Community Based Counselor

Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for a Community Based Clinician

Location: Albany, NY

Earn: $55,431 - $82,800 annually

Share our commitment to helping children, youth and families build strong/life changing relations and avoid hospitalization or placement. Bring your experience, compassion, and energy to the team and make a difference in the lives of children, youth and families!

About Cayuga Centers

Cayuga Centers is an accredited non-profit, human services agency dedicated to family support and preservation, trauma-informed care, and serving vulnerable populations with the most unique needs. Founded in 1852 in Auburn, NY, we have a long history of delivering high-quality and innovative services to individuals, children, youth and families. We have offices in 10 cities and serve over 10,000 individuals and families annually. Join us!

At Cayuga Centers, we embrace Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB). We do this by taking a firm stance against hatred, inequality, bias, and injustice. We do this by providing our staff with the training, coaching, and resources necessary to grow and serve with cultural humility, acceptance, and understanding. We are responsive to the diverse needs of those we serve and staff, and are committed to ensuring that everyone feels respected, valued, and a sense of belonging.

About the Program and Position:

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is a nationally researched and evidence-based model of home-based therapy. The key to MST is understanding the term multisystemic. This role provides clinical support working within the framework that incorporates the multitude of systems affecting an adolescent's life. The Therapist working within this model helps the family to start the process of eliminating negative factors and building positive elements that will change family behavior. This makes a difference because it decreases negative behavior in the home, empowers the caregivers, helps rebuild relationships, teaches parents how to collaborate with outside providers, work on coping skills with the families and more.

The MST model serves youth between the ages of 11-18 with a history of juvenile delinquency or at imminent risk of out-of-home placement. In this role we support youth and families in how to optimize potential and nurture the youth's positive role within their family and their community. Our MST Therapists help families reach their goals and desired outcomes through empowerment and strength focused therapy.

We believe in the potential and growth of our therapists and in this role you will receive on-going training and consultation to support the development of your clinical skills within this model.

Functional Family Therapy (FFT) Utilizes a nationally researched and evidence-based model of home-based therapy with the entire family unit to prevent out-of-home placement of youth. The goals of the program are to increase coping skills, increase problem solving skills, reduce the rate of out of home placement, improve family functioning, and decrease mental health problems for youth.

Our Functional Family Therapy (FFT) program serves youth ages 10-18 and their families. This evidence-based, family-focused therapy operates on the belief that all families have strengths and are doing the best they can at any point. With FFT, the entire family unit works together to prevent out-of-home placement, intervene on behalf of family rebuilding, and unify the family unit. Families work together through three FFT phases of engagement motivation, behavior change, and generalization with our licensed clinicians over 12-16 weeks.

How you get to use your skills…

• Apply and develop your clinical assessment, evaluation, and family therapy skills.

• Utilize a strengths-based and trauma-informed practice to help children, youth, and families identify their strengths and needs.

• Learn internationally utilized evidence-based treatment models.

• Provides intensive in-home family therapy, 2-3 times per week

• Partner with Practice Managers to ensure children, youth and families are quickly connected to needed programs and services.

• Demonstrate an inclusive practice both in the office and in the field to support a diverse and accepting culture.

• Contribute to a multidisciplinary team that shares your passion for children and families.

Schedule:

We are looking for an applicant who is willing to work with the youth/families at a time that suits the youth and family needs on a flexible schedule. This is a full-time, 40 hour a week position that will require evening hours.

• Bachelor's Degree with:

• Three years applicable experience in children's mental health, addiction, and/or foster care/child welfare/juvenile justice or other related human services field and certification in an Evidenced Based Practice. Must be enrolled in a graduate program or be willing to enroll in a relevant graduate program. OR

• Master's degree preferred.

• License and/or Limited Permit in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, or Mental Health Counseling with experience in strength-based family and children's services.

• Experience working with children and families in a community-based or ‘in-home' setting.

• Excellent communication, organizational and collaboration skills.

• A strong belief in the capacity of people to grow and change.

• Possess the knowledge, skills, and attitude needed to appreciate and encourage diversity, and understand the concept of cultural trauma as it applies to individual and family functioning.

• Knowledge and experience formulating clinical diagnoses and/or impressions.

• Ability to engage families who may have been unsuccessful in clinic settings.

• Ability to have flexibility in hours worked both routinely, so as to meet children and families when they are available, and occasionally, in response to crises which may occur at any hour of any day.

Physical Requirements:

• Use of a personal vehicle for driving to and from appointments and activities as assigned.

• Word processing: Including responding to emails, completing computerized documentation.

• Sitting for extended periods of time.

• Walking distances.

• Walking up and down stairs inside/outside.

• Lifting up to 50 pounds

• Pay is determined by education, professional license and years of applicable experience:

• Bachelor's degree: $55,431 - $60,974/annually

• Masters degree: $58,500 - $73,600/annually

• LMSW, LMFT, LMHC, LCAT: $64,000 - $73,600/annually

• LCSW: $72,000 - $82,800/annually

• 120 hours of vacation

• 10 Holidays, 3 Personal Days, Medical Appointment Time

• Supervision available for licensure

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Pet and Legal insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• FSA, Transit, and Parking savings accounts

• Supplemental life insurance, critical illness, enhanced short-term disability benefits

• 401(k) match up to 6 %

• Corporate Discounts Program

• Sick Leave Pool

• Identity Protection

• Hybrid remote working

Why Cayuga Centers?

• Certified Great Place to Work ®

• Workplace Wellness Award Finalist

• Council on Accreditation (COA) Accredited

• Implement best practices and evidence-based interventions

• Committed to employee professional development and advancement

• We embrace change, innovation and opportunities

• Our diverse workforce acts and leads with human sensitivity and respect

• Large and growing national footprint