Shelter Evening Supervisor

Overview

Work Hours:

2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Work days:
Thursday - Monday

Location:

919 Mission Rd., San Antonio, TX 78210

Mission: The Mission of St. PJ's Children’s Home is to be a safe and loving refuge for children in crisis and to accompany them on their journey to healing and wholeness, breaking the cycle of abuse and neglect one child at a time.

The Shelter Evening Supervisor under the general direction of the Shelter Program Director (or designee), assists the Program Director in establishing and directing the overall Shelter operation in a manner that promotes best practices and facilitates the optimum delivery of quality trauma informed services to residents and their children. This position is also responsible for maintaining adequate staffing levels at all times to ensure each resident’s physical, social, emotional, educational, and recreational needs are met.

• Responsible for leadership and daily supervision of direct care staff, Team leaders and Weekend Supervisor.
• Communicate expectations to staff as it relates to our trauma informed program and accomplishing program goals.
• Responsible for scheduling in a manner that meets licensing requirements and ensures the safety of our clients.
• Adhere to and maintain documentation in accordance with contractor requirements, state licensing standards, funding source requirements, St. PJ’s policies/procedures, and all accreditation body requirements.
• Ensures staff knows, understands and utilizes trauma informed care principles and competencies.
• Provide reflective supervision to promote the supervisee’s professional development and monitor application of trauma informed care principles.
• Conduct on the floor observations to monitor Residential Child and Youth Care Professional (RCYCP) and Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) competency progress and provide on‑going coaching and mentoring.
• Provide staff with verbal and written feedback as it relates to their job performance—positive feedback as well as corrective action, when necessary. Communicate staff performance with Program Director.

Advocacy:
Ability to support and engage in behavior that addresses systemic barriers and issues facing others, which may take place in a fast paced environment.

Critical Thinking:
Ability to actively and skillfully process and generate information and belief using a set of core skills – analysis, evaluation, inference, deductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning.

Solution Oriented:
Ability to identify various challenges, think outside the box, be innovative, and formulate possible solutions.

Developing Others:
Ability to see the potential in others and engage them in a way that leads to their ability and willingness to enhance their knowledge, skills and/or abilities to greater levels of proficiency.

Performance Management:
Ability to coach, set expectations, provide feedback, track progress, address performance concerns, and provide recognition for set objectives.

• Education
  • Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or a related field is preferred. High School Diploma required.
• Experience
  • Minimum of 2 years’ related experience, with experience providing oversight and supervision of staff is preferred.
• License and Credentials
  • Reliable transportation
  • Valid driver license
  • Valid vehicle insurance
  • LCCA or ability to obtain LCCA preferred

Must provide immunization/shot records.

Submit to a state and federal background check, Child abuse and neglect registry check, and Tuberculosis screening.

• Be physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of performing assigned tasks and have the skills necessary to perform essential duties and responsibilities.

• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Word, Excel) and a variety of online database systems, managing files and records, designing forms and other office procedures and terminology.
• Strong analytical and organization skills and abilities.
• Must be able to read and interpret policy, procedures and standards.
• Must be detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, work well independently and on a team.
• Must have good written…