What are the responsibilities and job description for the Teaching Assistant position at Nexus Family Healing?
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Nexus Family Healing - Austin Campus is hiring a Teaching Assistant to join our team at New Dominion School on the campus of Nexus Family Healing!
If you're looking for a position where you enjoy leading students to their highest potential, we would love the opportunity to bring you onboard!
Nexus Family Healing is a national nonprofit network of mental health agencies with over 50 years of restoring hope for thousands of children and families through outpatient/community mental health services, foster care, adoption, and residential treatment.
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.
Location/Pay/Schedule:
Provide support to education faculty in areas of student learning and provide support within both the educational and residential setting with student resident supervision and safety.
Responsibilities
Qualifications:
Our ICARE Values
When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!
Salary Description
$18 - $19/hr
Full-time
Description
Nexus Family Healing - Austin Campus is hiring a Teaching Assistant to join our team at New Dominion School on the campus of Nexus Family Healing!
If you're looking for a position where you enjoy leading students to their highest potential, we would love the opportunity to bring you onboard!
Nexus Family Healing is a national nonprofit network of mental health agencies with over 50 years of restoring hope for thousands of children and families through outpatient/community mental health services, foster care, adoption, and residential treatment.
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.
Location/Pay/Schedule:
- 1111 28th St NE, Austin, MN 55912
- Pay Range: $18 - 19/hr
- Monday - Friday
- Multiple options for health insurance coverage
- No-cost life insurance
- No-cost 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 opportunities
- And much more!
Provide support to education faculty in areas of student learning and provide support within both the educational and residential setting with student resident supervision and safety.
Responsibilities
- Provide educational assistance to clients within a classroom setting
- Provide client supervision and mentorship
- Ensure student resident safety and collaborate with co-workers to maintain an environment that is positive, respectful, clean, and safe
- Maintain professional boundaries with student residents
- Uphold privacy and confidentiality per Nexus policies
- Attend staff meetings and training sessions as required by Nexus
- Understand and support the Nexus philosophy and treatment modalities
Qualifications:
- Minimum 21 years of age
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must be able to assist staff in physical and non-physical interventions with residents
- 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 school
- Must be able to pass a DHS background screening
- All client-facing Nexus employees must successfully participate and complete a TCI exam and training
- 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.
- Previous classroom support experience
Our ICARE Values
- 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
When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!
Salary Description
$18 - $19/hr
Salary : $18 - $19