Description
Are you looking for a deeply meaningful and influential job in the human services/social work/psychology field(s)? As Shelter Relief Advocate, you will be responsible and vigilant, helping the community and providing care to shelter resident clients. You must maintain a safe, clean, non-threatening, open, inclusive environment for shelter residents, ensuring needed resources such as (nutritional or transportation) for those in crisis situations. Be a part of the reason why someone improves their livelihood starting today. Apply Now!
Position Summary:
Responsible for providing supportive services to shelter resident clients, assessment for those seeking emergency services, advocacy, and referrals to community agencies.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain a safe, clean, non-threatening, open, inclusive environment for shelter residents.
- Provide clients with resources to meet their basic, personal, nutritional, and transportation needs, not limited to responding and accurately documenting safety issues in a fair, professional, and consistent manner.
- Maintain frequent contact with shelter clients, while building positive, professional relationships with them.
- Carry out shift operational activities.
- Input direct service and collateral time into client database according to policies and procedures.
- Maintain a strong sense of time management.
- Must feel comfortable navigating crisis situations with survivors and their children.
- Answer service line; provide exceptional customer service to include communication to advocates and on-call emergency response adhering to all procedures in the handbook.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Frequent crisis situations and working under stress.
- Light physical labor such as lifting groceries, laundry baskets, and cleaning/making beds.
- Must be able to move about a residential structure.
- Possible exposure to communicable diseases associated with communal living.
- Toleration of moderate to loud noise level.
Schedule:
Weekdays (M-F) 5 pm – 10 pm
Weekends (Sat & Sun) – 8 am – 8 pm
Back-up for night shift (Mon – Th) 10 pm – 8 am
Backup for night shift Fri – Sun 8 pm – 8 am
Backup is used to relieve full-time staff on vacation, etc. However, it is rarely needed.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $13.00 per hour
Work Location: In person