Youth Care Professional - Girl's Group Home

Nexus Family Healing; Andover (MN); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexus Family Healing is seeking a Youth Care Professional at their Willow Trails Group Home in Andover, MN. This role involves providing mentorship, supervision, and support for residents, ensuring their safety, and helping them with their emotional and social development. Ideal candidates have a high school diploma and experience in trauma-informed care.

Qualifications

• Minimum 21 years of age.
• Valid driver’s license required.
• Experience working with trauma-exposed children and adolescents.

Responsibilities

• Provide mentorship and supervision of residents.
• Conduct 30-minute well-being checks on youth.
• Ensure resident safety and maintain a therapeutic environment.

Skills

Mentorship

Supervision

Collaboration

Crisis Management

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Willow Trails Group Home is located in Andover, MN and is a part of Nexus-Mille Lacs. We offer a trauma-informed, family-centered, nationally recognized treatment for struggling teenage girls 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.

As a Youth Care Professional you will:

• Provide mentorship and supervision of residents according to established guidelines and procedures.
• Participate with co-workers as a team to ensure youth receive quality services.
• Ensure resident safety and collaborate with co-workers to maintain an environment that is positive, respectful, clean and therapeutic.
• Conduct 30-minute well-being checks on youth.
• Assume staff-in-charge duties when assigned
• Perform other responsibilities, tasks and projects as needed, including but not limited to cleaning, laundry, documentation etc.

Education, Credentials and Experience

• High School diploma or GED required
• Minimum 21 years of age
• Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and corporate driving requirements
• Experience working with families and trauma-exposed children and adolescents in a residential treatment

Pay and Schedule:

• Rotating weekends
  • • Saturdays and Sundays: 9am-9pm; 2 Weekdays: 1pm-9pm
    • Monday - Friday: 1pm-9pm
• $18 an hour!

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. Nexus Family Healing is proud to be an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

Keywords:“Trauma-Informed Care”, “Residential Treatment”, “Direct Care Professional”, “Direct support”, “Youth Support Professional”, “Mental Health”, “Children’s Mental Health”, “Social Work”, “Social Services”, “Nonprofit”, “Human Services”, “Healthcare”, “Psychology”, “Clinical Trainee” "Youth Counselor" "Youth Care"

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