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Direct Support Professional Reviews
What is it like working as a Direct Support Professional?
August 2016
Flexibility.
Direct Support Professional:
Pros: Being there for the client, flexibility.
Cons: Supervisor not acting on concerns.
May 2016
Good.
Direct Support Professional:
Pros: I love the people I support and the staff.
Cons: I don't think we get paid enough.
May 2016
Direct Support Professional:
Pros: It's rewarding to help people daily.
Cons: I would like to be paid more for my position.
May 2016
Exciting.
Direct Support Professional:
Pros: The individuals that I support and encourage.
Cons: Mandatory meeting every first of the month.
April 2016
Pay.
Direct Support Professional:
We work hard at what we do and the pay should show it not stay at just about the same pay since we started the individual give joy in my life love what I do just want to be appreciated.
March 2016
Under paid in Rhode Island.
Direct Support Professional:
Pros: I like the people I help.
Cons: Poor management, the manager is stretched thin and choses not to work in the two homes on the provided shifts. Has said that he/she likes to do her other programs. Uses the other programs to be busy in and needs to get to know the residents like the last manager did.
January 2016
Non-rewarding.
Direct Support Professional:
Pros: Seeing smiles on clients face.
Cons: Not appreciated.
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