Direct Support Professional

Life Skills Coach/Direct Support Professional – Part-Time to Full-Time

Join a mission-driven team where your compassion, creativity, and reliability are valued—and build a real career path in human services, not just a job.

Pay: $24-$27.00 per hour (Dependent Upon Experience)

Schedule: Part-Time to Full-Time Hours Available (10–40 hours/week)

About Us

At Cypress Independent Living Services, Inc. (Cypress ILS), we believe that every Intellectually Disabled Adult deserves the chance to live with dignity, independence, and joy. We are one of the Bay Area's leading providers of services for adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and we've built our reputation on compassion, professionalism, and heart. When you join our team, you're not just taking a job—you're joining a purpose-driven community where every day is an opportunity to make someone's life brighter.

What You'll Do

As a Life Skills Coach (LSC), you'll spend your time out in the community—not stuck behind a desk. You'll walk alongside clients where they live, work, and socialize, helping them build confidence and independence in their daily lives.

• Work Independently out in the community with your clients
• Use your personal vehicle to travel to your clients home and around the community to help them achieve their goals (we pay you for mileage!)
• Use your personal life's experience to coach and guide your client's to meet their life's challenges
• Be supported 100% with your job and clients via highly trained Cypress ILS Team

You'll serve as:

• A Partner – helping individuals lead independent, self-directed lives.
• A Teacher – using creativity to teach skills like cooking, budgeting, and communication.
• An Ambassador – fostering inclusion by connecting clients to their communities.
• An Advocate – supporting individuals in making choices and standing up for their rights
• A Supporter – encouraging personal goals and celebrating every milestone.

You don't make decisions for our clients—you empower them to make their own, with support from families and professionals.

Qualifications

• Friendly, outgoing, and dependable
• Ability to work independently
• At least 18 years old
• Reliable vehicle, valid driver's license, and at least minimum insurance coverage
• Acceptable driving record (no DUIs)
• Experience working in Human Services a PLUS

Compensation: $24.00 - $27.00 per hour

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our Focus

Cypress ILS provides its clients with various services focused on such aspects as basic skills development, community awareness, and employment training. But, it is not simply in the attainment of a job or arriving at a doctor's appointment on one's own that Cypress seeks for its clients. All the services are geared towards one main goal, the philosophy of Cypress: Informed Choice. To empower the client to this next level of functionality and choice is what Cypress strives for and attains each and every hour of the day with our Consumers. To be able to choose what he or she believes is right for his or her own life, and having the ability to chose because the client has been informed and experienced in any number of situations that individuals face in everyday life.... this is the goal of Cypress. Not only to be able to choose...but to able to choose because one knows what the choices are." Our services are goal-oriented and are driven by the philosophy that the more independent individuals are in their daily lives, the more successful they will be.

Careers

Working at Cypress Independent Living Services means feeling empowered to make a difference and inspired to deliver Direct Care to Seniors and Developmentally Disabled Adults. Cypress ILS one of the larger independent providers of Direct Care Services in the South Bay Area. We believe that We're transforming the Direct Care services industry and are looking to bring on talented professionals with varied perspectives like you. At Cypress ILS, we acknowledge and value our differences as well as our combined strengths. We want all employees, regardless of their background, to feel respected personally and professionally. We cultivate a working environment that inspires new ideas, promotes ownership and experimentation, and supports highly-motivated individuals to be truly creative. Do you want to help Seniors and Developmentally Disabled Adults to live better, more fulfilling lives? Are you bright, caring, and organized? If so, Cypress ILS may be the perfect place for you to grow your career!