Family Support Counselor

Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for FAMILY SUPPORT COUNSELOR

Location: Canandaigua, NY

Pay: $58,500 - $68,500/annually

Plus great benefits, including 3 weeks of vacation, 10 holidays, 3 personal days, sick time, 401K matching, Clinical Supervision toward licensure, training and opportunity for certification in trauma-informed, evidenced based/informed treatment models such as Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Focused-CBT (at no cost to you), hybrid remote working and more!

Share in our belief in the inherent strengths of every family. Our approach is rooted in recognizing and building upon these strengths to stabilize families within the child welfare system in Ontario County. 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:

Share our belief that all have the ability to change by using a strengths-based approach to helping stabilize families involved in the child welfare system.

Our Family Support Program (FSP) serves families that have a child/children at risk of foster care placement or in need of an intensive program. This program runs for 4-6 months with 1-2 clinician meetings a week. The goal of the program is to reduce the risk of removal, and reduce the involvement of Child Protective Services in a family's life. Our clinicians work with families to help build skills to increase positive interactions in the home and in the community. The program offers a wide range of services that are customized to support the family's needs.

How you get to use your skills…

• Demonstrate your areas of clinical strength by implementing various therapeutic interventions/modalities in your practice, which heavily includes solution-focused therapy.

• Modeling and teaching basic life skills to empower individuals and families to become self-sufficient.

• Become a primary support in helping families to develop preventative and responsive skills to crisis.

• Serve as a leader in collaborative efforts to develop an individualized service plan that will drive the provision of Resiliency services and deliver in a manner that is trauma informed and strengths-based.

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

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 with rotating on-call responsibilities.
  

• Master’s degree with experience in strength-based family and children services required.

• License and/or Limited Permit in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, or Mental Health Counseling preferred.

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

• Knowledge of the Child Welfare system.

• Excellent communication, organizational, and collaboration skills.

• 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.

Physical Requirements:

• Computer work requires sitting at a desk for long periods of time

• Time on your feet for up to several hours a day

• Lifting up to 50 pounds

• Time driving to conduct client and family visits
  

• Pay ranges:

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

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

• LCSW: $72,000 - $82,800/annually

• 120 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