Custodian - Long Island City

Compensation: $18/hr 

Benefits:
We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books.

Overview:

The Housing Works Emergency & Transitional Housing Program (ETH) provides time limited transitional housing and support services to individuals reentering the community following periods of incarceration or other justice system involvement. Program participants engage in a variety of onsite services, including case management, vocational training, housing advocacy and mental health support that address barriers to accessing housing in the community and help build skills that participants can use to achieve and maintain stable functioning in the community.

Reporting to the Senior Program Coordinator or Operations Manager, the Custodian is responsible for maintaining the cleanliness and safety of the physical environment of the program space to promote optimal program functioning. This includes conducting minor repairs and maintenance, engaging in routine, through cleaning of office spaces, common areas participant rooms and assisting with the room turnover processes and ensuring the program site meets internal and external standards.

Responsibilities:

Primary:

• Utilize approved cleaning products in accordance with agency standards, practices and instructed use.
• Utilize appropriate PPE (personal protective equipment) when necessary for spills or decontamination processes.
• Conduct thorough cleaning of common areas, staff offices and participant rooms (upon request).
• Sanitize surfaces regularly.
• Assist with the set up and removal of onsite food services.
• Empty trash bins, shredders and recycling bins throughout the day and sanitize containers weekly.
• Dusting, vacuuming and buffing of floors on a routine basis.
• Engage in cleaning activities specific to inclement weather events such as snow, rain and ice including shoveling, de-icing or mopping of wet areas.
• Clean up spills quickly as they occur and are reported.
• Complete room turnover activities in accordance with program standards.
• Assist with de-escalation and crisis intervention as needed.
• Actively participate in supervision.
• Complete special projects or tasks needed to improve the physical environment of the program space.
• All other tasks as assigned by supervisor.

Secondary:

• Provide culturally competent services in accordance to Housing Works policies and practices.
• Promote Housing Works core values consistently.
• Ability to work with participants with diverse clients with varying levels of service needs.
• Engage in advocacy events as required and recommended by the agency and department
• Work collaboratively with other team members.

Other functions that may be required with this position include:

• Attend and participate staff meetings and trainings as scheduled.
• Responsiveness to emails, texts and phone calls.
• Ability to adapt and successfully uphold job functions in a full remote workforce or hybrid in-person remote workforce environment.
• Adhere to remote workforce policies, procedures and protocols.

Requirements:

• Ability to maintain a clean and healthy physical environment.
• Ability to utilize smart phone, Teams and Outlook email.
• Strong written documentation and communication skills
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and with a team

Job candidates should be aware that scammers may pose as employers and create fake job postings in order to extract personal information from individuals for financial gain. Housing Works will never ask job candidates for personal information, such as social security numbers or bank account details, over the phone. If you suspect that a job posting may be fake or wish to confirm that a job posting from Housing Works is genuine, please contact us at recruitment@housingworks.org

Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit www.housingworks.org

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works’ New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (“RWDSU”). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a “CBA”) between Housing Works and the RWDSU.