Lead Shelter Residential Aide

Location:            Central VA Area Command Chamberlayne Shelter– Richmond, VA

Position Type:     Casual

Pay Range:         $15.00 - $18.00

About this opportunity:

• Performs a wide variety of support functions to ensure the safety, security, comfort and wellbeing of Salvation Army emergency shelter clients. Ensures shelter clients adhere to house rules. Monitors building security. Performs light housekeeping duties to ensure orderly, clean common areas. Serves as a lead worker to Shelter Residential Aides. Responsible for entering shelter client information into a database. Typically works a non-traditional schedule of evening and overnight shifts.

Key responsibilities:

• Supports inclement weather shelter operating procedures to include preparing sleeping and dining areas prior to shelter opening, assisting with the intake procedure, cot assignments, distributing blankets, face masks, and maintaining an orderly check-in line.
• Follows Salvation Army client intake procedure. Conducts and/or ensures a shelter census is taken at prescribed times. Ensures all clients are accounted for when they exit the shelter.
• Assists Shelter Program Manager with program reporting and tracking metrics.
• Maintains clean, orderly condition of shelter common areas such as the entrance lobby, restrooms, lounge, dining room, hallways. Empties trash cans and replaces trash liners.

What we are looking for in you:

• High school diploma or G.E.D.; AND
• One year experience performing security or social service work preferred; OR
• Any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

Ability to meet attendance requirements. Ability to read, write, and communicate the English language. Ability to respond to emergency situations quickly and calmly while maintaining control and initiating the proper corrective action. Ability to perform combinations of sitting, standing, and walking on a frequent change basis.  Distance of travel is usually within the same building. Limited amount of physical effort required associated with walking, standing, lifting and carrying light objects (less than 25 lbs.) 5-10% of work time. Work is performed in a shelter facility where there are little or no physical discomforts associated with changes in weather or discomforts associated with noise, dust, dirt, and the like.

Employee Benefits

• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal and Holiday Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plan
• Life Insurance and more!

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Why work for us?

The Salvation Army offers a broad range of career opportunities, particularly targeted toward those motivated by our mission, to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

The Salvation Army strives to do the “Most Good” for its employees by offering a greater sense of purpose in the work performed, by training and mentoring employees and by offering competitive compensation and benefit plans.  Whether employed as a truck driver, administrative support team member or the director of a program, our employees understand at the core of their work is the opportunity to be an integral part of an organization that is Doing the Most Good.

Five values at the heart of everything we do…We are…

• Passionate
• Compassionate
• Uplifting
• Brave
• Trustworthy

Additional Information:

All employees recognize The Salvation Army is a church and agree they will do nothing as an employee of The Salvation Army to undermine its religious mission.

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Application Submittal Period:  12/23/2024 – 01/06/2025

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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