Shelter Advocate

Find your calling at Mercy!

Overview Responsible for working with administrative and direct services in developing and implementing emergency shelter services, i.e. crisis intervention, crisis counseling, intakes, assessments, orientations and cooperative living agreements.

Position Details

• Educational experience in human services or equivalent life experiences.
• Prefer knowledge and/or experience with residential care settings.
• Prefer knowledge and/or experience in crisis intervention and/or crisis counseling.
• Strong household management capabilities.
• Ability to work rotating shifts.
• Ability to work extended hours as needed.
• Ability to lift and push 50 pounds.
• Basic computer skills.
• Prefer knowledge and/or experience with residential care settings.
• Prefer knowledge and/or experience in crisis intervention and/or crisis counseling.
• Bilingual preferred.
• Valid drivers license preferred.

Why Mercy?

From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits -

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• paid time off
• tuition support
• matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.

Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. As we grow, you'll grow with us.

Transforming the Health of Our Communities

Our Mercy health system was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1986. But our heritage goes back more than 195 years. It began with an Irish woman named Catherine McAuley, who was determined to help women and children in Dublin experiencing poverty. Though Catherine had a modest upbringing, she received an unexpected inheritance that allowed her to fulfill that dream. In 1827, she opened the first House of Mercy in Dublin, intending to teach skills to women and educate children. Many volunteers came to help. A few years later, Catherine founded the Sisters of Mercy, one of the first religious orders whose Sisters were free to walk among the poor and visit them in their homes. In 1843, the Sisters of Mercy came to the United States. In 1856, they traveled to St. Louis. In the years to come, they would establish hospitals throughout the Midwest. Many of these would join together in 1986 as Mercy.