating in community activities
- Assist with personal care and other individual needs when required
- Observe progress and accurately document services, goals, and important information
- Work collaboratively with coworkers, managers, families, and members of the team
Most importantly, you'll focus on strengths and possibilities — what someone enjoys, what matters to them, what they want to learn, and what they would like to accomplish.
We're Looking for More Than a Caregiver
Great DSPs don't simply supervise people.
They engage. Teach. Encourage. Listen. Notice. Create opportunities.
We're looking for someone who can walk into work and ask:
"What can we make possible today?"
You don't need to have all the answers. You do need to be curious, dependable, patient, creative, and willing to get involved.
Because you're supporting people who depend on you, reliability and follow-through matter. You'll also be responsible for completing required documentation and following individual plans, safety practices, and applicable DDS, DPH, Medicaid Waiver, OSHA, HIPAA, and LARC requirements.