Youth Care Professional - On Call

Nexus Family Healing; Mendota Heights (MN); On-site; USD 35,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

This innovative firm is seeking an On Call Youth Care Professional to support youth at a new county shelter. You will guide clients in their daily activities and implement therapeutic treatment plans. The role emphasizes mentorship, safety, and collaboration with families to foster positive partnerships. Working in a dynamic and compassionate environment, you will play a vital role in restoring hope and healing for children and families. With flexible shifts available, this position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact in the community while enjoying competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Four weeks paid time off

Multiple health insurance options

Holiday pay

No-cost life insurance

Short/long-term disability insurance

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required and must be at least 21 years old.
• Valid Driver’s License required, meeting state and corporate driving requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide mentorship and supervision of clients' daily activities.
• Ensure client safety and maintain a therapeutic environment.
• Plan and participate in client activities.

Skills

Mentorship

Supervision

Team Collaboration

Cultural Competency

Client Safety Management

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Nexus Family Healing is seeking an On Call Youth Care Professional for our 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.

We currently have 3 shifts available for our on call role:

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

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.

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.

Our Workplace Values:

• Innovation: Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches
• Compassion: Listening, honoring differences, and showing respect, kindness, empathy care, and concern.
• Agility: Exhibiting flexibility and adapting quickly
• Responsiveness: Being quick, positive, and accurate
• Excellence: Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:

At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions are focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.

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 Disabilities

About the company

We are a nonprofit network of agencies changing the course of a child's life by stabilizing families and strengthening mental health. #RestoringHope