- Salary
- $20 – $22
- Location
- Onamia, MN
- Department
- Healthcare
- Experience
- 21+ years
- Education
- High School
- Source
- Paylocity
Description
Description
Nexus Family Healing is hiring a Youth Care Professional for our Boy's Group Home in Onamia, MN!
New Trails Group Home is located in Onamia, MN and is a part of Nexus-Mille Lacs. We offer a trauma-informed, family-centered, nationally recognized treatment for struggling teenage boys in a Group Home setting where we work with our youth in character growth, emotional healing, and social maturity while confronting the core issues that resulted in their placement. Effective and positive behavior techniques are incorporated to promote healing in addition to addressing underlying trauma and mental health needs.
At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity. Employees must have the ability to build strong relationships with diverse individuals or communities and understand their unique needs and challenges. Must be open to meeting the cultural needs of individuals or communities, considering factors such as language, traditions, and values.
Pay:
- $20-22 an hour!
- Advancement and Lead opportunities available!
Address:
312 Elm St S.
Onamia, MN 56359
Schedule:
Week 1 Schedule:
Saturday off
Sunday off
Monday 12pm-8:30pm
Tuesday 12pm-8:30pm
Wednesday off
Thursday 6:30am-8:30pm (double)
Friday 6:30am-2pm
Week 2 Schedule:
Saturday 12pm-8:30pm
Sunday 6:30am-8:30pm (double)
Monday off
Tuesday 12pm-8:30pm
Wednesday off
Thursday off
Friday off 12pm-8:30pm
Nexus Comprehensive Benefits Include:
- Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
- Health, dental and vision insurance coverage
- No-cost life insurance
- Short/long-term disability insurance
- 401k match
- NEW - Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
- NEW - Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
- NEW – Carrot Fertility Benefit
- Tuition assistance and training opportunities
- Advancement pathways and internal promotion
- And much more!
As a Youth Care Professional, you will:
- Provide supervision of client daily activities and behavior according to established trauma-informed, strengths-based guidelines and procedures
- Participate with coworkers as a team on implementation of trauma-informed, strengths-based treatment plans and therapeutic services
- Ensure clients’ emotional and physical safety and collaborate with coworkers to maintain an environment that is positive, respectful, clean, strengths-based, and therapeutic
- Participate in off-campus client activities and assist in the transportation of client for home visits, doctor appointments, planned recreational activities, etc.
- Work effectively with clients’ families/support networks to reinforce positive family partnerships; follow established protocols in the use of family engagement and involvement techniques
At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions are focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.ICARE Values & Behavioral Competencies:
- Innovation: Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches.
- Compassion: Listening, honoring differences, and showing respect, kindness, empathy care, and concern.
- Agility: Exhibiting flexibility and adapting quickly.
- Responsiveness: Being quick, positive, and accurate.
- Excellence: Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards.
Requirements
Required:
- High School diploma or GED required
- Minimum 21+ years of age
- Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Family Healing driving requirements
- Experience working with families and trauma-exposed children and adolescents in a residential treatment/counseling capacity
- Must successfully pass a DHS criminal background check
Preferred:
- Experience working with families and trauma-exposed children in a group home setting highly preferred
Physical Demands
- Must be able to assist staff in physical interventions and restraints of clients
- Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted and up to 100 pounds with assistance
- Must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time (2-4 hours)
- Must be able to twist, bend and stretch in a manner conducive to the execution of daily activities within a residential treatment facility
APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!