Teaching Assistant

Nexus Gerard is hiring a Teaching Assistant to join our team at New Dominion School on the campus of Nexus Gerard 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.

Location:

• 1111 28th St NE, Austin, MN 55912

Pay/Schedule:

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

Nexus' Comprehensive Benefits Include:

• 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!

Position Summary:

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Qualifications:

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

Nice to Have:

• Previous classroom support experience

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

APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives - including your own!