Residential Aide Broadway House Womens Shelter

Who We Are:CAMBA is a community of staff volunteers clients donors neighbors and partners who work together to build an inclusive New York City where all children and adults have access to the resources and supports they need to thrive. We take a comprehensive approach by offering more than 180 integrated programs in: Education & Youth Development Family Support Job Training & Employment Support Services Health Housing and Legal Services. We reach more than 73000 individuals and families including almost 13000 youth.CAMBA serves a diverse cross section of New Yorkers from new mothers in Brownsville to job seekers in the Rockaways. More than half of our clients are immigrants and refugees from around the globe. Over 85 of our families are in living in poverty reflecting the challenges faced by nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers today.

CAMBA operates 6 single adult shelters and 6 family shelters and one drop in center. Each shelter offers clients a supportive structured therapeutic safe and drugfree facility. Homeless (often mentallyill and substanceabusing) men and women are provided with comprehensive services to stabilize their condition in order to successfully transition into to permanent and/or supported housing.

TheBroadway House Womens Shelterin Bushwick serves 200 women approximately 100 of whom are mentally ill and chemically addicted

Position: Residential Aide

Reports To: Shift Supervisor

Location: 1245 Broadway Brooklyn NY 11221

What The Residential Aide Does:

• Intervene and diffuse inappropriate client interaction as necessary.
• Monitor clients behavior and report client changes in behavior or personal care to Supervisor and/or appropriate social services staff.
• Ensure that clients receive personal care products and laundry products weekly and replace any personal care items as needed.
• Sort count and bag bed linens blankets and towels (may wash dry and fold).
• Distribute clean bed linens blankets pillows and towels to residents.
• Monitor residents use of laundry facilities.
• Strip former residents lockers bags and tags belongings carry bags to storage area and store bags for safekeeping.
• Retrieve personal property of former residents upon their return.
• Change and launder bed linens blankets and towels and prepare residents quarters for new residents.
• Escort clients to appointments as needed.
• Prepare kitchen and dining facilities for mealtimes and clean up after each meal.
• Prepare paper goods setups and condiments for mealtimes.
• Set up coffee and hot water urns before each meal.
• Prepare and serve sandwiches.
• Collect garbage in bags and remove to appropriate storage location.
• Research clients using the DHS SCIMS computer system.

Minimum Education/Experience Required:

• High school diploma or G.E.D. and/or equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• Participate in Department of Health Food Protection 15 hour Course pass exam and become a certified Food Handler.
• Must obtain Annual PPD Test.
• May be required to become First Aid/CPR certified.
• May be required to become certified in prevention.
• Bilingual preferred

Compensation: $18.50 hourly
When salary ranges are listed the range would represent the low and high end for the applicable position & program. The salary offered would be based on various factors unique to each program and candidate.This includes but is not limited to experience education budget and/or program size internal equity skills and other factors that may be required for the position and organization.

Status: Fulltime 35 hours per week)
Benefits: CAMBA offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance dental insurance 403(b) retirement plan with employer match paid time off (vacation personal and sick time) and paid holidays.

CAMBA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace. People of color people with disabilities and lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to apply. We consider all applicants without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity gender expression national origin age disability socioeconomic status marital or veteran status pregnancy status or sexual orientation.