Direct Support Professional
- $14.04 p/hour
- Healthcare
- Full-time
- direct support professional
- personal care
- daily living skills
Direct Support Professionals provide essential assistance and guidance to individuals with disabilities, helping them develop daily living skills to achieve greater independence. They ensure safety, emotional support, and aid with personal care, household tasks, and goal setting. This role demands empathy, excellent communication, time management, and a strong commitment to inclusion and advocacy.
We're looking for Direct Support Professionals to join our team!
As a DSP, you will provide support and guidance to people served as they learn and develop important daily living skills and life activities to live as independently as possible.
You will love this job if you are:
- A natural helper - you possess the natural instinct to help people feel more relaxed, safe and confident;
- A top-notch listener - you hear the one-of-a-kind stories in every person you meet and naturally embrace each person's uniqueness;
- A dedicated teacher - you have a knack for sensing the emotions of others and enjoy helping others explore and learn;
- A proud advocate - you have an innate desire to stand up for people who need a voice
- A born go-getter - you are always looking for ways to add value, improve processes, build others up, and make the world a better place.
- Assist with the development of important daily living skills and life activities by creating an environment where people can learn, grow and discover;
- Help people identify and achieve the goals most important to them in order to live their best life possible;
- Monitor the comfort and safety of the people we serve while ensuring their medical, nutritional and personal care needs are being met; and,
- Demonstrate emotional support while assisting with general housekeeping, meal preparation and laundry duties.
This job may be the perfect fit for you if...
- You have a passion for helping others
- You're an effective, clear communicator - both written and verbal
- You're practically always on time (or early) and strive to exceed expectations whenever possible
- You have excellent time management skills and are able to juggle multiple responsibilities while communicating honestly about your timelines, challenges, and questions.
- You do whatever it takes and the phrase "That's not my job" is not a part of your vocabulary.
- When you hear the word inclusive or inclusion, you know that is you. People are people and you consider yourself a people person!
Commitment to Mosaic Values:
At Mosaic, we believe in creating a workplace where everyone has the chance to contribute and succeed. This commitment is not just a policy, it's the way we work. It's good for the workforce, it's good for Mosaic, and it's the right thing to do.
- Desire to make a positive difference in people's lives. No experience or educational requirements needed. We provide thorough training.
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Valid U.S. driver's license required, where applicable.
- Work requires frequent physical activity including extended periods of standing, walking, and bending with occasional periods of sitting, kneeling, climbing, stooping, crouching, squatting and balancing.
- Work also requires constant reaching between knee and shoulder level as well as frequent reaching below knee level and overhead.
- Work requires occasional independent lifting up to 25 pounds, frequent push/pull up to 40 pounds of force and the ability to safely transfer 50 pounds.
With 75 million new people to feed each year and a growing worldwide middle class, the global food supply needs to keep pace. This imperative creates the opportunity for The Mosaic Company to deliver on its mission to help the world grow the food it needs. Mosaic is a global leader in the crop nutrient industry - the only company with the ability to produce and deliver two vital crop nutrients, phosphate and potash, on a massive scale. Mosaic engages in every phase of crop nutrition, from the mining of resources to the production of crop nutrients, feed and industrial products for customers around the globe. Mosaic encourages an open dialogue on its social media outlets. In doing this, we ask that all users remain respectful and considerate. The following types of comments are not acceptable on our page: vulgar/profane language, personal attacks, spam/advertisements, and comments that are off topic.

