Direct Support Professional (DSP)
What We’re Looking For:
As a DSP (Direct Support Professional) in Residential Services, you’ll support adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in their homes by assisting with daily needs, teaching life skills, encouraging independence, and promoting a safe and meaningful home life.
What You’ll Do:
Why UCP?
Join Our Team!
Change lives. Including your own – Apply today.
UCP Central PA is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to jobs@ucpcentralpa.org
UCP Central PA has been creating opportunities for people of all ages with all types of disabilities for nearly seventy years.
Today our nearly 1,500 employees deliver on our mission as we empower 1,500 people with diverse abilities each year to live a meaningful life through innovative support and services. We are planting seeds daily until we achieve our vision of a community that embrace’s every individuals’ abilities.
We encourage a life without limits for people who are born with a disability, acquire a disability through illness, accident or injury, or are aging into a disability through our comprehensive service offerings.
• We offer children who are experiencing delays in meeting developmental milestones various therapies to help them reach their full potential
• We deliver a broad system of support for the entire family including grandparents and siblings
• We provide the support, resources, and access that helps people secure, maintain, and succeed at competitive, meaningful employment
• We help people lead more independent, full, and engaging lives while volunteering, working, shopping, or participating in recreational opportunities
• We are building strong community connections by matching each person’s strengths, preferences, and abilities with available local opportunities
• We provide a place to call home, and a nurturing and supportive family environment rich with life experiences for people
• We provide the opportunity for people to manage their own supports and services
• We restore and refurbish home medical equipment and assistive technology devices and redistribute to the community free of charge
• We make everyday living easier, and otherwise impossible tasks possible for people
