Residential Advisor

Job Description

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates and abides by Covenant Learning Center Values and operating principles.

• Provides daily supervision to students ages 16-24 to ensure good order and discipline are maintained in the dormitory.

• Responsible for ensuring that dormitories are always a clean and safe environment.

• Ensures the dormitories are under supervision 24 hours a day and ensures all rules, policies and procedures are followed by residents.

• Maintains 100% accountability of all residents and logbook entries for any significant events that occur during their shift.

• Assists students in adjusting to Center life by providing supervision, behavior modification and acting as a mentor.

• Ensures students meet the required schedule, waking on time and arriving on time for school or work assignment.

• Serves as a Career Success Team (CST) member developing and implementing student interventions.

• Ensures students are adequately prepared for the training day, e.g., dressed appropriately.

• Provides daily supervision or assistance in monitoring students in personal hygiene, room/chore assignments, and other activities.

• Ensures dorms are always clean and inspection ready.

• Provides informal counseling related to stress management, personal problems, etc., and provides insight into responsible behavior and attitudes.

• Documents student records according to PRH, inputting all relevant student data.

• Prepares applicable reports to ensure accurate documentation of student progress.

• Maintains and ensures student rooms, dream boards and bulletin boards with updated student and center information per established standards.

• Serves as channel of communication between management, staff, and students.

• Facilitates groups in life skills including budgeting, renter's rights, completing a lease, completing chores, etc.

• Facilitates small group discussions on life skills, peer mediation, conflict resolution, etc.

• Participates in ESPs for students in assigned dormitory.

• Assesses the need for confidentiality balanced with the need to report situations on behalf of students to ensure the safety and well-being of students and staff.

• Contacts family members for consent for pass system as warranted.

• Facilitates prompt and appropriate assistance to students in the event of injury, illness, emotional trauma, etc.

• Meets individually a minimum of once a month with students on assigned dorm, documenting the meeting.

• Performs and documents regular perimeter checks of dorm and outside perimeter to ensure safety and security.

• Facilitates weekly dorm meetings which include accountability checks.

• Facilitates daily Morning Accountability Checks (MAC's)

• Ensures all equipment and facilities are clean and maintained in accordance with center, Covenant Learning Center and DOL standards.

• Creates a warm, welcoming atmosphere for students.

• Ensures assigned dormitory and its outdoor area are maintained in good repair, cleanliness, and order.

• Ensures use of federal equipment is within DOL, Covenant Learning Center and center guidelines.

• Maintains a work environment of zero accidents and injuries including no lost-time accidents.

• Ensures a work environment that provides an equal opportunity for all.

• Cultivate and maintain a positive climate on center that is free of harassment, intimidation, bullying and disrespect in order to provide a safe place for staff and students to work and learn.

• Maintains accountability of staff, students, and property, adheres to safety practices in all areas of responsibility.

• Performs other duties as assigned.