**Work Schedule is Saturday & Sunday 6:00am to 3:30pm. Bilingual candidates encouraged to apply. Bi-Lingual Pay - One hundred twenty-five dollars per paycheck for threshold languages to serve our monolingual clients**

Pay rates for Union positions are set in the Collective Bargaining Agreement with SEIU Local 521. Each position has a total of six steps, Step 1 (entry level) through Step 6 (15 years of employment with the organization). Union staff are promoted from Step 1 to Step 2 upon their one-year anniversary. The current Step 1 rate for this position is $27.27/hr, and the current Step 6 rate for this position is $30.11/hr.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Enter information into the daily log, including descriptions of any incidents, altercations,

mother-child interactions, or medication discrepancies. *

• Oversee the day-to-day activities of clients and their children, including regular rounds, chores

completed at scheduled times, attending scheduled groups, and ensuring proper supervision and safety of all clients and children.*

• Monitor and assist mothers’ positive parenting activities, providing crisis intervention as needed.
• Provide client access to their medications and ensuring correct dose and medication are being provided. Inventory client medication per shift.*
• Regularly scheduled and emergency transportation for clients, including appointments, grocery shopping, WIC, and others as needed.*
• Track daily census of clients.*
• Conduct scheduled and random urine and oral drug testing.*
• Set up bedrooms for potential clients, including bedding and welcome baskets. Clean bedrooms of outgoing clients and submit maintenance requests as needed.*
• Communicate thorough shift exchange with incoming staff, including client updates and pending to-dos for the shift.*
• Conduct facility, room, and client searches as needed, including all incoming packages and personal items brought for clients.
• Conduct end-of-month report, including inventories of food, medicine, and supplies, fire and safety checks, and any maintenance requests as needed.*
• Participate in trainings and achieve certifications as required by federal, state, and county licensing requirements.*
• Conduct client checks and take vitals per the organization’s Withdrawal Management Policy.*
• Provide childcare coverage as needed.
• Provide coverage for admission and discharge paperwork as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED: (E = Essential; D = Desired)

• Must have a high school diploma or GED. (E)
• A valid California Driver License, with access to a reliable vehicle/for driving a company vehicle, current proof of auto liability insurance, and a clean DMV record. (E)
• Working knowledge of common computer software programs including MS Office, Excel. (E)
• Filing skills (alpha, numeric, date). (E)
• Some experience working in a multicultural setting with women and children affected by the disease of addiction and having possible mental health diagnoses. (D)
• Sensitivity to female privacy interests and prior domestic abuse. (E)
• Experience of social model methodology and 12-Step recovery principles. (D)
• Bilingual (English/Spanish). (D)
• Strong personal boundaries matched with compassion. (E)
• Experience role modeling recovery concepts, healthy life skills, and positive parenting skills to maintain a positive environment for recovery. (D)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Regularly required to sit, stand and walk up and down a small hill. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds (strollers, supplies, small children).

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Primary work is performed in a residential setting with short periods of time at an office desk. Will be exposed to clients in various states of undress.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENT:

Local travel to training, client appointments, and other as needed errands may be required.