Job Details

Job Opportunity

Location: TX-Temple Corps - Temple, TX

Position Type: Part Time with Benefits 20 or More

Salary Range: $13.00 - $13.00 Hourly

Travel Percentage: None

Job Shift: Evening

Job Category: Housing

About This Opportunity

Schedule/Hours: 3 days a week from 3pm to 12am, days vary

This position is responsible for:

Assisting residents staying in the Corps shelter overnight; performing client intake procedures and preparing client intake records; monitoring the activity of residents on an assigned shift ensuring safety, security, and compliance to house rules; maintaining accurate and complete records and logs containing pertinent information; ensuring that facility is maintained in a neat and proper order.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensures clients comply with house rules; checks client's baggage for drugs, alcohol, weapons, and pornography; records incidents and notifies supervisor of any special circumstances or unusual problems; ensures security of facility and clients; arms and disarms alarms in accordance with lodge policy; locks and secures area inappropriate for client entry.
• Conducts routine checks of the facilities to ensure that all doors are locked and that nothing is amiss; locks doors to ensure security of the facilities.
• Responds to emergencies in a calm manner and initiates appropriate actions in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Performs client intake procedures including running sexual offender checks; checks clients into the shelter; prepares and monitors client intake cards; prepares and maintains resident roster.
• Assigns daily cooking, cleaning, and maintenance chores to clients and ensures completion of such; as needed, participates in the cleaning and maintenance of facilities, supplies, and equipment; inspects facility on a routine basis to ensure compliance with established standards; ensures return and accountability of The Salvation Army property (linens, etc.).

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Ability to meet attendance requirements.
• Ability to read, write and communicate the English language effectively.
• Ability to perform data entry into a computer.
• Ability to respond to emergency situations quickly and calmly while maintaining control and initiating the proper corrective action.
• Ability to perform combinations of sitting, standing and walking on a frequent change basis. Distance of travel is usually within the same building.
• Limited amounts of physical effort required associated with walking, standing, lifting and carrying light to heavy objects (up to 30 lbs.) occasionally.
• Work is performed in a residential facility where there are little or no physical discomforts associated with changes in weather or discomforts associated with noise, dust, dirt and the like.

Employee Benefits:

• Paid Time Off
• Retirement Savings Plan Available
• Supplemental Insurance Available
• Voluntary Life Insurance and more!

Qualifications

What We Are Looking For In You:

• High school diploma or G.E.D. required, AND
• One-year prior experience performing security or social services work in a shelter or similar environment, OR
• Any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Licenses and Certifications:

• Valid State Drivers License (Preferred)
• Food Handlers Certification (or ability to obtain within established timeframe)
• CPR or First Aid Certification (or ability to obtain within established timeframe)

Equal Opportunity Employer: Veterans | Disabled