Safety and Support Specialist, Full-time - Boston, United States - Commonwealth Land Trust, Inc.

Commonwealth Land Trust, Inc.

Verified Company

Boston, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Full time

Description

Commonwealth Land Trust

Safety and Support Specialist

CATEGORY:
Security/Supportive Services

Location:
scattered Permanent Supportive Housing sites in Boston, including Beacon Hill, South End, and Dorchester

Hours:
Full-time, 40 hours per week. Work primarily during nontraditional hours
- including evenings, overnights, weekends, and holidays.

Compensation:
$24.04 per hour. Full benefits available for full-time staff, including paid time off, health insurance, life insurance, and retirement account.

Required Experience/Skills

Demonstrated ability to work comfortably and effectively with people of varying racial/ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, language, socioeconomic differences and/or a diverse approach to life on a long term basis.
Experience or education relevant to working in a residential setting. Experience working with dualdiagnosed individuals, mental health and substance abuse issues preferred.
Residential experience in a health, inpatient, caregiver, and or clinical setting preferred
Must have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively, both written and orally
Ability to safely deescalate, respond to, and prevent crisis situations with mínimal supervision
AVADE training certified or willingness/capability to obtain certification upon being hired.
Ability to work empathetically with residents with special needs while ensuring that dignity, respect and compassion is maintained in all situations.
Help to foster and promote a positive and harmonious atmosphere at the house by presence, action and word.
Must be able to work evenings and weekends (40 hours for fulltime)
Ability to maintain confidentiality, comply with privacy requirements and maintain compliance with local, state and federal regulations.

Duties/Responsibilities _(including, but not limited to)_

Monitor access, activity and safety within the building after hours.
Work with clinical and live in support staff to establish "best practices" for interventions involving unauthorized guests, excessive noise, inappropriate behavior, trespassers, etc.
Respond to incidents in collaboration with livein staff and Senior Stability Coordinator
Complete daily logs, incident reports, and all other required documentation in an accurate and timely manner including building walkthrough reports, camera logs, and other shift related documentation.
Gain and maintain professional credibility with local first responding organizations.
Complete all mandatory staff and safety trainings
Operate video surveillance equipment
Complete resident and facility checks to ensure that residents are not at risk and that the facility is free of potential hazards during the shift and document in the daily logs
Conduct and document physical security inspections of premises and report issues to Maintenance and Senior Stability Coordinator.
Report and document any critical equipment outages, failures or disruptions (camera, fire, safety, etc.) to Maintenance and Senior Stability Coordinator by end of shift.
Participate in staff development and trainings
Other duties as may be assigned from time to time by supervisor.