Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for a BEHAVIORAL CASE PLANNER

Location: Auburn or Syracuse, NY

Pay: $58,458/annually

Plus great benefits, including:

• 3 weeks of vacation (with eligibility to cash out earned vacation time)
• 10 holidays, 3 personal days
• Medical appointment time, 12 sick days a year (hold up to a maximum of 80 sick days) and sick leave pool
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance, Pet/Legal Insurance, Supplemental Insurance (life insurance, critical illness, enhanced short-term disability)
• Employee Assistance Program
• FSA/Transit/Parking saving accounts
• Supervision availability for licensure
• Identity protection
• Corporate discount programs
• 401k with a match up to 6%

Join our team and make a difference in the lives of children, youth and families in our community!

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, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB). 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:

The Cayuga Centers Upstate New York Treatment Family Foster Care (UNY TFFC) Team is looking for an individual who is passionate about supporting youth in the foster care system. We wrap services around the youth, their family/kin/caregivers, and the foster parents to get a child home or to a permanent home as soon as possible. As a Behavioral Case Planner, you will collaborate with foster parents daily, assist in creating treatment plans, understand and support the youths’ educational goals, and actively participate on the treatment team. It is an exciting position with ample opportunities to expand your expertise and experience in the human services field.

• Our Treatment Family Foster Care program serves youth in foster care between the ages of 0 and 21.

• We serve youth and families by teaming with local Department of Social Services officials, Office of Child and Family Services, Office of People With Developmental Disabilities, and community resource partners to provide bundled, strength-based, therapeutic interventions that change children’s lives.

• We MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the lives of children and families using a trauma informed lens by working on a treatment team that believes that every child matters and that all people have strengths.

• The role you play is pivotal in supporting youth and supporting families to reunify following the trauma of separation, or supporting youth to find permanent homes with kin or outside of their relatives.

How you get to use your skills…

• Become a primary support in helping foster parents and the youth foster a positive relationship and work towards permanency.

• Become an active treatment team member.

• Utilize a strengths-based and trauma informed treatment model to assist youth, families and foster parents.

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

Schedule:

This is a full-time, 40-hour a week position with rotating on-call responsibilities. A flexible schedule is possible.
Experience and Skills:

• Master’s degree in Human Services related field OR

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Human Services related field and a minimum of two years of experience with the Child Welfare field.

• Experience and passion for working with an interdisciplinary team.

• Experience with the foster care system.

• Excellent communication, organizational, writing, and collaboration skills.

• Possess the knowledge, skills, and attitude needed to appreciate and encourage diversity.

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 and/or taking public transportation to conduct client and family visits

• 3 weeks of vacation (with eligibility to cash out earned vacation time)
• 10 holidays, 3 personal days
• Medical appointment time, 12 sick days a year (hold up to a maximum of 80 sick days) and sick leave pool
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance, Pet/Legal Insurance, Supplemental Insurance (life insurance, critical illness, enhanced short-term disability)
• Employee Assistance Program
• FSA/Transit/Parking saving accounts
• Supervision availability for licensure
• Identity protection
• Corporate discount programs
• 401k with a match up to 6%

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

From: Cayuga Centers