Housing Monitor

Seasonal Housing Monitor
24/7 Shelter Operational Schedule - M - SDay

Shift: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Warming Station Operations)

Evening Shift: 4:00 PM – 12:00 AM (Overnight Shelter)
Night

Shift: 12:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Overnight Shelter)

Note:

Operations run on a 24/7 continuous schedule utilizing rotating staff shifts to ensure around-the-clock coverage.

This position is responsible for:

Accepts and processes residents staying in a housing facility overnight; 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 the housing facility 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 housing facility; prepares and monitors client intake cards; determines if client has been prepaid by sponsor or credit; prepares resident roster and maintains resident property records.

Prepares and distributes meal tickets and laundry tokens; distributes towels, linens, and personal hygiene items; secures and distributes client medications as required.

Monitors the activities of the 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.

Responds to emergencies in a calm manner and initiates appropriate corrective actions in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Opens and closes the house doors at designated hours of operation.

Completes required paperwork representing client intake for the day; inputs data into the computer in order to maintain computer records and generate client lists; prepares, tallies, and balances monies with receipts; drops the money in the safe.

Sorts client intake cards in numerical order and files remaining intake cards of clients who did not check into the housing facility for the evening.

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 combinations of sitting, standing, and walking on a frequent change basis. Distance oftravel is usually within the same building.

Limited amount of physical effort required associated with walking, standing, lifting and carrying light objects (less than 25 lbs.) 5-10% of work time.

High school diploma or G.E.D.andone year experience performing security or social service work preferred,orany equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Equal Opportunity

Employer:

Veterans I Disabled