What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Care Professional position at Nexus Family Healing?
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Nexus Family Healing - Austin campus is looking for a resilient and compassionate Youth Care Professional who is able to provide youth exceptional care. Each person you work alongside is dedicated to a common purpose: changing lives through our cornerstone values.
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.
Schedule/Salary/Location:
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications:
Our ICARE Values
When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!
Salary Description
$18.50 - $20 per hour
Full-time
Description
Nexus Family Healing - Austin campus is looking for a resilient and compassionate Youth Care Professional who is able to provide youth exceptional care. Each person you work alongside is dedicated to a common purpose: changing lives through our cornerstone values.
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.
Schedule/Salary/Location:
- Ability to work days, evenings, and weekends
- Pay Range: $18.50 - $20.00
- Located at 1111 28th St NE, Austin, MN 55912
- Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
- 8 Paid Floating Holidays (64 hours) Annually
- 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!
Responsibilities
- Initiative engagement with client and provides safe interactions, mentorship and supervision of their daily activities and behaviors according to established guidelines and procedures
- Monitors and coach’s clients to achieve activities of daily living such as personal hygiene, grooming, upkeep of living areas and laundry
- Assures clients adhere to and engage in the daily schedules and activities established for the program, including school, therapy sessions, group sessions, external appointments, and family visits
- Serves as a mentor and role model by demonstrating compassion and understanding for feelings, and experiences of staff and clients; communicates in an honest, positive, and respectful manner
- Plans and participate in creating daily scheduling, activities, treatment planning, guidance plans, and safety protocols
- Demonstrates acceptance and inclusivity concerning individual commonalities and differences such as gender, race, age, culture, ethnicity, class, religion, disability, and gender identity
- Advocate for the client’s needs
- Engage in therapeutic interventions with clients within treatment parameters, while always maintaining healthy and appropriate boundaries with clients and families
- Demonstrate and abides by the Empowering Restorative Engagement Model (ERE Model) and programming; directs staff in developing action plans, safety planning through the ERE model
- Comply with Nexus policies involving privacy and confidentiality for clients and their families
- Complete all client related documentation accurately and professionally (incidents, progress notes, etc.)
Required Qualifications:
- Must be 21 Years of Age
- Must have a High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Must have a valid driver's license
- A desire to work in the human services field & caring for at-risk youth
- 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.
- Must successfully pass a MN criminal background check
- Successfully participate and complete a two-day Handle with Care exam and training.
- 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
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
$18.50 - $20 per hour
Salary : $19 - $20