What are the responsibilities and job description for the Housing Monitor (5478) position at THE SALVATION ARMY?
Schedule/Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 4:00pm to 12:00am
This position is responsible for:
- Accepts and processes residents staying in lodge/shelter overnight; receives and receipts fees received from residents; monitors the activity of residents on an assigned shift ensuring safety, security and compliance to house rules; maintains accurate and complete records and logs containing pertinent information; ensures that lodge/shelter is maintained in a neat and proper order.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensures that all rooms are in proper order before arrival of residents; checks fire equipment and ensures proper working order.
- Checks clients into the lodge; shelter; prepares and monitors client intake cards; determines if client has been prepaid by sponsor or credit; prepares resident roster and maintains resident property records.
- Monitors the activities of the lodge/shelter residents ensuring safety and compliance with house rules; checks the security of all windows and doors; monitors cameras and makes periodic rounds of entire facility; records any unique situations occurring on assigned shift.
- Wakes up lodge/shelter clients at designated time and instructs them to collect their sheets/ ensures that all residents are out of the lodge/shelter by the designed time.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
Ability to meet attendance requirements.
- Ability to read, write and communicate the English language.
- Ability to respond to emergency situations quickly and calmly while maintaining control and initiating the proper corrective action.
- Ability to perform combination of sitting, standing, and walking on a frequent change basis. Distance of travel is usually within the same building.
- Work is performed in a lodge/shelter facility where there are little or no physical discomforts associated with changes in weather or discomforts associated with noise, dust, dirt, and the like.
Qualifications:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- High school diploma or G.E.D.
- and
- one year experience performing security work or working in a social service environment,
- or
- any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS:
- None.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Veterans | Disabled