- High School diploma or GED
- Some basic prior human services trainings
- Advanced training in human services work
- Previous experience working with a Housing First/Stabilization Model
- Minimum of one (1) year prior work experience working with individuals suffering from complex disabilities in a shelter, community residence, or in an inpatient setting
- Experience maintaining a safe environment for clients in a program setting
- Familiarity with the concepts of rehabilitation and consumer empowerment
- Some knowledge/understanding of mental innless conditions and dual diagnosis individuals
- Experience working with dually diagnosed individuals
- Experience assisting people with ADL skills
- Effective writing and verbal skills
- Previous experience working with a Housing First/Stabilization model
- Previous experience working with the homeless population
- Previous experience working with dual diagnosis and/or untreated mental illness
- Ability to respond to individuals in crisis
- Ability to climb multiple sets of stairs quickly and frequently
- Ability to assist certain individuals with ADL skills
- Ability to work with tenants with untreated psychiatric conditions
- Ability to work with a harm reduction approach to substance abuse
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks
- Ability to tolerate stress and display patience
- Ability to resolve conflicts diplomatically with supportiveness and nurturance
- Ability to set limits when needed, and observance of appropriate boundaries
- Ability to be open minded about exploring creative new ways to help clients maintain housing stability
- Willingness to use continuing education as a tool to gain ideas for improving client outcomes
- Be responsible for the overall safety and security of tenants in the program
- Ensure that program is clean and safe at all times including but not limited to floors being clean and tidy, kitchens, hallways, bathrooms etc.
- Conduct inspections of individual tenants rooms to ensure that they are safe and free of clutter.
- Stock shared kitchen during shift
- Complete inventory list at least monthly
- Confer and collaborate regularly with other program staff
- Touch base regularly with each tenant to see how each seems to be doing
- Communicate any observed issues or problems via the log and verbal reports
- Maintain positive relationships with other employees around the Inn and other departments such as Food Services, Mens Inn, Outreach, and Housekeeping
- Participate in keeping the outside of the building secure
- Set a tone of respect and support for all tenants of the program
- Work with tenants to reinforce good ADL skills, including personal hygiene, and leisure time activities
- Assist tenants in cooking, laundry, and other activities of daily living as needed or requested
- Assist tenants in finding ways to have a restful nights sleep
- Guide the chronically mentally ill tenants in an intentional progression towards increased autonomy, improved life skills, and enhanced quality of life
- Involve tenants in milieu to enhance connectedness with life satisfactions and responsibilities
- Attend team meetings for staff to give input and perspective
- Meet with the Residential Supervisor regularly for supervision
- Maintain necessary records in a timely fashion
- Encourage tenants to be responsible neighbors
- Due to emergency or unforeseen program needs, staff may be temporarily or permanently reassigned to another Behavioral Health Division programs at any given time.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Residential Supervisor
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Awake Overnight Residential Counselor - Boston, United States - Pine Street Inn
Description
SCHEDULE:
16 hours, Weekdays and/or Weekends, 11:00 p.m. - 7:30 a.m. (every weekend)
Pays $21.40 per hour
LOCATION:
41 New Chardon Street, Boston, MA
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Summary of the Position:
The Awake Overnight Residential Counselor is responsible for the overall safety of the tenants in the program at the 34 New Chardon Street residence under the Behavioral Health Division of Pine Street Inn, a program that provides permanent housing to formerly homeless women using a Housing First/Stabilization model.
The mission is to provide trauma-informed, gender sensitive and gender specific support services that meet the special needs so they can heal and have time to heal, prepare to reintegrate into the community, and break the cycle of homelessness.
The Awake Overnight Residential Counselor will assist tenants in performing Activities of Daily Living (ADL) skills in the early morning hours, create, and maintain a respectful atmosphere that empowers very chronic, mentally ill tenants to reach their highest level of functioning.
REQUIREMENTS:
Education/Training:
Required:
Preferred:
Knowledge/Experience:
Required:
Preferred:
Physical Abilities/SKILLS:
Required:
Mental Abilities/SKILLS:
Required:
Essential Functions Include But Are Not Limited To:
INTERNAL CANDIDATES, IF INTERESTED IN APPLYING FOR THIS POSITION, PLEASE SUBMIT A PROMOTION/TRANSFER APPLICATION TO THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT WITHIN 10 DAYS OF POSTING.
