Part-time Residential Specialist-Housing - Daybreak : Job Details

Essential personnel that supervise the general activities of Opportunity House residents and provides support and guidance in 8 hours shifts for the 24-hour / seven days per week coverage of the program, by performing the following:Note:•Part-time Residential Specialists work at least two (2) eight-hour shifts on the weekends and may workdays, evening, nights, or holidays.•Part-time Residential Specialists are required to maintain on-call status to help fill in on evenings, weekdays, weekends, holidays or as needed.•Part-time Residential Specialists may be required to work several holidays per year.HOUSING RESIDENTIAL SPECIALIST ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned:Life skills:As assigned or in coordination with Housing team provide services and activities that ensure clients self-sufficiency and social connectivity. Services include Life Skills training on the following areas but not limited to: time management, prioritizing, parenting, personal appearance, hygiene, food management, health, housekeeping, interpersonal skills, emergencies, safety and other daily living activities that affect the youth's ability to manage their basic needs and adult life demands. Assist volunteers in the delivery of client's services.Life enrichment activities:Provides and facilitates life enrichment activities, artistic expression individuals/ groups and leisure activities for the youth per program schedule or as needed.Therapeutic milieu/life-space model & Stages of Change model:Support, guide and reinforce the client's ability to learn coping skills and problem solve situations, while offering a safe place for the skills to be practiced. Provides an environment that is flexible and rich with opportunities and feedback from caring staff. Utilize the model when managing youth behaviors, deescalating conflicts, and communicating general aspects of the Building Rules or program expectations. Meet client where they are in the provision of services utilizing the Stages of Change Model. Informs and consults with supervisor about youth expectations and behaviors, as necessary.Client's schedule:Assists in supervising the youth on their program expectations and keep track of client's weekly schedule (i.e. work, school, groups) in conjunction with the Housing team. Daybreak Dollars:Provides items from the Daybreak Dollars pantry as needed maintaining the pantry log up to date. Assign tasks to clients for Daybreak Dollars as needed in coordination with Housing team.Communication:Document shift events in the bed white board of CareLogic, prepares and maintains accurate records as needed like Unusual Incident Reports (UIR), time sheets and other forms of documentation that may be required for program compliance by the agency. Maintains communication between shifts by documenting all clients & shifts events on shift notes and communication with Housing staff, through emails to Case review TH . Ensures coverage of the floor during shift and follows coverage protocol in coordination with supervisor.Residential Specialist Shift Duties:Completes duties assigned to each shift including but not limited to rounds, inventory, maintaining client binders, cooking, laundry and distributing mail.Communal areas:Maintains order and cleanliness in all communal areas daily. Monitors use of lounges, terrace, communal computer and phone in office area or any other Daybreak's equipment that the youth utilizes. Safety: Instructs youth during drills and real emergencies according to the organization's Emergency Procedures.Security:Collaborates with the security guard to ensure that all outside visitors have exited the apartments, communal areas, and the building after visitor's hours. Page all staff to the second floor if a violence incident occurs as needed.Move-ins:Assists in client move-ins as requested by supervisor. Move-outs: Assists in client move-outs by preparing the unit for Facilities to clean, repair and paint. Collaborates with Supervisor to bag and clear client's belongings out of the apartment. Performs move-out checks with provided form, as clients leave a unit.Apartment's Housekeeping:Performs and follows up with apartment's inspections on a weekly basis ensuring that the youth observe the Building Rules and Housing Procedures maintaining safe and sanitary conditions in the apartments as requested by supervisor. Reports to Housing by email, apartment inspection ratings and get units ready for site visit audits.Bed bugs: Ensures client follows Housing Bed Bugs Eradication Plan in case of an infestation. Collaborates with Case Manager during move-ins in the use of the bedbug oven and other tasks as needed.Maintenance requests: Send maintenance requests of repairs or potential bed bugs treatments needed in the units and communal areas.Program Rules:Enforce program rules with a strength base approach and supports, promotes, and engage youth to enhance positive behaviors utilizing natural and logical consequences, as necessary.ADDITIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.Any other duties and projects as assigned by the Housing Supervisor.GENERAL DAYBREAK DUTIES:Assumes an advocacy and leadership role which exemplifies the belief in the potential of the client, where applicable.Ensures all duties set by agency's guidelines and programs policies and procedures are completed on time and as assigned.Meets weekly and/or as assigned with Supervisor.Notifies supervisors of potential or real emergencies including criminal activities, high risk behavior, mental health emergencies, health emergencies or other activities that impact safety, security and public relations, where applicable.Models professional behavior and actively contributes in a positive manner and demonstrates constructive positive problem-solving strategies and openness to others' opinions.Refrains from engaging in dual-relationships or any other ethical boundary with clients to ensure and protect client's rights and consults with supervisor when there might be a risk of these situations, where applicable.Refrains from engaging in negative or counterproductive behaviors and attitudes and strives to keep the well-being of co-workers and clients at the forefront.Demonstrates appreciation, understanding and trust in the work of his/her colleagues.Attends training/agency meetings, as scheduled. Responsible for completing all required trainings needed to comply with Daybreak policy. Maintains appropriate in-service training hours by attending conferences, workshops and training that are relevant to the job description and assignment tasks.Adheres to and upholds agency's Mission, Core Values, attendance policies and procedures and maintain and contribute to positive customer relations-both internally and externally (clients, staff, vendors, donors.)Attends All-Staff meetings each yearDrives Daybreak vehicles, when necessary, where applicable.SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITES:No supervisory responsibilitiesQUALIFICATIONS:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:HS/GED required AA or BA in Human Services or related field preferred. Experience with target population, preferred.LANGUAGE SKILLS:Ability to read and comprehend procedures and simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write knowledgeably and legibly. Ability to spell correctly or use appropriate resources to minimize spelling errors. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:Ability to add, subtracts, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.REASONING ABILITY:Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:COMPETENCIES-SKILLS AND ABILITIES:Valid Ohio Driver's LicenseCurrent automobile insurance coverageCurrent CPR/FA CertificationGood verbal and written communication skillsComputer skillsAbility to work with minimal supervisionAbility to work well as a member of a teamAbility to follow direction in a timely and concise mannerGood organizational skillsOTHER QUALIFICATIONS:Time ManagementFlexibilityComplete and maintain own timesheets and recordsFull knowledge of and follow through with academic requirementsFull knowledge of and follow through with placement requirementsPHYSICAL DEMANDS:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, sit, and used hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and peripheral vision.WORK ENVIRONMENT:The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.It is the policy of Daybreak to ensure that the facility is in compliance with all license requirements and that all employees are fit for duty. Once a conditional offer of employment has been given, Daybreak requires that all prospective employees sign a background check release form and pass pre-employment testing before a start date may be given.Background CheckDaybreak is required by State of Ohio law to perform a criminal background check, which includes fingerprinting, of eligible applicants. In addition to the fingerprints, Daybreak requires the following additional background checks.

• Federal Exclusion databases including:
  • National Sex Offender Registry
  • Office Inspector General (OIG)
  • Nurse Aide Registry
  • SAM
  • of Developmental Disabilities (DODD)
• Motor Vehicle Report

Pre-employment TestingThe following pre-employment tests will be conducted at Daybreak's expense. Tests include:

• A tuberculin skin test or chest x-ray (by a physician of Daybreak's choosing)
• A urine drug screening (by a testing facility of Daybreak's choosing)

Should the pre-employment reviews indicate that the prospective employee does not meet the employment requirements, Daybreak has the option of either not hiring the person or postponing employment until the condition prohibiting employment has been removed.If the background or pre-employment checks contain information that the applicant has committed, been convicted of, or pleaded guilty to any criminal offense, unless the charge was a minor misdemeanor not involving violence or a sexual offense at least 5 years old, or if the applicant refuses to submit fingerprints for a criminal background check, the conditional offer of employment will be withdrawn immediately.Pursuant to SB 38 (child-serving agency), if it is determined that the applicant has committed one of the disqualifying events listed on the attached Ohio Revised Code Disqualifier sheet may prevent employment at Daybreak.