Community Peer Support Caregiver

Kindly Direct Care; Hazlet Township (NJ); On-site; USD 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Kindly Direct Care in Fair Haven, NJ is seeking a Direct Support Professional to work one-to-one with an adult with developmental disabilities. You will help build routines, social skills, independence, and community connections, while modeling positive behavior and safe decision-making.

The role involves taking the client to clubs and activities, coaching daily living skills, maintaining documentation, and communicating closely with the team. Schedule Tue and Thu 2:30-6:30, weekends flexible.

Qualifications

• Dependable, engaging, patient, and able to build rapport.
• Experience in mentoring, coaching, education, recreation, behavioral health, human services, disability support, or caregiving is a plus.
• Able to commit reliably to the exact schedule posted below.
• Driving required.
• Able to complete required onboarding, background checks, and training.

Responsibilities

• Take the client to clubs and activities and engage in various leisure and social moments.
• Coach daily living, communication, social, and independence skills.
• Help establish positive routines and work toward individualized goals.
• Provide companionship and a consistent mentoring relationship while ensuring safety and following instructions.

Skills

Dependable

Engaging

Patient

Rapport building

Job description

Looking for meaningful work where you can be a mentor, coach, and positive influence? Kindly Direct Care is hiring a Direct Support Professional in Fair Haven, NJ to work one-to-one with an adult with developmental disabilities.

About This Opportunity

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys helping another person build confidence, routines, social skills, community connections, and greater independence. The strongest candidate will be consistent, encouraging, active, and able to build trust over time.

You May Spend Your Shift

• Participating in taking a 21-year-old modrately functioning individual with autism and ADHD to clubs and engaging with him there in various activities.

• Coaching daily living, communication, social, and independence skills.

• Helping establish positive routines and work toward individualized goals.

• Modeling problem-solving, appropriate communication, and healthy community participation.

• Supporting decision-making, self-advocacy, and confidence.

• Providing companionship and a consistent mentoring relationship.

• Maintaining safety and following individualized support instructions.

• Completing required documentation and staying in close communication with the Kindly team.

Qualifications

• Dependable, engaging, patient, and able to build rapport.

• Experience in mentoring, coaching, education, recreation, behavioral health, human services, disability support, or caregiving is a plus.

• Able to commit reliably to the exact schedule posted below.

• Driving required.

• Able to complete required onboarding, background checks, and training.

Schedule: Tues, Thurs. 2:30-6:30, Weekends flexible.
Pay: $17-$21/hour
Location: Fair Haven, NJ
Driving on shift: Required