Shelter Monitor (Seasonal)
Pittsburgh Mercy

Employment Type:
Part time
Shift:

Description:

SHELTER COORDINATOR/MONITOR (Team Based Model)

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're currently looking for a Shelter Coordinator/Monitors to provide support and safety to the individuals accessing shelter in a low barrier shelter model.

The Shelter Monitor is responsible for working collaboratively with other team members and leads to ensure that all operations are running smoothly. This includes ensuring that the shelter processes-including check-in, food delivery and service, and clients' use of the sleeping area, laundry area, and bathroom-run smoothly. An important facet of this position is the ability to engage with persons served with compassion and to take initiative. The Shelter Monitor must be able to work well with others and in collaboration with volunteers and other agencies to foster a safe and inclusive shelter environment.

You'll work with all of the individuals staying in our shelters at any given time (up to 60 people), and be involved with the planning of services for the daily success of the shelter. We believe in a strengths-based approach and use positive practices to help guide all of our actions while working with people who come through our doors.

This is a team-based position. Your dependability, integrity, empathy for others (both persons served and your fellow employees), and dedication to teamwork are essential to this position.

We will train all team members on basic first aid and intervention techniques. We will also train on basic tenants of a strength based approach to care and motivational interviewing. This will help guide our work and interactions with each person coming to our shelter seeking services.

ABOUT YOU

We're looking for employees who are professional, flexible, compassionate, and can remain composed in stressful situations. You will need to meet people where they are emotionally and help meet basic human needs. Our mission is to treat every person we serve with respect and dignity while creating a safe, open, friendly space. This position will recognize that relationships are central to engagement and understand that low barrier shelter is a bridge into stable housing. If you believe you're a good fit for this position, we'd love to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES/REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelors in Human Services or related field (Acceptable Degrees would be Psychology, Criminology, Social Work, Sociology, Public Health, Special Education, Education, Arts) OR High School Degree/Equivalency and 4 years of job related experience working with the mentally ill and/or substance use
• CNA experience or direct service experience, housing insecurity and employment insecurity.
• Act 33/34/73 Clearances
• Pre-Employment Drug Screen

Work Schedule: This is a Seasonal Position.

Must work a minimum of 4 work shifts per week with availability to work evenings, weekends and holidays. Work shifts are 6pm to 10pm, 6pm to 12midight and 12 midnight to 7am

ABOUT PITTSBURGH MERCY

We're a community-based health and human services organization using person-centered care to treat our area's most vulnerable populations.

Our mission is to be a compassionate, transforming presence within our communities. We reach out to offer help - and hope - to people who are experiencing:

• Mental illness and substance abuse
• Physical health needs
• Intellectual disabilities
• Traumatic events or circumstances, including homelessness + abuse

Trinity Health's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health employs about 133,000 colleagues at dozens of hospitals and hundreds of health centers in 22 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Trinity Health's dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

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