Milieu Lead

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Nexus Family Healing is Now Hiring for a Milieu Lead at their facility in Austin, MN who is responsible for leading and ensuring that the daily programming of the milieu is carried out in a safe and productive manner by leading the shift, providing mentoring and coaching of team members, ensuring effective interventions are implemented and supported. If your energetic and love challenges, please apply and join our team!

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.

Pay/Location:

Pay range: $19 - $20.50/hr

Located at 1111 28th St NE, Austin, MN 55912

Requirements

Responsibilities :

Serves as a mentor and role model for Youth Care Professionals by following trauma-informed practices.

Ensures client safety and collaborates with co-workers to maintain an environment that is positive, respectful, clean and therapeutic.

Regularly assists in training and development processes for new Youth Care Professionals.

Leads the shift and ensures that all related daily shift activities occur as planned; coordinates daily decision-making and problem-solving as needed during the shift.

Counted as part of the staff/client ratio and performs all duties of a Youth Care Professional.

Leads and directs youth daily routine and coordinates changes and the deployment of staff in order to meet youth and milieu needs.

Watches over the milieu culture and instills interventions for the establishment of a healthy, safe, and effective residential culture

Assumes a leadership role among Youth Care Professionals to support trauma work in the milieu.

Participates in the planning and implementation of trauma-informed, strengths-based treatment plans, restorative approaches and therapeutic services.

Mentors and coaches other Youth Care Professionals on ways they can better respond to situations in alignment with the agency's treatment philosophy and the individual guidance plan.

Provides in the moment feedback in the milieu and intervene and/or redirect all Youth Care Professionals interactions that are not within the trauma response framework.

Leads staff in ensuring compliance with all emotional and physical safety policies and procedures involving living areas, buildings, campus grounds, and while attending off-campus activities

Coaches and mentors Youth Care Professionals to increase and enhance de-escalation skills and reduce the need for physical restraints.

Takes an active role in establishing and maintaining a work environment consistent with the agency standards and organizational values; carries out the vision of the agency and program leadership in supporting staff and youth.

Works effectively with client families and/or support networks to reinforce positive partnerships, engagement and involvement techniques.

Remains cognizant of clients' individual guidance plans and their individual needs while providing in the moment coaching and mentoring for optimal interactions and relationship building.

Collaborates with the clinical team to address concerns, strengths and recommendations to the Individual and Family guidance plans.

Ensures compliance with licensing, regulatory and accreditation bodies during scheduled shifts.

Complies with all documentation and standards in a timely manner and ensures the completion of all documentation and shift duties are completed by the end of the shift.

Conducts debriefing activities with Youth Care Professionals and youth regarding significant events in order to provide continuous quality improvement as needed.

Provides ongoing encouragement and verbal recognition of Youth Care Professionals, while also providing feedback about Youth Care Professionals' work performance on formal evaluations and for the purpose of employee development as necessary.

Company Dorm Openings located: Marseille High School aged youth / Bordeaux Middle School aged youth

Qualifications:

High School Diploma or equivalent.

Valid driver's license required. Maintains state regulating agency and company driving requirements

Must be 21 years of age

Nice to Have:

Associates degree or Bachelor's degree in a social work, psychology or clinically related field preferred.

Previous residential and youth mental health experience strongly preferred.

Nexus' Comprehensive Benefits Include:

Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment

Multiple options for health insurance coverage

No-cost life insurance

Short/long-term disability insurance

401k match

NEW - Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family

NEW - Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family

NEW - Carrot Fertility Benefit

Tuition assistance and training opportunities

Advancement pathways and internal promotion

And much more!

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.

Our ICARE 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

Keywords: milieu, direct support, team leads, team mentors