$22.29-$25.63 HR/DOE
Join our Team! We offer an excellent benefits package!
3 weeks vacation * 12 days sick leave * 13 holidays* medical * dental* vision* life insurance * LTD * AD&D * pension * 403b * catastrophic & accident ins
Bertha’s Place is a 62 unit, non-congregate shelter for people experiencing homelessness. The population served is one third single women, one third couples with a female head of household, and one third people over 55. Bertha’s place is a secure access 24-hour/7-day a week low barrier shelter with the primary goal of helping support residents to regain permanent housing.
Shelter Staff provide supervision, program structure, behavior management and a wide range of basic needs services, as well as more advanced social services. This includes helping guests navigate a myriad of social service agencies, forms and interviews. Staff are trained in behavior management, basic case services, as well as Motivational Interviewing and other counseling skills.
- Shelter Responsibilities
- Ensure a safe, welcoming, supportive environment for shelter guests and staff.
- Monitor traffic at the front door and outside of the facility in the immediate area surrounding the shelter, ensuring only residents of the shelter or authorize personnel enter the building.
- Develop supportive relationship with guests by using motivational interviewing strategies.
- Respond to guests who are in crisis, disruptive, or having medical emergencies.
- Provide behavioral management for a diverse population including individuals with chemical dependency and/or mental health issues.
- Write timely, professional, and behaviorally descriptive Incident Reports or Ban Reports when incidents or disruptive behaviors occur.
- Provide services, resources, and information to guests.
- Work with volunteers, the volunteer coordinator, and community partners to provide food and meals for guests.
- Help maintain health and safety of the facility as well as monitoring client rooms for health and safety concerns.
- Security Responsibilities
- Monitor behaviors in and around the Bertha’s Place and parking lot assuring policies and procedures are enforced.
- Provide information and referral services to guests and homeless individuals.
- Patrol parking lot and immediate surrounding areas to ensure the safety of guests, residents, and businesses.
- Make contact with businesses in the patrol area to form and maintain positive community relations.
- Coordinate with other the Bertha’s Place Shelter staff for back up to deal with challenging situations.
- Coordinate with Bertha’s Place staff that are monitoring the security cameras.
- Utilizes the Vancouver Police Department as needed.
- Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED.
- Must obtain Food Handler’s card within first 3 months of employment.
- Experience working with diverse populations including people with active mental health and chemical dependency issues is a plus.
- Possess good verbal and written communication.
- Applicant must successfully pass required background checks prior to an offer of employment.
- Ability to provide a negative TB test.
- Must have an acceptable driving record per CCS’ driving policy, (required to provide current driving abstract)
- Must have reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, and automobile Insurance.
- Support and uphold the mission, beliefs and values of Catholic Community Services and Catholic Housing Services
- Support and contribute to a creative, collaborative and respectful environment that promotes teamwork
- Demonstrates the necessary attitudes, knowledge and skills to deliver culturally competent services and work effectively in multi-cultural situations
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