Family Support Counselor

Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for FAMILY SUPPORT COUNSELOR

Earn: $58,500 - $82,800 / annually

Location: Utica, NY

Share our commitment to helping children, youth and families build strong/life changing relationships 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:

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 Home and Community-Based Treatment and Support program seeks a self-motivated, compassionate, and dedicated individual looking to support children and families in the community. Using your therapeutic skills, you will help families to identify their needs and strengths to overcome the challenges that they may face as a caretaker. Keeping families safely together is our top priority. Are you inspired to keep families together and thrive in their environment? Do you find yourself finding strengths in the most difficult situations? This may be a great position for you!

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 in Human Services or related field required

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

• 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 time

• 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