Job Details
Job Location
Shelter – Houston, TX
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
4 Year Degree
Travel Percentage
Up to 25%
Job Shift
Graveyard
Job Category
Nonprofit – Social Services
Description
Being the Residential Mentor for the Houston Area Women’s Center, you will oversee the safety, general welfare, and day-to-day needs of the women and children staying in the domestic violence shelter. The Residential Mentor assists clients through the acclimation process of living in a communal environment by providing peer counseling/support, education, and mentoring.
Your Schedule:
- Friday-Monday 10:00 p.m.-8:00 a.m.
- Full-time
- Work Model: 100% onsite
- Local Travel: 25%
Our Total Compensation Package:
- Starting Pay Rate: $21.63 hourly
- Pay schedule: semi-monthly
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance Programs
- Generous Paid time Off- 11 paid holidays per year, 3 personal holidays per year, 15 paid Vacation days per year, Approx 7 hours per month of accrued Sick days.
- 401K the agency matches 125% of employee contributions up to 4% of the annual salary of a full-time employee.
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Company paid Long Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Working at Houston Area Women’s center gives you a rewarding experience in which our diverse team of employees work together as part of the empowerment of a survivor’s life and at the same time part of a much larger mission. We are committed to doing the work and challenging each other to be an organization in which everyone is respected and heard. Every day we continue to embed diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity in everything we do as we provide service to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Qualifications
The Requirements We are Seeking:
- Associates Degree in Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Public Health, or Criminal Justice and 3 years of experience within social services, case management or similar field. OR
- Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, or Criminal Justice and 1 year of experience within social services, case management or similar field.
- Experience within social services, case management, or similar field (1-3 years depending on education level).
- Proficient knowledge with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, Teams)
- Valid Texas Driver’s License
What you Deliver in this role:
- You work directlywith clients in a domestic violence shelter by providing mentoring, crisis intervention, safety planning, and supportive services.
- You facilitate and provide mediation between residents when needed by modeling and teaching non-violent conflict resolution skills.
- You assign and monitor residents’ personal responsibilities in the communal living environment.
- You conduct individual orientations, intakes, group house meetings, exit processes etc.
- You enforce residential policies to ensure compliance with grantors and funding sources.
- You attend Case Meetings for feedback and information and to develop working plans to address client issues. Communicate with other departments of the agency to resolve client needs.
- You create resident files and record client services by existing deadlines via HMIS software. Complete all necessary paperwork for payroll, reimbursements and maintain accurate records, statistics, etc.
- You maintain safety and cleanliness of communal living areas at all times and report unsafe activities, complete incident reports for accidents, hazardous practices. Perform light housekeeping duties.
- You report abuse/neglect to either Child and/or Adult Protective Services.
- Other duties may be assigned.
What Skills and Assets you bring, and more:
- You have excellent attention to details.
- You demonstration of professional objectivity and appreciation for confidential information.
- You have the ability to follow instructions and to adhere to policies and procedures.
- You have the ability to prioritize tasks to meet individual and team deadlines.
- You have skills in crisis intervention and conflict resolution with children and families.
- You have a growth mindset and is a good team player.
- You have strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
When you work here at HAWC you make an impact not just in the lives of the survivors and the people you help, but also make an impact in our own lives and our community. We learn and grow with a purpose where we strive to work for a common cause, which is to end domestic and sexual violence for ALL.