Vocational Program Assistant

Nexus-Woodbourne is seeking a Vocational Program Assistant that supports instructors in delivering hands-on vocational training by ensuring safe equipment use, maintaining tools and inventory, and supervising students. This role promotes a positive, respectful learning environment, provides behavioral guidance, and ensures student safety across classroom, campus, and residential settings. Strong communication, professionalism, and a commitment to youth development are essential.

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 Range $22 - $24 per hour!

On-site opportunity

Primary responsibilities:

Program & Student Supervision

• Demonstrates safe and effective use of vocational program tools and equipment while assisting the teacher with instruction.
• Monitors the vocational classroom environment and protocols to ensure students are safely operating equipment.
• Provides supervision to ensure that all students are wearing proper safety equipment.
• Assists with cataloging, tracking, and auditing all tools and equipment after purchase and after use.
• Assists the teacher and supervisor with recommendations for potential equipment purchases and repairs.
• Understands how to use vocational equipment as needed per the curriculum.
• Guides and monitors students who are learning to use equipment; interacts and effectively communicates with students and faculty with poise, professionalism, respect and empathy.
• Provides client supervision and mentorship while striving to understand child and adolescent development principles with intent to model and reinforce core fundamentals of youth development.
• Redirects student behavior as issues arises and assist with restraints when necessary while using sound judgement and remaining calm in the event of an emergency or crisis situation.
• Assists in monitoring and transporting students before and after school from the residential units.
• Demonstrates an acceptance and respectfulness toward diversity concerning commonalities and differences such as gender, race, age, culture, ethnicity, class, religion, disability, and gender identity.

Student Safety

• Serves 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.
• Ensures student resident safety and collaborates with co-workers to maintain an environment that is positive, respectful, clean, and safe for student social and emotional development and growth.
• Ensures 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.
• Performs First Aid/CPR procedures and responds according to established protocols in the event of an emergency situation

Nexus & Program Policy & Procedure

• Maintains appropriate boundaries in all interactions and contact with students' residents.
• Complies with Nexus policies involving privacy and confidentiality for student residents and their families; maintains working knowledge and application of all Nexus policies and procedures.
• Attends staff meetings and training sessions as required by Nexus. Understands and supports the Nexus philosophy and treatment modalities.

Required Education and Licensure:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Valid driver's license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Home Office driving requirements
• Minimum of 21 years of age

Preferred Education and Experience:

• 1+ year of related experience

ICARE Values & Behavioral Competencies:

• 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.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: 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.

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