Milieu Lead

Description

Nexus Family Healing - Austin Campus is now hiring for an energetic Milieu Lead!

Nexus Family Healing is a national nonprofit network of mental health agencies with over 50 years of restoring hope for thousands of children and families through outpatient/community mental health services, foster care, adoption, and residential treatment.

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.

• Ability to work days, evenings, and weekends
• Pay Range: $21.73 - $23.23
• Location: 1111 28th St NE, Austin, MN 55912

• 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!

In this role, you will be 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.

• 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…