Direct Support Professional 1
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
Get ready to make every day meaningful! As a Direct Support Professional, you’ll be part of a lively, mission-driven team that uplifts adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Your positivity, creativity, and enthusiasm help spark confidence, inspire growth, and create joyful moments that matter.
If you’re someone who loves bringing energy into a room, building connections, and celebrating wins both big and small, this role will fuel your passion and purpose every single day.
A Little About You:
We are looking for people are passionate about working with special needs adults. If you have experience working with our population, even better!
As an employee, you will be responsible for:
- Creating a positive environment for your participants to socialize, learn occupational skills, and care for their physical needs. Yes, there is a lot of singing and dancing involved;
- Keeping notes of your participants’ progress. You may be in a group of 4, or you may only have one participant, and we want to know about the amazing things they learn each day;
- Accompanying your participants in the community where you will guide them as they practice social and community living skills;
- Driving our participants to community outings and maintaining the vehicles you drive. We need excellent drivers to take them on new adventures in our company-provided cars. Driving is an essential duty for all DSP positions;
- Instructing and championing self-advocacy and self-sufficiency by reinforcing healthy eating habits, good choices and proper grooming and hygiene;
What We Offer:
Most programs only work Monday through Friday, so you can have your weekends free! Most of our employees typically work from 8:00am to 2:30pm, and anyone who works more than 30 hours is eligible for medical, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance. Even better, we provide PTO, sick leave and holiday pay. Last, but not least, we offer a starting hourly pay rate of $21.00 with opportunities to grow with continued working experience at Vocational Visions (Non-exempt).