Housing Monitor (9383)

Schedule/Hours:   Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12:00am to 7:30am

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.

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.