What are the responsibilities and job description for the Residential Aide, Atlantic House Men's Shelter position at CAMBA?
What The Residential Aide Does
- Maintain professional relationships with clients and client confidentiality.
- Practice Universal Precautions/Standard Protocol & Procedures.
- Comply with any and all Federal, State, City and CAMBA security and privacy polices intended to protect the security and privacy of individually identifiable health information.
- Update and inform clients of program changes (i.e., food services changes, laundry assignments, etc.) through individual and group meetings.
- Assist with client bed-check every evening.
- Conduct dorm inspection to ensure client compliance with facility policies.
- Intervene and diffuse inappropriate client interaction, as necessary.
- Monitor clients’ behavior and report client changes in behavior or personal care to Supervisor and/or appropriate social services staff.
- Ensure that clients receive personal care products and laundry products weekly, and replace any personal care items as needed.
- Sort, count, and bag bed linens, blankets, and towels (may wash, dry and fold).
- Distribute clean bed linens, blankets, pillows, and towels to clients.
- Monitor clients' use of laundry facilities, including running new client’s belongings through the dryer.
- Strip former clients' beds and lockers, sort, bag, label and document belongings, carry bags to storage area, and store bags for safekeeping.
- Identify, sort, bag, label and document valuable client belongings (i.e., electronics, cash, documents, etc.) and give to Supervisor for storage.
- Follow client belongings policy and retrieve personal property of former clients upon their return.
- Escort clients, as needed.
- Check food deliveries for quality and quantity of items and report any issues to Supervisor.
- Prepare kitchen and dining facilities for mealtimes and clean up after each meal.
- Heat and serve prepared foods according to Food Standards Policy (i.e., follow menu, set portion sizes, food service hygiene, check temperature of meals, etc.)
- Store food according to the Food Storage Policy (i.e., check temperature of refrigerators, rotate food, etc.)
- Prepare paper goods, setups and condiments for mealtimes.
- Set up coffee and hot water urns before each meal.
- May collect garbage in bags and remove to appropriate storage location.
- May prepare and serve lunch.
- May plan, coordinate and facilitate social and/or peer support events for clients.
- Tasks may be modified, expanded and/or assigned over a period of time.
Salary : $19