Resident Support Worker (4 Positions) West Campus

This position works alongside a team to provide a welcoming and encouraging environment for women accessing The Salvation Army Transitional Housing. This position will also ensure that the women staying at the shelter have their basic needs met and support them through positive engagement and referrals to housing, community programing and needed resources.

Resident/Program Support:

• Handles the admission, orientation, and evaluation of residents as per policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Ensures ongoing enforcement of policies and guidelines, including providing guidance to residents around transitional housing rules and expectations in order for it to be a safe and respectful environment.
• Conducts respectful intake interviews, ensuring all information is obtained, recorded, expectations are clearly communicated to residents, and basic goal setting is done.
• Monitors all incoming traffic, including verifying resident identification and that residents are following safety guidelines.
• Liaises with Spiritual and Religious Care team members, internal referral sources and other external agencies as needed (e.g., welfare, police, parole, urgent situations, HELP Team, PACT Team and non-emergency)
• Stores and records information on resident medication, tools and gear, as per policies and procedures.
• Performs light housekeeping duties and fosters a clean workplace culture.
• Provides linen and assistance to each resident, as needed.
• Receives all resident concerns in a caring and professional manner, directs residents to avenues of resolution and ensure required documentation is completed.
• Ensures that calls and messages for residents are dealt with as per policy and privacy legislation.
• Works with program team members to ensure best practices and efficient service delivery.
• Assist team lead in overall operation and running of the program.
• Work with team lead to ensure occupancy fees, meals fees is paid by residents on time.
• Provides mediation in resident conflict to prevent and/or resolve altercations.
• Addresses non-compliance and track daily occupancy of the rooms.
• Ensure safety of residents at the 2 cottages.
• Ensures all policies and procedures are upheld and, if required, seek additional support internally or externally from Calgary Police Services or Emergency Medical Services.
• Reviews policies, procedures, and program guideline; provides suggestions for changes, as needed.
• Reviews information and resident forms to ensure correct information and relevance.
• May carry out inspection/safety and wellness checks of property and grounds in accordance with policies and procedures.
• May provide support for other program positions.

Administrative:
• Accurately records day-to-day happenings using appropriate methods; maintain logbooks, and complete occurrence reports, etc.
• May keep track of ensuring residents have paid occupancy fees, meal tickets, arrears etc.
• Communicates with co-workers and Resident Support Team Leaders at shift change, to ensure bed availability; review and record all resident information.
• Reads all day-to-day communications.
• Records all pertinent information and any significant events in communication book.
• Completes program documentation as per program procedures, including meal lists, communication book, behaviour contracts, notices, incident reports, emergency evacuation reports, and TPW reports.
• Attends program staff meetings as scheduled.
• Attend or conduct house meetings as needed
• Demonstrates stewardship of The Salvation Army resources such as time keeping and program supplies.
• Assist team lead in keeping a track of program supplies, and ensuring any damage, repair or replacement to equipment or facility is reported to the concerned department.
• May attend case conferences when necessary.

Record Keeping and Reports:
• Maintains daily and monthly program statistics.
• Assists Resident Support Team Leader with weekly tool and medication cabinet audits.
• Prepares required incident reports.
• Files previous year's inactive files and archive files annually.
• May audit resident files as per procedure and accreditation standards.

• Completed High school diploma, plus specialized courses of up to six (6) months
• Police Information Check (PIC) with Vulnerable Sector Search
• Current Standard First Aid certification with Level A or C CPR from an Alberta approved training provider
• Incumbents with a Social Work diploma or degree must be registered with the Alberta College of Social Workers
Experience and Skilled Knowledge Requirements
• More than three months but less than one year of prior related experience, including experience with frontline work in a social service setting.

• Strong customer service
• Attentive listening and observation of body language and able to monitor and read the
• Able to stay calm in stressful
• Computer skills including MS Outlook, Word and ability to use keyboard; familiarity with
• Demonstrated trauma informed care, non-violent crisis intervention and de-escalation
• Able to pack and life resident
• Able to stand for long periods of time and do walk abouts within and outside of the building; able to walk up and down stairs.
• Able to continuously monitor the environment, monitoring security cameras and attentiveness when interacting with clients and recording information. Strong sense of integrity and confidentiality with professional ethics and a balanced sense of fairness and flexibility.

HOURS OF WORK

The resident support workers will be working a four days on three off and three days on four days off rotation (Working Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday one week and Thursday, Friday, Saturday following week

Apply via CSCalgary.HRResumes@salvationarmy.ca

No phone call please

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