Youth Care Professional - Boy's Group Home

Nexus Family Healing•Onamia, MN

8h•$20 - $22•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Experience working with families and trauma-exposed children in a group home setting highly preferred

Responsibilities

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