Direct Support Professional (DSP)

✨Part-Time Direct Support Professional (DSP) Opportunities Available in East Providence, RI!✨

Schedule

• Wednesday &
• Sunday 8:00AM- 4:00PM

**$1,000.00 Sign-on Bonus!! (Pro-rated for Part-Time)

Excellent opportunity to join our dedicated and compassionate team at Cove Residential to help make a real difference in the lives of adults with autism and other developmental disabilities! If you're a team player with a caring heart who's ready to be there to help, then we'd love to have you join our Cove Residential family!

• Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) help provide supervision and support to clients in our residential group home setting.
• We offer ongoing education, experiences and a supportive staff that emphasizes the individual's role in making choices to give them greater control of the direction of their life.
• You can be a part of a making a positive impact on their lives each day you come to work.
• You would provide hands-on, person-centered individualized care and support for our residents.
• DSPs/Residential Behavior Specialists work with a supportive team that includes the Residential Manager, Residential Assistant Manager, other DSPs and more to support up to six male residents in our home.

• Excellent Comprehensive Benefit Package for Full-Time!!
• Low staffing ratios
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mileage Reimbursement

Education, Experience and Skills Needed

• Minimum of 1 year of experience required working with individuals who have autism and developmental disabilities; 3+ years of experience preferred
• High School diploma
• Must be able to read, write, and speak in English proficiently
• Ability to speak, see & hear clearly/audibly, as well as write legibly for documentation
• Basic computer skills
• Professional and respectful communication skills with clients and their families or other parties
• Ability to intervene with clients when needed to implement behavioral inventions including physical restraint, lifting and transporting in personal vehicle or company van