Teaching Assistant

Nexus Family Healing - Gerard Campus is hiring a Teaching Assistant to join our team at New Dominion School on the campus of Nexus Family Healing!

If you're looking for a position where you enjoy leading students to their highest potential, we would love the opportunity to bring you onboard!

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.

• 1111 28th St NE, Austin, MN 55912

• Pay Range: $18 - 19/hr
• Monday - Friday

• Multiple options for health insurance coverage
• No-cost life insurance
• No-cost 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 opportunities
• And much more!

Provide support to education faculty in areas of student learning and provide support within both the educational and residential setting with student resident supervision and safety.

• Provide educational assistance to clients within a classroom setting
• Provide client supervision and mentorship
• Ensure student resident safety and collaborate with co-workers to maintain an environment that is positive, respectful, clean, and safe
• Maintain professional boundaries with student residents
• Uphold privacy and confidentiality per Nexus policies
• Attend staff meetings and training sessions as required by Nexus
• Understand and support the Nexus philosophy and treatment modalities

Provide educational assistance to clients within a classroom setting.

• Provide instructional assistance to student residents on an individual basis per established lesson plans; communicate and interface with students with care, concern, patience and professionalism and work to contribute to and facilitate a safe environment for students conducive to the best learning outcomes.
• Carries out lesson plans as needed in the absence of a teacher and provide educational assistance to students on assigned subject materials, projects and assignments.
• Assist with the preparation of classroom materials and handouts.
• Assist with records management, i.e., student attendance, progress reports, etc.
• Provide classroom supervision for study halls or in the absence of the teacher; demonstrate a spirit of cooperation and collaboration in an effort to support the teacher and classroom goals and initiatives.
• Request supplies as needed or directed for classroom activities.
• Understand and support student treatment plans and IEPs (Individual Treatment Plans).

Provide client supervision and mentorship.

• Assist in maintaining a positive learning environment by monitoring student resident behavior, redirecting residents when issues arise, and assisting with restraints when necessary.
• Assist in monitoring and transporting students before and after school from the residential units.
• Demonstrate an acceptance and respectfulness toward diversity concerning commonalities and differences such as gender, race, age, culture, ethnicity, class religion, disability and gender identify.
• Serve as mentor and role model by demonstrating compassion and understanding for feelings, opinions, and experiences of others, and communicating and interacting in a manner that is honest, positive, respectful, and professional.
• Continually strive to understand and grow knowledge in areas of child and adolescent development principles in an effort to model and reinforce positive youth development and social and emotional growth.

Ensure student resident safety and collaborate with co-workers to maintain an environment that is positive, respectful, clean, and safe.

• Ensure compliance with all safety policies and procedures involving living classroom and school area, building, campus grounds and residential areas when assigned or when attending off-campus activities.
• Perform First Aid/CPR procedures and respond according to established protocols in the event of an emergency situation.
• Maintain appropriate boundaries in all interactions and contact with student residents.
• Comply with Nexus policies involving privacy and confidentiality for student residents and their families.

Attend staff meetings and training sessions as required by Nexus. Understand and support the Nexus philosophy and treatment modalities.

Understand, upload, and comply with all Nexus policy and procedures regarding student resident confidentiality.

• Minimum 21 years of age
• High School Diploma or equivalent

• Previous classroom support…