Housing Monitor (5815)

Work Location: Parkersburg, WV

Work Schedule: Part Time (Up to 28 hours per week)

This position is responsible for:

Accepts and processes residents staying in lodge/shelter 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 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.

 

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

 

• Obtains clients signature on forms as well as lodge/shelter rules and regulations.

 

• 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.

 

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

 

• Opens and closes the lodge/shelter 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.

 

• Sorts client intake cards in numerical order and files remaining intake cards of clients who did not check into the lodge/shelter for the evening.

 

• Assigns housekeeping and other tasks to residents; ensures that clients perform assigned house duties in the proper manner; ensures compliance with house rules.

 

• Answers telephone and responds to questions regarding the lodge/shelter operations.

 

• 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 designated time.

 

• Answers the crisis hot-line and provides crisis intervention through telephone interviews and client counseling where applicable.

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 of travel 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.

 

• 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.

 

Employee Benefits:

• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Savings Plan Available
• Supplemental Insurance Available
• Voluntary Life Insurance and more!

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or G.E.D. AND
• One-Year Experience performing security or social service work preferred. 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