Youth Care Professional

Nexus Family Healing•Onarga, IL

3d•$20 - $22•Onsite

About The Position

Nexus Family Healing is hiring 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.
Must be able to lift 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 the residential program.
Must be able to assist in proper restraining of client.

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.