Safe House Residential Specialist - Girls Safe House

Job Summary

The Salvation Army is a branch of the Christian Church, and the ultimate goal of all programs is a spiritual regeneration of all people. The Residential Specialist for the Safe House program, is a Full time 40 hours a week non-exempt position. The Residential Specialist performs the essential functions as indicated in this job description and is supervised by the Program Coordinator.

About the Role

The Safe House program at the NOSH location provides services to adolescent female residents. The Program also collaborates with other agencies and resources within its community. Services and activities are developed to support the specific needs of the youths in placement at the Safe House program.

Responsibilities

• Ensure up keep of facility to meet program and licensing standards.
• Report any unmet conditions to the Program Manager.
• Schedule group program activities for after school, weekends, holidays, and vacation.
• Maintain proper supervision and monitoring of all client residents at all times during assigned work shift.
• Maintain completeness of resident files and program files.
• Maintain consistency in program miles and procedures.
• Monitor resident service contracts to see that resident and family needs are met with all agencies involved with resident during placement in facility.
• Ensure all programs and resident needs are met on a continuing basis.
• Support the goals of the Safe House program through the essential functions indicated in this Job Description.

Qualifications

• High school graduate.
• At least 3 years experiences working with troubled or at risk youth; or 3 years experiences working with clients within a residential and/or social service setting; or some combination thereof.
• Valid Hawaii driver's license.
• Valid TB clearance & Pre employment medical clearance.
• Valid First Aid and CPR certification.
• DHS FBI/Criminal History & CAN cleared.
• Meets Salvation Army standards as an authorized driver.

Desired Qualifications

• Associates degree in human services or related field; or two years college level studies in human services field and one year experience working with juveniles, or Bachelor’s degree in human services or related field.
• Completion of Professional Residential Child Care and Youth Care Certification.
• Demonstration of other certifications or trainings completed necessary for position.

Essential Functions

• Ensure up keep of facility to meet program and licensing standards.
• Report any unmet conditions to the Program Manager.
• Schedule group program activities for after school, weekends, holidays, and vacation.
• Maintain proper supervision and monitoring of all client residents at all times during assigned work shift.
• Maintain completeness of resident files and program files.
• Maintain consistency in program miles and procedures.
• Monitor resident service contracts to see that resident and family needs are met with all agencies involved with resident during placement in facility.
• Ensure all programs and resident needs are met on a continuing basis.
• Support the goals of the Safe House program through the essential functions indicated in this Job Description.

Skills and Personal Qualities

• Willingness to accept and implement The Salvation Army philosophy.
• Personal attributes: Good/sound judgment, dependability, initiative understanding, firmness, caring organizational skills, high energy level and ability to work under conditions of stress.
• Mental Demands: Work under stressful conditions, interact with others with courtesy and tact, relate to wide range of people and situations including youth, parents, agency workers, police, school personnel, etc., work within an interdisciplinary team concept, participate in staff training and growth group, manage and prioritize multiple projects in an organized and efficient manner, respond to crisis situations in a calm and effective manner, complete projects on schedule, maintain confidentiality, maintain regular and punctual work attendance; may require flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends.

Physical Demands

• Sitting; climbing and/or balancing; stooping, kneeling, bending, stretching, crouching and/or crawling; standing; walking; manual dexterity and eye-hand coordination; use of vision; driving a vehicle; pushing/pulling/lifting/carrying 25-50 pounds and occasionally more than 50 pounds; traveling by airplane.
• Provide safe restraints of youth involved in physical confrontation situations.

Communication Demands

• Talking to co-workers, clients, vendors; requires written communication to and from co-workers, clients, vendor; talking on the telephones; requires responding to written or verbal requests of co-workers, clients, and vendors; requires training/giving verbal and written instructions; requires receiving verbal and written instructions; requires writing/composing written language; requires reading; requires visiting/working at other worksites; requires communication via the latest technologies.
• Able and skill in communicating with people of different cultures/ethnicity.

Equipment Needs

• Use office equipment such as computers, photocopiers, scanners, calculators, etc.

Description of Work Environment

Most work will be indoors at Family Intervention Services. Attendance at trainings, both in Hawaii and on the mainland, may be require.