What are the responsibilities and job description for the SafeCare Home Visitor position at Cayuga Centers?
Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for a
SafeCare Home Visitor
Location: Ontario County, NY (Based out of Monroe Office)
Share our commitment to helping parents of infants and young children build practical and essential skills to add to their parenting toolbox. Bring your experience, compassion, and energy to the team and make a difference in Ontario County.
Cayuga Centers is looking for a SafeCare Home Visitor who is passionate about supporting families. Being a parent to an infant or young child can be challenging. Now, imagine how much a family’s life could change for the better if their parents were equipped with the knowledge and skills to promote healthy child development over critically important stages. Using an evidence-based and structured approach to skill building, you can serve as an agent of change that puts families on a positive path to resiliency. Are you inspired to work with young families and influence positive changes? If so, we would love for you to join our efforts in providing this critical service to families as a SafeCare Home Visitor. We look forward to hearing from you.
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. Join us!
At Cayuga Centers, we embrace diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. 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.
Cayuga Centers is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee, prospective employee, or applicant based on race, color, creed, hair style/texture, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws.
About the Program and SafeCare Home Visitor Position:
Our SafeCare program serves families with children ages 0-8. We serve by offering a model-focused community-based intervention, and this MAKES A DIFFERENCE because we teach, model and support families in making real time changes . The role of the SafeCare Home Visitor is incredibly important and rewarding.
How you get to use your skills as a SafeCare Home Visitor…
Looking for an applicant who is willing to work with parents/families at a time that suits the family’s needs on a flexible schedule. This is a full-time, 40-hour-a-week position.
Why Cayuga Centers?
SafeCare Home Visitor
- This is a temporary to possibly permanent position*
Location: Ontario County, NY (Based out of Monroe Office)
Share our commitment to helping parents of infants and young children build practical and essential skills to add to their parenting toolbox. Bring your experience, compassion, and energy to the team and make a difference in Ontario County.
Cayuga Centers is looking for a SafeCare Home Visitor who is passionate about supporting families. Being a parent to an infant or young child can be challenging. Now, imagine how much a family’s life could change for the better if their parents were equipped with the knowledge and skills to promote healthy child development over critically important stages. Using an evidence-based and structured approach to skill building, you can serve as an agent of change that puts families on a positive path to resiliency. Are you inspired to work with young families and influence positive changes? If so, we would love for you to join our efforts in providing this critical service to families as a SafeCare Home Visitor. We look forward to hearing from you.
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. Join us!
At Cayuga Centers, we embrace diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. 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.
Cayuga Centers is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee, prospective employee, or applicant based on race, color, creed, hair style/texture, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws.
About the Program and SafeCare Home Visitor Position:
Our SafeCare program serves families with children ages 0-8. We serve by offering a model-focused community-based intervention, and this MAKES A DIFFERENCE because we teach, model and support families in making real time changes . The role of the SafeCare Home Visitor is incredibly important and rewarding.
How you get to use your skills as a SafeCare Home Visitor…
- Actively participate as part of a team of service providers with the goal of keeping families together
- Educate parents or caregivers following the SafeCare Program curriculum
- Model skills surrounding parent-infant/child interaction, how to address a variety of health concerns, maintaining appropriate supervision and childproofing the home
- Assess parents or caregivers utilizing SafeCare skills, and provide specific positive and corrective feedback
- Demonstrate an inclusive and accepting practice both in the office and in the field to support a diverse and accepting culture
- Associate’s degree in a related field with experience working from a strengths-based perspective with families
- Ability and willingness to work with families in an “in-home” context
- Willingness to run parenting groups
- Excellent communication, organizational and collaboration skills
- Knowledge of the child welfare system
- 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
- Sitting for extended periods of time
- Walking up and down stairs inside/outside
- Must have the ability to type documentation and maintain proper files.
- Time on your feet for up to several hours a day
- Lifting up to 50 pounds
Looking for an applicant who is willing to work with parents/families at a time that suits the family’s needs on a flexible schedule. This is a full-time, 40-hour-a-week position.
Why Cayuga Centers?
- 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
- 120 hours of paid vacation
- 10 Holidays, 24 hours of paid Personal Time, Medical Appointment Time
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
- Pet and Legal insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental life insurance, critical illness, enhanced short-term disability benefits
- 401(k) available
- Corporate Discounts Program
- Sick Leave Pool
- Supervision available for licensure
- Identity Protection
Benefits:
Health Insurance, Vacation & Paid Time OffSalary : $25