Youth Care Professional

Nexus Family Healing

Nexus Family Healing is hiring temporary Youth Care Professionals for their Onarga, IL location. The position offers a salary starting at $20.40-$22.00 per hour based on education and experience, with a four-week training period.

Benefits

• Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• 8 additional paid holidays
• Multiple options for health insurance coverage
• No-cost life insurance
• Short/long-term disability insurance
• 401k match
• Mental Health: Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
• Hinge Health (musculoskeletal) Benefit for the whole family
• Carrot Fertility Benefit
• Tuition assistance, discounts, scholarships, CEUs, and enhanced job-specific training opportunities
• Advancement pathways and internal promotion

Responsibilities

• Daily Youth Care Support
• 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.
• Treatment Planning & Protocol
• 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.
• Client & Family Reinforcement
• 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.
• Client Safety & Agency Policy & Procedures
• 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.
• Agency and Team Collaboration
• 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.

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 open to meeting the cultural needs of individuals or communities, considering factors such as language, traditions, and values.

Work Environment

• 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.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as desktop and/or laptop computers, photocopiers, and smartphones.