**This is on-call as needed position**
Pay rates for Union positions are set in the Collective Bargaining Agreement with SEIU Local 521. Each position has a total of six steps, Step 1 (entry level) through Step 6 (15 years of employment with the organization). Union staff are promoted from Step 1 to Step 2 upon their one-year anniversary. The current Step 1 rate for this position is $29.14/hr, and the current Step 6 rate for this position is $32.17/hr.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Enter information into the daily log, including descriptions of any incidents, altercations,
mother-child interactions, or medication discrepancies. *
- Oversee the day-to-day activities of clients and their children, including regular rounds, chores
completed at scheduled times, attending scheduled groups, and ensuring proper supervision and safety of all clients and children.*
- Monitor and assist mothers’ positive parenting activities, providing crisis intervention as needed.
- Provide client access to their medications and ensuring correct dose and medication are being provided. Inventory client medication per shift.*
- Regularly scheduled and emergency transportation for clients, including appointments, grocery shopping, WIC, and others as needed.*
- Track daily census of clients.*
- Conduct scheduled and random urine and oral drug testing.*
- Set up bedrooms for potential clients, including bedding and welcome baskets. Clean bedrooms of outgoing clients and submit maintenance requests as needed.*
- Communicate thorough shift exchange with incoming staff, including client updates and pending to-dos for the shift.*
- Conduct facility, room, and client searches as needed, including all incoming packages and personal items brought for clients.
- Conduct end-of-month report, including inventories of food, medicine, and supplies, fire and safety checks, and any maintenance requests as needed.*
- Participate in trainings and achieve certifications as required by federal, state, and county licensing requirements.*
- Conduct client checks and take vitals per the organization’s Withdrawal Management Policy.*
- Provide childcare coverage as needed.
- Provide coverage for admission and discharge paperwork as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED: (E = Essential; D = Desired)
- Must have a high school diploma or GED. (E)
- A valid California Driver License, with access to a reliable vehicle/for driving a company vehicle, current proof of auto liability insurance, and a clean DMV record. (E)
- Working knowledge of common computer software programs including MS Office, Excel. (E)
- Filing skills (alpha, numeric, date). (E)
- Some experience working in a multicultural setting with women and children affected by the disease of addiction and having possible mental health diagnoses. (D)
- Sensitivity to female privacy interests and prior domestic abuse. (E)
- Experience of social model methodology and 12-Step recovery principles. (D)
- Bilingual (English/Spanish). (D)
- Strong personal boundaries matched with compassion. (E)
- Experience role modeling recovery concepts, healthy life skills, and positive parenting skills to maintain a positive environment for recovery. (D)
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Regularly required to sit, stand and walk up and down a small hill. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds (strollers, supplies, small children).
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Primary work is performed in a residential setting with short periods of time at an office desk. Will be exposed to clients in various states of undress.
TRAVEL REQUIREMENT:
Local travel to training, client appointments, and other as needed errands may be required.
