Schedule:  Sun-Wed 11pm-9am

Salary: $20.00 / hour

As a Safe Haven Awake Overnight Counselor, you will provide support to and engage Safe Haven residents in a welcoming and comfortable setting, designed as a safe, low-demand alternative to the streets or shelters for people with significant histories of homelessness and psychiatric conditions, sometimes with substance misuse. You will meet residents' needs for privacy and safety, and gradually encourage their participation in working on their self-defined needs for income/benefits, finding permanent housing, addressing health issues, and building social support.

Additional responsibilities include nightly cleaning and filing.

Together with staff and residents, the Safe Haven Awake Overnight Counselor foster a place of mutual respect, support, caring and collaboration; where safety, health, and learning are paramount and attaining permanent housing is the goal.

Keywords: rehabilitation, social counselor, social worker, provider, support staff, social services provider, counselor, mental health, psychiatric, social services, mentor, counseling, social work, group home, DSP, Direct Care, psychology, mental illness, mental health, psychiatric, outreach worker, outreach services, community based, human services, nonprofit, crisis, trauma, advocacy, recovery, VinfenRC, VinfenAON

High school diploma or equivalent is required; Bachelor's degree preferred. In some cases, experience may be substituted for academic training.

• CPR is required within two weeks of hire


• First Aid is required within two weeks of hire


• Psychiatric Rehabilitation Division New Employee Training courses are required, excluding MAP


• Crisis Intervention/Staff Safety and Infectious Diseases are required within six months of hire


• All applicants must be at least 21 years of age and have a current, valid, US drivers' license for at least 6 months.


• Other trainings, as assigned