Vocational Program Assistant

Nexus Family Healing is looking to hire a dynamic Vocational Program Assistant for our Baltimore, MD location!

The Vocational Program Assistant is a friendly, supportive team member who helps students develop practical vocational skills while fostering a safe and positive learning experience. In collaboration with the Vocational Program Teacher and Supervisor, this role provides instructional support, supervises student activities, and models safe workplace practices to help students reach their full potential.

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. 

Schedule/Location/Pay: 

• 1301 Woodbourne Ave, Baltimore, MD
• Salary Range - $21.00 - $23.00 per hour
• Full Time - On-site opportunity 

Nexus’ Comprehensive Benefits Include:  

• Eight Days of PTO in First Year of employment.
• Seven Paid Holidays
• Spring, Summer, Winter Breaks
• 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!

Position Summary: The Program Vocational Assistant provides support to the Vocational Program Teacher and Supervisor with vocational instruction and demonstrates safe practices while supervising and supporting students.

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 arise, 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 Home Office driving requirements
•  Minimum of 21 years of age
• Successfully participate and complete a Safety Crisis Management exam and training
• Must successfully pass a CJIS background check

Preferred Education and Experience:

•  One (1) year of related experience

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:

At Nexus Family Healing, we not only support diversity – we celebrate it and rely on it for the betterment of our employees, our services, and our impact on the community. We strive to provide the best quality care for our youth and the best work environment for our employees through an inclusive team culture. Nexus Family Healing is proud to be an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

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.

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