Youth Care Professional

Nexus Family Healing • Onamia, MN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Nexus Family Healing is hiring Youth Care Professionals for our Mille Lacs agency in Onamia, MN! Nexus-Mille Lacs offers trauma-informed, family-centered, nationally recognized treatment for boys, ages 10-19, with significant mental health issues and harmful sexual behaviors. We strive to provide the best quality care for our youth as well as our employees. Nexus treatment programs have been creating brighter futures for over 50 years. 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 18 years of age
• Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Family Healing driving requirements
• Must successfully pass a DHS criminal background check
• All client facing employees must successfully participate and complete the Handle With Care behavior intervention method exam and training

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with families and trauma-exposed children and adolescents in a residential treatment/counseling capacity 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

Benefits

• 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
• Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
• Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
• Carrot Fertility Benefit
• Tuition assistance and training opportunities
• Advancement pathways and internal promotion

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED