Youth Care Professional - On Call
About The Position
Nexus Family Healing is hiring On Call Youth Care Professionals for our Onarga, IL location! Nexus-Onarga Family Healing is located approximately 30 miles south of Kankakee and 45 miles north of Champaign-Urbana, just a few miles off of I-57 on a historic site in Onarga, IL. Nexus Onarga provides boys ages 10 to 20 years old a structured, homelike environment where they can safely address a variety of unhealthy behaviors and mental health issues as well as childhood trauma. 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. The Youth Care Professional is responsible for providing reliable and timely support and reinforcement of all therapeutic programing by providing guidance and direction to clients in their daily living activities by utilizing trauma informed practices to maintain a safe environment, while ensuring the client’s needs are met.
Requirements
- Minimum 21 years of age
- High School diploma or GED is required.
- Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Home Office driving requirements.
- Must successfully pass a DCFS criminal background check.
Responsibilities
- Acts as a mentor and role model by showing compassion, empathy, and respectful communication with staff and clients.
- Plans and participates in creating daily scheduling, activities, treatment planning, guidance plans, and safety protocols.
- Coaches clients in daily living skills, including hygiene, grooming, upkeep of living areas and laundry.
- Accurately administers medications and ensures compliant, precise documentation.
- Provides therapeutic support within treatment guidelines while maintaining healthy boundaries with clients and families.
- Facilitates or co-facilitates educational groups that support treatment plan goals, and therapeutic programming.
- Leads and supervises off-campus client activities, assisting with client transportation for visits, appointments, and events.
- Creates a safe, supportive space while promoting accountability and encouraging clients’ social and emotional growth.
- Applies trauma-informed care and restorative practices to support accountability with clients and staff.
- Ensures safety compliance across living areas, campus grounds, and off-campus activities.
- Performs First Aid/CPR procedures and responds according to established protocols in the event of an emergency.
- Stays calm and uses effective de-escalation techniques aligned with crisis management training.
- Maintains positive team collaboration and actively participates in meetings, advocating for client and family needs.
- Assumes responsibility for managing the milieu in the absence of leadership, as needed.
- Participates in the onboarding, training and development and assumes mentorship role for new staff.
Benefits
- Endless training on mental health & trauma informed care
- Internal advancement opportunities without further education required
- Ongoing support of a team of trained & experienced professionals
- Employee Referral Bonus program
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
