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Direct Support Professional Reviews
What is it like working as a Direct Support Professional?
September 2019
Fun, enjoyable, stressful,
Direct Support Professional in Ithaca:
Pros: Fun, putting smiles on the individuals faces
Cons: Pay raises
September 2019
Not appreciated by higher up.
Direct Support Professional in Rochester:
Pros: House manager,understanding of hours
Cons: Turn over rate of employees and pay
August 2019
Working at this job is sometimes difficult because I am the only African American there and all other employees including management is African.
Direct Support Professional in Washington:
Pros: Working with the disabled young woman
Cons: I think that some management sometimes put their people before me
July 2019
It's like you're on fire and they're pouring gasoline on you and telling you that it's your fault that you're on fire. Also, they can extinguish you in about 8 months.
Direct Support Professional in Altoona:
Pros: The pay and the actual job itself.
Cons: Management.
July 2019
Giving others the chance to have as normal a life as possible.
Direct Support Professional in Harrisonville:
Pros: Interacting with the individuals, making them laugh and have fun.
Cons: The stress of management not helping with hard situations.
June 2019
The truly thankless job.
Direct Support Professional in Grants Pass:
Pros: Helping others who need it gives them joy, which gives me joy. At the end of the day I'm buzzing.
Cons: When the individuals we support get frustrated and physical.
June 2019
Very rewarding and meaningful position.
Direct Support Professional in Watertown:
Pros: I like seeing firsthand the positive result of the exceptional quality of care I provide to the clients I serve.
Cons: Direct Support Professionals have no differential according to level of care provided, as it relates to statistics and pay scale on a national and regulated job title. A D.S.P. who provides skilled nursing care is not differentiated or scaled any different than an employee with the same title who may run errands and do light housework. This results in alarmingly low overall starting wage for DSPs in companies like HIL. For this reason, quality of care and integrity of recruits has become greatly degraded, the ultimate cost of which is inevitably passed on to clients.
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