Job Type
Full-time
Description
Job Description: SHIFT SUPERVISOR - NIGHT WATCH
Time commitment: 40 HOURS PER WEEK
FTE: 1.0, SALARY, EXEMPT FROM OVERTIME
Reports to: RESIDENTIAL DIRECTOR
The Night Watch Shift Supervisor is responsible for the direction of the night-watch mentors as well as the
physical safety and security of each student during nighttime hours. They complete direct-care duties as
well as train night-watch mentors to meet the needs of the organization.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Orientates and trains new mentors
- Attends weekly training meetings on Telos’ policies or procedures with his/her staff
- Creates rewards and discipline for mentors on shift
- Generates night watch mentor shift assignments
- Coordinates scheduled activities/appointments
- Is trained in medication administration as per Telos’ policies and procedures
- Administers medications as ordered by the doctor
- Charts in each student’s medical record under mentor
- Assists/Leads AWOL procedures
- Supervises mentors and students in emergencies
- Performs and assists in searches of students upon admission, after off-campus passes, and when AWOL students return
- Enforces the Telos security and visitation policies and procedures
- Provides training to night watch mentors as needed, but at least once a month
- Communicates and reports to the Residential Director
- Performs all the responsibilities of a mentor
- Monitors and maintains boundaries surrounding lights-out and bedtime protocols
- Enforces student rules as needed
- Supports and assists all other Telos departments in various job descriptions (i.e., nursing, general cleaning and maintenance, answering telephones) as allowed by staffing ratios
- Participates in assigned committees or special assignments
Restrictions/Prohibitions:
- No sleeping
- No apartment abandonment
- Must provide your own food or eat snacks set aside for Night Watch
- Only one headphone in at a time while on shift
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Timely
- Dependable and reliable
- Minimum of six months of experience in a behavioral health-related field
- Ability to hold appropriate boundaries
- Ability to receive feedback
- Ability to receive and carry out instruction
- Genuine care and concern for others
- Ability to stay awake and perform duties through the night
- Exceptional relationship skills
- Capacity to train staff