Job description

Nexus Family Healing is seeking a Youth Care Professional for the BRAND NEW county shelter, Aspen House based in Mendota Heights, Minnesota and servicing the area.

This is made possible through a collaboration between Dakota and Washington counties. The innovative program will not only provide temporary housing with a 12-bed unit for youth but also incorporate mental health services.

Nexus Family Healing has a 50-year history of providing services in diverse areas of mental health with enthusiasm and a willingness to look creatively at serving communities, restoring hope for thousands of children and families through outpatient/community mental health services, foster care, and adoption, and residential treatment. Using innovative, personalized approaches to heal trauma, break cycles of harm, and reshape futures. We believe every child is worth it – and every family matters.

In this role, you will support and reinforce the therapeutic treatment plan of clients by providing guidance, assistance, and direction to clients in their daily living activities and scheduled therapeutic activities.

1st shift: 7am-3:30pm, 2nd shift: 3:00pm-11:30pm, 3rd shift 11pm-7:30am with rotating weekends.

Responsibilities:

• Provide mentorship and supervision of client daily activities and behavior according to established guidelines and procedures.
• Participate with coworkers as a team on implementation of treatment plans and therapeutic services.
• Demonstrate an acceptance and respectfulness toward diversity concerning commonalities and differences such as gender, race, age, culture, ethnicity, class, religion, disability and gender identity.
• Ensure client safety and collaborate with coworkers to maintain an environment that is positive, respectful, clean and therapeutic.
• Plan and participate in client activities.
• Remain cognizant of individual client phases, privileges, restrictions and adapt interactions accordingly.
• Ensure compliance with all safety policies and procedures involving living areas, buildings,campus grounds and while attending off-campus activities.
• Work effectively with clients’ families/support networks to reinforce positive family partnerships; Follows established protocols in the use of family engagement and involvement techniques.
• Maintain appropriate boundaries in all interaction and contact with clients.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED required.
• Minimum 21 years of age.
• Valid Driver’s License Must meet state regulating agency and Corporate driving requirements.

Physical Demands:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. The job requires extended periods of sitting and standing. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits: We provide competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, including: four weeks paid time off in the first year of employment, multiple options for health insurance coverage, holiday pay, as well as no-cost life insurance and short/long-term disability insurance.

At Nexus Family Healing, we not only support diversity – we celebrate it and rely on it for the betterment of our employees, our services, and our impact on the community. We strive to provide the best quality care for our youth and the best work environment for our employees through an inclusive team culture.

Our Workplace Values: At Nexus Family Healing, our ICARE shared values (Innovation, Compassion, Agility, Responsiveness, and Excellence) are the foundation for our actions in the workplace. They define how we behave with each other, our clients, our partners, and our communities. Every interaction we have with each other will be met with understanding, kindness, and helpful action.The mental and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with DisabilitiesThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $19.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Evening shift
• Weekend availability

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Preferred)

Shift availability:

• Night Shift (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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