Cape Abilities·Hyannis, Massachusetts
The Residential Direct Support Professional provides instruction and support to individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. They encourage the development of life, social, and recreational skills while ensuring a safe and loving home environment.
NOTHING is more important than home. It's where we feel safest, happiest, and loved.
Cape Abilities provides safe, happy and loving homes to individuals across Cape Cod and WE NEED YOU to help us make sure those homes thrive.
JOIN US TODAY and become one of our Residential Direct Support Professional staff. You’ll provide instruction, and support, and serve as a positive role model to individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. You’ll also encourage the development of life, social and recreational skills, community, and health care access.
In other word’s you’ll make a real difference in providing a safe, happy and loving home for those who need it most.
The Residential Direct Support Professional provides instruction, support, and serves as a positive role model to individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, autism, acquired brain injury or other unique challenges. DSPs are expected to encourage development of life, social and recreational skills, community and health care access. Provides direct, active, and constructive interactions with individuals in collaboration with colleagues, supervisors, clinical staff, community members, and families.
Essential job functions
Implements Individual Service Plan (ISP) objectives and behavior plans as required by Clinical team.
Provides personal care assistance to supported individual(s).
Provides assistance to individuals in preparing meals that are nutritious and in compliance with physician’s dietary orders.
Provides one-on-one supervision to individual as assigned by the treatment goals, behavior plans and other relevant plans in a non-intrusive manner to ensure individual’s safety.
With appropriate certification, administers medications and other specialized treatments in compliance with state and Agency guidelines.
Remains awake and alert during overnight shifts unless authorized by management to sleep.
Assists individuals with maintaining a clean and sanitary household.
Assists individuals in attending medical appointments, as assigned by management. May cover off-site work shifts for hospital stays. Ensures health care practitioners complete required documentation.
Provides assistance and support to individuals with scheduling and attending social and leisure activities.
Assists individuals with attending religious faith workshops or services.
Completes written reports including shift reports, program objective documentation, incident reports and other reports as directed by management.
Maintains regular, open lines of communication and a positive rapport with co-workers, families, supervisors and Department of Developmental Services (DDS) or Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) representatives.
Attends required meetings and trainings.
Adheres to program routines and schedules to ensure the individual needs are met.
Provides transportation to individuals to appointments and social activities utilizing the Agency assigned vehicle, when available.
Assists individual supported in managing personal finances in full accordance with Agency policy and procedures and DDS regulations.
Ensures basic human rights, well-being and safety of individuals is respected at all times.
Adheres to all supervisory directives and follows all established protocols when providing one-on-one support to individuals.
Serves as mandated reporter for suspected cases of abuse and/or neglect to the Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC) or Elder Abuse Hotline, as appropriate.
Performs additional duties, as assigned.
Preparation, knowledge, skills & abilities
High school diploma or equivalent required.
1 year of direct care, CNA, or human services experience preferred.
Ability and willingness to provide hands-on personal care.
Must be able to effectively communicate in both verbal and written form with coworkers and supported individuals and read fluently.
Valid driver’s license in the state of Massachusetts required.
Successful completion of all state and Agency mandated trainings required upon hire.
Successful completion of Medication Administration Training certification required upon hire.
No supervisory responsibility.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to do this job. The above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required.
A high school diploma or equivalent is required, along with a year of direct care or human services experience preferred. Candidates must be able to provide hands-on personal care and communicate effectively.
Market context
Physician roles in Massachusetts are often tied to active clinical, research, and trial-focused environments, so demand tends to favor candidates who can work across patient care and research-related activities. These positions can be competitive because employers may look for a blend of education, years of related experience, prior clinical trial exposure, and certifications. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to quickly compare fit against the original job description, and be ready to highlight any research or trial experience in your application.
