Job Details

Resident Monitor

NSC-Greenville SC Area Command - GREENVILLE, SC

Job Description

Location: The Salvation Army Greenville, SC Area Command - Greenville, SC

Position Type: Hourly

Pay Range: $10.25

About this opportunity:

This position monitors the activity of residents on an assigned shift ensuring safety, security and compliance with 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. Serves as an example of grace in relationship with and encouragement of each Emergency Refuge resident.

Key responsibilities:

• Completes all necessary paperwork and accurately keypunches the information into HMIS database system.
• Monitors the activities of the resident's ensuring safety and compliance with house rules; checks the established policies and procedures, in an effort to instruct and develop and not in an effort to punish.
• Opens and closes the house doors at designated hours of operation.
• Assigns housekeeping and other tasks to residents; ensures that residents perform assigned house duties in the proper manner; ensures compliance with house rules. Addresses shortcomings in an effort to develop skill set, not in an effort to punish.
• Conducts campus security checks as assigned, taking responsive action if required and logging details of completing the same bullet points notes of pertinent activity.
• Conducts breath alcohol checks on all residents entering the shelter facility and thoroughly inspects all property being brought into the facility to ensure compliance with house rules.

What are we looking for in you:

• High school diploma or G.E.D. and one year experience performing security or social service work preferred, or
• Any equivalent combination of training experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• CPR and First Aid Certification.
• Knowledge of general office procedures and practices.
• Knowledge of basic record keeping practices and procedures.
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients in order to control, lead, and motivate behavior.
• Ability to work with the public encompassing all types of behaviors.
• Ability to extend grace in the face of rebellion without becoming emotionally upset.
• Ability to work independently and with limited supervision while staying within established policy and procedural boundaries.
• 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.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

Ability to meet attendance requirements. 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 25lbs.) 5-10% of work time.

Work is performed in a transient lodging environment where there may be physical discomforts associated with temperature variations, odors, violence, noise, disease, and/or dust under mildly unsafe and uncomfortable conditions.

Employee Benefits:

• Aflac and Voluntary Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plan and more!

Why Work for Us

The Salvation Army offers a broad range or career opportunities, particularly targeted toward those motivated by our mission, to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

The Salvation Army strives to do the "Most Good" for its employees by offering a greater sense of purpose in the work performed, by training and mentoring employees and by offering competitive compensation and benefit plans. Whether employed as a truck driver, administrative support team member or the director of a program, our employees understand at the core of their work in this opportunity to be an integral part of an organization that is Doing the Most Good.

Five values at the heart of everything we do...We are...

• Passionate
• Compassionate
• Uplifting
• Brave
• Trustworthy

Additional Information:

All employees recognize that The Salvation Army is a church and agree that they will do nothing as an employee of The Salvation Army to undermine its religious mission.