Milieu Supervisor

  • Nexus Treatment
  • Manteno, Illinois
  • Full Time

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Job Type

Full-time

Description

Nexus Family Healing is hiring a Mlilieu Supervisor at our location in Manteno, IL. If you have a passion for changing lives and inspiring hope, please apply!

Nexus Family Healing is located south of Chicago in the small, rural community of Manteno, Illinois. We offer a unique homelike setting, where boys and girls ages 12 to 21 live, eat, exercise, and go to school on campus. Helping youth face difficult challenges isn't easy - but for most of us, it's the most satisfying work we've ever done.

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.

Work Environment:

  • Maybe required to assist staff in proper restraining of clients.
  • Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds unassisted and up to 100+ pounds with assistance.
  • Must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time (2-4 hours).
  • Must be able to walk, sit, stand, twist, bend, and stretch in a manner conducive to the execution of daily activities within the residential program.
  • This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as desktop and/or laptop computers, photocopiers, and smartphones.

Schedule & Pay:

  • Full-time; on-site opportunity.
  • Salary offers starting at $57,000 - 62,000 annually based on years of related experience and credentials.

Nexus' Comprehensive Benefits Include:

  • Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
  • Floating Holidays!
  • 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, discounts, and professional training opportunities
  • Advancement pathways and internal promotion
  • Internships opportunities
  • And much more!

Position Summary: The Milieu Supervisor is responsible to provide trauma-informed milieu leadership and mentorship in the treatment guidance plans through effective communication, organization, and planning of the daily operations of the program and assigned unit.

Primary responsibilities:

Strengths Based Trauma Informed Treatment Program

  • Prepares assigned staff work schedules in a timely and proactive manner to ensure adequate staff and client ratios, maximization of the treatment processes, and emotional and physical safety of the clients.
  • Assists in the planning and scheduling of trauma-informed daily treatment services such as ensuring transportation needs are met, scheduling of family time and contact, special events, functions, and approved program trips.
  • Ensures that staff are performing their assigned duties and interacting with clients in a calm, therapeutic, and trauma-informed manner while reinforcing program and client related decisions.
  • Contributes to the development of guidance plans and ensures adherence to guidance plans and provides mentoring and support to the assigned direct and indirect team members.

Program Documentation & Treatment Planning

  • Coordinates and ensures that all shift related client and staff documentation is completed in a timely manner using the proper format and ensures all proper notifications are made to leadership, referral agents, and client's families.
  • Assists in the development and establishment of program procedures and systems that contribute to efficient, safe, and effective delivery of treatment services to clients and their families.
  • Initiates, identifies, and analyzes potential or current problems or risk factors on the program and generates alternative solutions
  • Participates as a multi-disciplinary team member in developing and implementing client treatment plans and interventions.

Admissions & Service Delivery

  • Ensures that new admissions are entering into a safe and welcoming environment and all admission milieu needs of the youth and family are met
  • Monitors the delivery of treatment services to clients for proper follow-through within the program and to ensure family inclusion and communication
  • Tracks the daily needs of youth related to clothing, dietary needs, court/treatment plan/referral source meetings, family time and contact
  • Leads the assignment of Youth Care Professionals as youths' "primary" staff in working with youth to conduct youth check-ins, youth advocacy, and communicating the youth needs to the staff team
  • Participates in the interview and selection of staff/team members

Staff Supervision & Leadership

  • Ensures that new youth care professionals are mentored properly and completes all required shadowing responsibilities.
  • Provides direct floor coverage during staff absences, emergencies and for on-call coverage, as needed, according to program guidelines.
  • Provides on the job coaching, training, and mentoring to staff and leads them in the implementation of individualized responses and interventions, and trauma-informed youth interactions, for a calm, positive and therapeutic environment.
  • Ensures staff timecards are accurately maintained and approved in a timely manner.
  • Provides direct supervision of assigned staff and provide performance management for staff on an ongoing basis. Conduct formal and informal performance evaluations that are timely, constructive, strength-based, and include a development component.
  • Works in collaboration with clinical supervisor, clinical director, and the Human Resources Department on disciplinary issues.

Requirements

Required Education and Licensure:

  • Minimum of two (2) years of college credits earned
  • Minimum of two (2) years of job related experience working in a residential setting
  • Minimum of one (1) year of supervisory experience
  • Valid Illinois driver's license
  • At least 25 years of age

Nice to Have:

  • Associate's or Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology or a clinical related field: OR
  • Minimum of 5 years job related experience in adolescent counseling and/or residential treatment program experience, plus 1-year supervisory experience

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion: At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions will be focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.

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.

Salary Description

$57,000 - $62,000 Annually

Job ID: 488442445
Originally Posted on: 8/7/2025

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