Direct Support Professional - Supported Employment Focus
Direct Support Professional - Supported Employment Focus
Posted 8 days ago
SENIORITY
Mid
About the role
- Provide individualized job coaching at community workplaces
- Teach job duties, workplace routines, time management, communication, and professional behavior
- Help individuals understand and meet employer expectations
- Support individuals in building confidence, independence, and long-term employment stability
- Provide on-site training, supervision, advocacy, and problem-solving
- Communicate regularly with individuals, workplace supervisors, families, and interdisciplinary team members
- Identify barriers to employment and help develop practical support strategies
- Follow each individual's service plan, employment goals, behavior plan, supervision requirements, and safety protocols
- Complete daily service notes, employment tracking, progress updates, and billing documentation within required timelines
- Communicate concerns, changes, incidents, and employment progress to the appropriate team members
- Provide transportation to job sites, community activities, and other authorized services
- Use trained crisis-prevention, de-escalation, and NVCI techniques when needed
- Report suspected mistreatment, abuse, neglect, or exploitation as a mandatory reporter
- Supporting individuals during group activities and community outings
- Providing supervision during program hours and transitions
- Leading recreational, volunteer, educational, or skill-building activities
- Teaching communication, social, community-safety, and independent living skills
- Supporting individuals with behavioral, personal care, mobility, or other needs within the employee's training
- Providing transportation and maintaining required supervision in community settings
- Following individual service plans, behavior plans, and program protocols
- Must be at least 18 years old due to driving responsibilities
- Valid driver's license and reliable transportation required
- Willingness to transport individuals receiving services in a personal or agency vehicle as assigned
- Ability to meet required motor vehicle record and insurance standards
- Ability to work independently in community and workplace settings
- Strong communication, patience, reliability, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to complete accurate electronic documentation on time
- Ability to remain calm and professional during behavioral escalations or emergencies
- Ability to work with individuals who may display unpredictable, aggressive, or high-risk behaviors
- Willingness and ability to perform trained NVCI physical interventions when necessary to maintain safety
- Ability to meet the physical requirements of employment and Day Program assignments
- Ability to pass required criminal background and protection-services checks
Before you apply
Applying takes about a minute. These four things decide how fast it moves after that.
Your profile is current
It's what we read first. Occupations, seniority and locations matter more than a long history.
Two examples you can talk through
Not a portfolio — just two pieces of work where you can explain the decisions and what you'd change.
A number in mind
What you're on now and what would make you move. We negotiate better when we know both.
Your notice period
Employers plan around it, and it's the question that stalls offers most often.
Once you apply, someone reads it and calls you before anything reaches the employer — usually within two working days.
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