Residential Aide Supervisor

Description

Compensation Range : $22 / hr - $25 / hr commensurate with experience

Benefits :

We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books.

Overview :

The Housing Works Emergency & Transitional Housing Program (ETH) provides time limited transitional housing and support services to individuals reentering the community following periods of incarceration or other justice system involvement. Program participants engage in a variety of onsite services, including case management, vocational training, housing advocacy and mental health support that address barriers to accessing housing in the community and help build skills that participants can use to achieve and maintain stable functioning in the community. The Fresh Meadows ETH Program site is specifically designed to provide transitional housing for individuals with substance use, mental health diagnoses or chronic medical conditions. To address these higher level of care needs, this site offers onsite medical, behavioral health and psychiatric services.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, this Residential Aid Supervisor position is primarily responsible for providing supervisory support during scheduled shifts, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of staff and program participants, engaging in crisis intervention as needed and monitoring and coordinating operational projects such as room inspections, room repair scheduling, post-discharge room turnovers and providing guidance and supervision of the Residential Aids.

Responsibilities : Primary :

• Provide supervisory oversight during assigned shifts.
• Provide guidance and support to the Residential Aids.
• Conduct thorough room inspections, thoroughly document observations with the larger teams and document room repairs.
• Work closely with Operations team leadership and hotel management to coordinate and monitor room repairs.
• Assist with the coordination of services for external vendors as needed.
• Coordinate with hotel management and oversee room turn over procedures to ensure rooms transition from offline to online and available for occupancy in a timely manner.
• Conduct wellness checks for program participants.
• Conduct frequent building walkthroughs and perimeter checks to manage the safety and integrity of the physical environment.
• Engage in crisis intervention and de-escalation in accordance to agency training and protocols as needed.
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation using the program's established tracking and data systems.
• Engage with program participants utilizing trauma informed care and motivational interviewing.
• Promote Housing Works' core values in day-to-day activities.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by supervisor.

Secondary :

Other functions that may be required with this position include :

Minimum Requirements

The following are qualifications and requirements of the position :

The following additional competencies are viewed as important to success in this position :

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Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State's first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit www.housingworks.org

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV / AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

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