On-Call Residential Counselor

COMPENSATION : $22.00 /hour, additional $1.00/hour for shifts taken within 24-hours notice

STATUS : On-Call

Hamilton Families

Our mission is to end family homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area. Established in 1985, Hamilton Families is San Francisco's leading service provider to homeless families, with carefully designed programs to prevent homelessness, provide shelter and stability, return families to permanent housing and support the well-being of children experiencing homelessness. We currently operate these programs across multiple sites in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.

Program and Position Overview

Hamilton Families operates 3 residential sites. The Shelter Program in the Tenderloin provides a safe place to sleep, three meals a day, emergency beds for families in immediate crisis, private rooms for families on the city’s shelter waitlist and critical social services to 50 families a night (about 150 individuals) for up to six months. The Transitional Housing Program located North of the Panhandle serves 20 families for 12-18 months.

Holloway House, located in Ingleside, serves up to 18 participants for 3-12 months. Holloway House is operated in partnership with Homeless Prenatal Program and the Department of Family and Children's Services.

Families participating in our residential programs receive comprehensive social services to identify and address factors contributing to their homelessness to enable them to return to stable, independent housing and economic self-sufficiency, including: case management with referrals and linkages to community services and benefits, employment and life skills training, access to basic health services, children’s services, and innovative and direct assistance in securing permanent housing.

Reporting to the Coordinators/Manager, the On-Call Residential Counselor is primarily responsible for providing a safe and healthful environment and welcoming atmosphere for program participants in the specific facility.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain shift coverage and primary supervision and support of participants.
• Set and contribute to a safe, dignified, and orderly atmosphere by enforcing program rules, policies, and procedures in accordance with the applicable City’s Grievance Policy.
• Model and facilitate appropriate behavior for participants in terms of daily living skills, self-care, personal interaction, social relationships, and constructive time management.
• Ensure the safety of participants and staff by limiting facility access to participants, staff, and authorized visitors and service providers.
• Respond appropriately to emergencies, including contacting appropriate staff and interacting with police, fire, and medical personnel as needed.
• Effectively communicate necessary information to all supervisors, staff, and shifts as appropriate.
• Provide front desk and other reception duties in a professional and courteous manner, relay timely and accurate messages to participants and staff, and provide information upon request about available services.
• Conduct regular rounds of the facility, and interact with participants to share information, provide supplies, conduct intakes, and facilitate interventions as necessary. Rounds include the interior (participant living quarters, bathrooms, and community rooms) and exterior of the building.
• Interact with participants to share information, provide supplies, and facilitate interventions as necessary; maintain appropriate professional boundaries with participants and staff; respond to participant requests in a professional and courteous manner; and maintain participant confidentiality.
• Bilingual positions require providing verbal and written program and other information as needed to participants who are predominantly monolingual in the language for which a bilingual premium applies.
• Complete and maintain required handwritten and computer-based records, files, correspondence, and statistics in a timely, clear, thorough, accurate, and legible manner. Required documentation may include, but is not limited to, conducting or assisting with intakes and reviewing program agreements and rules, shift log notes, bed…