Safety Team Leader - help usa : Job Details

Randalls and Wards Islands, New York, NY, USA Req #684

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Program: Clarke Thomas | 121 Hellgate Circle, Wards Island, Manhattan, NY 10035

What You'll Do

As a Safety Team Leader, you'll help maintain a safe and secure environment at one of our transitional housing shelters located on Wards Island, providing temporary housing for men living with diagnosed mental illnesses. You'll oversee a team of Safety Officers, who are usually the first contact with our residents when they enter one of our facilities. In addition to ensuring residents' safety, our Safety Team helps our residents feel welcome and sets the tone for their stay. It is critical that our Safety Team is alert, vigilant, and courteous to our residents. Responsibilities include patrolling facility grounds, ensuring residents and guests are properly signed in, escorting visitors to proper destinations, conducting unit inspections, maintaining accurate documentation, and preparing incident reports when necessary.

Your responsibilities will include:

Supervising Safety Officers on duty to ensure they are on post, in proper uniform, and in adherence to policies and procedures.

Documenting individual staff issues as necessary.

Preparing and submitting on time all necessary administrative reports including incident reports, electronic patrol reports, etc.

You're a great fit for this role if you have:

• New York State security guard license and FDNY F-02.
• FDNY F-80 (For most of our locations, we'll give you 90 days after you start to obtain).
• High School Diploma or equivalent OR equivalent experience and skills.
• Minimum of 18 months security experience in a shelter environment.
• Capacity to work with people experiencing homelessness and mental illness or other disadvantaged people.
• Strong customer service orientation and ability to skillfully manage interpersonal relationships.
• Strong time management and organizational skills.
• Computer literacy with Microsoft applications.
• Ability to provide night and weekend coverage as needed.

We Have GREAT BENEFITS!

• Health insurance through Cigna, including dental and vision with an option that covers the entire family with minimal employee contribution.
• Generous Paid Time Off!
• 401k with Company contribution even if employee doesn't contribute.
• And More!

Who We Are

At HELP USA, we work to ensure that everyone has a place to call home. We're one of the nation's largest nonprofit homeless services providers and low-income housing developers serving at-risk populations including families, individuals, veterans, survivors of domestic violence, people with physical and mental health challenges and disabilities, and seniors. With an annual operating budget approaching $150 million and 1400 employees working in nearly 60 programs, we have helped over 500,000 people facing homelessness and poverty to build better lives. We hope that you will consider joining our team in the fight against homelessness.

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