Weekend/Holiday Shelter Advocate
Part Time • Macon
The mission of Crisis Line & Safe House is to provide community crisis intervention, safe shelter, comprehensive support and recovery services for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, and to educate the community about the cycle of violence and its prevention.
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Opportunity for advancement
- Training & development
The Shelter Advocate at Crisis Line & Safe House of Central Georgia serves as the motivator, mentor, and supervisor working with clients and ensures that each client is given every opportunity to gain a life free of domestic violence.
Essential Job Functions as Shelter Advocate:
- Acts as shift manager on weekends and holidays
- Keeps shelter safe and secure at all times, is responsible for the safety of residents
- Answers crisis calls during shift
- Collects and maintains detailed statistical data pertaining to all calls
- Provides crisis intervention and referrals for clients
- Screens client appropriateness for shelter entrance when admission is needed and contacts on-call staff as needed
- Completes intake of in-coming clients and children
- Completes all resident paperwork
- Provides verbal, positive support for clients
- Instructs, supervises, and helps implement housekeeping chores required of residents
- Resolves client conflicts and misconduct when necessary
- Helps clients adjust to communal living
- Keeps all records for attending shift, with complete documentation and information for Shelter Manager and other staff
- Records, logs, and stores all material donations
- Performs clerical tasks as requested by Shelter Manager
- Attends to other duties as may be assigned
- Manages day-to-day operation of shelter during midnight shift
- Maintains confidential client files and agency statistics for program
- Serves as an active and supportive team member and participates in work processes as identified
- Maintains communication with Shelter Manager and alerts her to any major problems or high-risk situations
Non-essential Job Functions:
- Assists in office coverage when necessary
- Assists in other areas such as shelter advocacy when needed
Requirements of Position Applicants:
- Possess a background in victim advocacy
- Possess an understanding of domestic violence dynamics
- Able to work independently
- Able to utilize the resources available both in the community and in-house.
- Obtain CPR/ First Aid Training
- Pass criminal background check
- Willing to submit to random drug screenings
- Willing to adhere to all shelter policies and procedures
Other Skills/Abilities:
- Organizational skills
- Problem solving skills
- Ability to learn to use TTY machine
- Ability to use all office equipment (Microsoft included)
Compensation: $15.00 per hour
About Us
Crisis Line & Safe House is a nonprofit agency serving family violence, sexual assault, and stalking victims and their children in a seven-county area in Central Georgia, including Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Peach, and Twiggs counties.
Crisis Line & Safe House is a nonprofit agency serving family violence, sexual assault, and stalking victims and their children in a seven-county area in Central Georgia, including Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Peach, and Twiggs counties.
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