Shelter Evening Supervisor - St. PJ's Children's Home

Description

Summary:

The Shelter Evening Supervisor under the general direction of the Shelter Program Director (or designee), assists the Program Director in establishing and directing the overall Shelter operation in a manner that promotes best practices and facilitates the optimum delivery of quality trauma informed services to residents and their children. This position is also responsible for maintaining adequate staffing levels at all times to ensure each resident’s physical, social, emotional, educational, and recreational needs are met.

Position Responsibilities:

• *Responsible for leadership and daily supervision of direct care staff, Team leaders and Weekend Supervisor.
• *Communicate expectations to staff as it relates to our trauma informed program and accomplishing program goals.
• *Responsible for scheduling in a manner that meets licensing requirements and ensures the safety of our clients.
• *Adhere to and maintain documentation in accordance with contractor requirements, state licensing standards, funding source requirements, St. PJ’s policies/procedures, and all accreditation body requirements.
• *Ensures staff knows, understands and utilizes trauma informed care principles and competencies.
• *Provide reflective supervision to promote the supervisee’s professional development and monitor application of trauma informed care principles.
• *Conduct on the floor observations to monitor Residential Child and Youth Care Professional (RCYCP) and Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) competency progress and provide on-going coaching and mentoring. 
• *Provide staff with verbal and written feedback as it relates to their job performance—positive feedback as well as corrective action, when necessary. Communicate staff performance with Program Director.

Competencies:   

Competency                                Description

Advocacy                                      Ability to support and engage in behavior that addresses systemic barriers and issues facing others, 

                                                      which may take place in a fast   paced environment.

Critical Thinking                         Ability to actively and skillfully process and generate information and belief using a set of core skills – 

                                                      analysis, evaluation, inference, deductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning.

Solution Oriented                      Ability to identify various challenges, think outside the box, be innovative, and formulate possible 

                                                      solutions.

Developing Others                    Ability to see the potential in others and engage them in a way that leads to their ability and 

                                                     willingness to enhance their knowledge, skills and/or abilities to greater levels of proficiency.

Performance Management     Ability to coach, set expectations, provide feedback, track progress, address performance concerns, 

                                                     and provide recognition for set objectives.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Education
  • Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or a related field is preferred. High School Diploma required. 
• Experience
  • Minimum of 2 years’ related experience, with experience providing oversight and supervision of staff is preferred. 
• License and Credentials
  • Reliable transportation
  • Valid driver license
  • Valid vehicle insurance
  • LCCA or ability to obtain LCCA preferred

· Must provide immunization/shot records;

· Submit to a state and federal background check, Child abuse and neglect registry check, and Tuberculosis screening;

• Be physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of performing assigned tasks and have the skills necessary to perform      essential duties and responsibilities

Minimum Knowledge and Skills: 

• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Word, Excel) and a variety of online database      systems, managing files and records, designing forms and other office procedures and terminology
• Strong analytical and organization skills and abilities
• Must be able to read and interpret policy, procedures and standards

· Must be detail oriented, organized, self-motivated, work well independently and on a team

· Must have good written and verbal skills

· Must have good critical thinking and problem solving skills

· Must be able to remain calm and composed in crisis situations

Travel Requirements:

Travel requirements for the position includes _0___% local and _0___% overnight.

Disclaimer:

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g., emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, etc.) ** This is a Grant funded position and salary is dependent on funding availability. Position can be eliminated at any time because of lack of funding to support this position.**

St. PJ’s Children’s Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To view this and other employment opportunities please visit The Archdiocese of San Antonio website at www.stpjhome.org. You must apply through the website and complete the application and upload your resume. No phone calls please. If you are chosen for an interview, you will be contacted.