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About the Role
Nexus Family Healing is seeking a Restorative Practice Specialist to empower students through social and emotional growth within the school setting to contribute to positive outcomes and brighter futures.
Responsibilities
- Develop a school-based restorative strategy that refocuses student behavior from disruption to self-reflection.
- Develop restorative strategies, practices, and processes in collaboration with the Administrative Team.
- Create supporting tools and resources to consistently apply and document restorative practices with students.
- Build trust, rapport, and credibility with school staff by providing tools, training, and education pertaining to restorative practices.
- Assess restorative referral forms submitted by school staff/behavioral interventionists.
- Assess student mood, body language and ‘pulse’, to determine if intervention and refocus time is needed.
- Evaluate the emotional state of each student that enters the restorative room.
- Create a restorative room, environment and space that fosters patience, trust and is free from judgment.
- Collaborate and communicate with school staff to identify and transition students to the restorative setting/room.
- Leverage restorative activities and training combined with a trauma informed care approach, to facilitate and counsel students on behavioral self-reflection.
- Act as a liaison between student and school staff.
- Mediate discussion between student and staff using restorative techniques.
- Foster balance and accountability by creating safe space with students.
- Guide students to find ways to improve behavior while instilling and solidifying positive interactions with trusted adults.
- Work with students to complete reflection forms.
- Maintain a strengths-based and trauma-informed care approach when working with school staff.
- Respond to school-based behavior referrals to assist in determining appropriate restorative responses.
- Provide training and assistance to support the implementation of restorative practices in the school.
- Develop training modules addressing restorative practices for school-based and non-school based staff.
- Analyze and leverage data to identify and deliver school-specific targeted technical assistance and coaching.
- Support the effective implementation of trauma informed care and restorative based disciplinary process.
- Create timelines for each restorative initiative.
- Collaborate with colleagues and management teams to determine opportunities for improvement.
- Advance the analysis, presentation, and progress of data-driven initiatives for school team and external audiences.
- Assign interactive and relevant professional development to school staff designed to increase their knowledge and skills.
Requirements
- High School Diploma with Paraprofessional Licensure Required.
- Minimum of 1+ year experience in an educational setting that required behavioral based trauma informed care.
- Valid driver’s license required.
- Must meet state regulating agency and Home Office driving requirements.
- Must have the ability to build strong relationships with diverse individuals or communities and understand their unique needs and challenges.
- Must be open to meeting the cultural needs of individuals or communities, considering factors such as language, traditions, and values.
- Must successfully pass a MN criminal background check.
- Successfully participate and complete a two-day Handle with Care exam and training.
- 2+ years’ experience in an educational or residential setting requiring behavioral based trauma informed care (Nice to Have).
- 2+ years’ experience in a setting with restorative justice practices (Nice to Have).
- 2+ years’ experience working with middle school and/or high school students (Nice to Have).
Skills
- Restorative Practices
- Trauma Informed Care
- Behavioral Intervention
- Social and Emotional Growth
- Mediation
- Data Analysis
- Coaching
- Training Development
- Customer Focus
- Adaptability
- Teamwork
- Planning & Organizing
- People Development
- Empathy & Self-Awareness
- Fosters a Safe Space
Location
- Austin, MN
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-site
Experience Level
- 1+ year experience in an educational setting that required behavioral based trauma informed care
- 2+ years’ experience in an educational or residential setting requiring behavioral based trauma informed care (Nice to Have)
- 2+ years’ experience in a setting with restorative justice practices (Nice to Have)
- 2+ years’ experience working with middle school and/or high school students (Nice to Have)
Education Level
- High School Diploma
- Paraprofessional Licensure
Salary/Compensations
- $21 - $23 per hour
Benefits
- 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
- Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
- Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
- Carrot Fertility Benefit
- Tuition assistance and training opportunities
- Advancement pathways and internal promotion
About the Company
- Nexus Family Healing is a national mental health organization serving a diverse group of youth and families.
- We embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion.
- We strive for our workforce to support and represent the diversity of the clients we serve.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.