Service Associate, Hygiene Hub

About St. Anthony’s

Founded in 1950, St. Anthony's is the most comprehensive safety net service center in San Francisco, directly providing food, clothing, medical care, addiction recovery services, access to technology, job training, and other critical resources to the community. Every day we support and are supported by thousands of San Franciscans. Everyone who comes through our doors joins the St. Anthony's team and helps us create a future where all people flourish.

Principal Responsibility

The Hygiene Hub provides free access to showers, toilets, laundry machines, personal care products, and a fresh change of clothes to anyone who is in need. The Service Associate plays a key role in administering the successful delivery of showers, laundry access, urgent-need clothing, and other hygiene-related services to St. Anthony’s clients. Our team is committed to providing trauma-informed care and service, recognizing that St. Anthony’s routinely serves individuals who are in a state of crisis related to experiences of poverty, homelessness, and other challenges—while also possessing strengths that can be built upon with our support. In the spirit of our Franciscan values and heritage, our team provides compassion and care daily. As a steward of healing and social justice, you are expected to meet the following duties:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities   

Guest Engagement

• Treat all guests with empathy, dignity, and respect. Seek to understand the other person's perspective and experience.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively across cultures and an openness to learning about cultures not familiar to oneself.
• Execute a variety of functions that are essential to the successful delivery of showers, laundry access, urgent-need clothing, and other hygiene-related services to St. Anthony’s clients; this includes conducting screening and intake of clients, assisting clients in utilizing the services, enforcing policies and protocols, maintaining clean and well-stocked facilities, and recording data related to services provided and client demographics.
• Refer guests to other hygiene resources as needed, including St. Anthony’s Medical Clinic, Free Clothing Program, and Resource Center, among other service providers.

Program Administration and Operations

• Helps ensure a safe, secure environment for clients, volunteers, and other staff. Observes safety procedures and precautions. Aware of and assists in the identification of job hazards and personal safety risks, and attempts to prevent or resolve them through the maintenance of physical spaces, de-escalation of interpersonal conflicts, and implementing first aid or overdose reversal response. Initiates emergency calls as necessary.
• Contributes to the general maintenance, upkeep, organization, and re-stocking of inventory in the Hygiene Hub on an ongoing basis.
• Complete reports and all other paperwork neatly, legibly, and thoroughly.
• Enter data and information electronically as required. Looks up data and reports electronically through a database as requested.
• Understand and follow the organization's programs, policies, and procedures
• Participate in regular training and development opportunities to increase personal capacity to apply innovative approaches to daily workflows, service delivery, and guest care and engagement.

Teamwork

• Participate in relevant meetings supporting team communication and the program's capacity to fulfill organizational goals and mission.
• Collaboratively works with others to achieve team success.
• Manage stress and pressure situations calmly and responsively. Maintain the capacity to control reactions and awareness of how their behavior or response can impact others.
• Consistently demonstrate integrity while working and representing St. Anthony’s.
• Practice direct, respectful, open, and honest communication with their colleagues. Proactively seeks support from team members or management.
• Demonstrate cooperation with coworkers, management, and the community at large.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED preferred.
• Prior career or personal life experience providing insight into populations facing homelessness, poverty, or other adverse conditions.
• Excellent interpersonal, listening, oral, and written communication skills are required.
• Ability to be polite, diplomatic, and firm. Can set limits and practice professional boundaries with guests, volunteers, donors, and coworkers.
• Ability to respond to emergencies and high-pressure situations in a self-composed and self-assured manner.
• Experience with conflict de-escalation skills is preferred. Must complete Crisis Prevention training within 3 months of hire.
• P.R./First Aid certification preferred. Must complete certification within 3 months of hire.
• Ability to work non-traditional hours and days (weekends and holidays required).
• Ability to complete paperwork neatly and legibly.
• Computer literacy with essential applications: email, databases, word processing. Ability or willingness to learn to use information and communication technologies (computers, smartphones, and iPads) to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information.
• Ability to be punctual, reliable, cooperative, and stay team-oriented.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to lift and carry bags and boxes weighing up to 50 pounds over 10 feet, with attention to safety.
• Willingness to wear protective personal equipment (PPE) while working, including non-slip shoes.
• Proficiency in a second language is strongly desired (Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, Cantonese).
• Experience working in a non-profit or community-based social service agency with people experiencing homelessness or poverty desired.
• Commitment to St. Anthony Foundation Statement of Values and a desire to work for a social services agency serving the poor.

St. Anthony’s has a diverse workforce, welcoming all ethnicities, faith backgrounds and worldviews. We are also proudly Catholic. Our Franciscan identity is at the core of our mission, namely to uphold the dignity and value of the human person and lift the spirits of those in need to help create a society in which all person's flourish.

People of color, differently-abled people, LGBT, and folks with lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply.

St. Anthony's is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity of culture, thought, and lived experiences. We seek talented, qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, conviction history, uniform service membership/veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical conditions, genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression regardless of physical gender, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

St. Anthony's uses E-Verify to validate our new employees' eligibility to work legally in the United States.

Salary : $46,658 - $56,658