Pick up per diem DSP shifts in West Palm Beach on your own schedule — keep 90% of every dollar, get paid the same day you work, and never let an agency decide where you go. ShiftCura is live in Palm Beach County as of June 15, 2026.
Direct Support Professionals provide daily living support, behavioral guidance, and community integration assistance for Floridians with intellectual and developmental disabilities. DSPs work across APD-funded group homes, supported living programs, and adult day training centers — and are in chronic short supply statewide, with Florida's group home and waiver program operators consistently unable to fully staff their rosters.
West Palm Beach is located in Palm Beach County, part of Florida's Tri-County region. South Florida's Tri-County area (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach) is the densest healthcare market in the state and the launch region for ShiftCura. The West Palm Beach healthcare market includes home health agencies, assisted living facilities, and skilled nursing centers serving the area's senior population, with consistent year-round demand for credentialed caregivers.
ShiftCura providers post shifts directly — some facilities in the West Palm Beach market may already post on the platform while others are being onboarded. Your feed shows only shifts from ShiftCura-verified providers.
Florida sets the bar for Direct Support Professional compliance, and every ShiftCura provider expects these before your first shift. Upload them once — your verified profile works across every provider on the platform:
ShiftCura's admin team verifies all credentials before your first shift. Upload once, work across every provider on the platform — no re-submitting paperwork for each facility.
Agencies tell Direct Support Professionals where to work, when to work, and what they're worth. ShiftCura shows you what's available and lets you choose. Here's what that actually looks like for Direct Support Professionals in West Palm Beach:
Work a morning shift at one facility, a night shift at another, a weekend at a third — in the same week. You build your schedule across multiple providers, not inside one agency's roster.
See open shifts with transparent rates. If a shift is paying more than your current job, take it. The market sets the rate in front of you — not in a closed-door conversation between a recruiter and a facility.
Every DSP on ShiftCura is effectively a travel caregiver within Florida. You're not bound to one facility's geography or one agency's dispatching. You move where the shifts are good.
You work for multiple providers simultaneously. No single bad dispatcher, no one bad manager, no one facility's politics controls your income or your next shift.
Agencies punish caregivers who turn down shifts or take time off — you get moved down the call list. On ShiftCura, you just don't accept shifts that day. The next day, your full shift feed is back. Time off without consequences.
Historically, Direct Support Professionals avoided one-off shifts because a single gig from a new agency meant fresh onboarding paperwork for no long-term payoff. On ShiftCura, picking up one shift is frictionless — tomorrow's shift is on the same platform, same profile. Single shifts become continuous income.
DSP per diem work gives you something most group home employment can't: predictable demand without being locked into one provider's scheduling decisions. ShiftCura connects you directly with APD-licensed group homes and waiver programs that need reliable coverage — no agency markup on your rate, consistent shift availability across multiple providers in your area, and 90% of every shift paid to you same-day.
Florida's caregiver workforce has been underpaid for too long. Staffing agencies historically skim 30-60% off every DSP rate before you ever see a paycheck. Medicaid reimbursement formulas still reflect numbers from a decade ago. The people doing the hardest work in healthcare have been getting paid the least.
Every shift you pick up on ShiftCura puts pressure on that model. When Florida Direct Support Professionals have a direct marketplace with transparent rates, the agency economic leverage breaks down — facilities that used to pay agency markups have to reconsider the math. Over time, rates have to follow, because the labor pool keeps moving to platforms that pay fairly.
This isn't just a better gig app. It's a structural correction to a broken market — and you're at the center of it.
West Palm Beach DSP shift rates typically run $16–$24/hr depending on facility type, shift timing, and experience — night and weekend shifts usually pay a premium on top of that. On ShiftCura, you keep 90% of that rate directly. No agency taking 30-60% before the money reaches you.
Here's exactly what you need: Florida APD-approved Direct Support Professional training, Level 2 AHCA background screening, Current CPR/First Aid, HIV/Bloodborne Pathogens training, HIPAA training, Government-issued photo ID. You upload each document once when you create your ShiftCura profile — the admin team verifies them before your first shift, and your verified credentials travel with you to every provider you work with. No re-submitting paperwork every time you pick up a shift somewhere new.
Most Direct Support Professionals are approved and picking up shifts within 1-2 business days of submitting their credentials. ShiftCura's admin team reviews documents Monday through Friday and notifies you by email as soon as your profile is cleared to work.
ShiftCura covers every direct care role in Florida — CNA, HHA, LPN, RN, OT, PT, Medical Assistant, DSP, DCW, and Companion. Your verified credentials determine which shifts appear in your feed. You only see shifts you're qualified to accept, so there's no sifting through postings that don't apply to you.
Signing up is free. No monthly fees. No subscriptions. ShiftCura takes a flat 10% platform fee only on completed shifts — that's the whole model. Compare that to the 30-60% staffing agencies skim off before you see a paycheck. Most Direct Support Professionals who switch to per diem work describe it as the biggest raise they've ever gotten without changing jobs.
Create your profile in minutes, upload your credentials once, and start picking up DSP shifts this week. Your schedule, your shifts, your paycheck.