Earn $55,000- $70,000/annually based on level of education, 3 weeks of vacation, Hybrid work schedule, 10 calendar holidays (including 1 floating holiday), 24 hours personal time, and up to 80 sick days. Supervision available for licensure!JOIN OUR TEAM AS A COMMUNITY BASED CLINICIAN IN ONONDAGA COUNTY AND HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN IN OUR COMMUNITY!

Share our commitment to helping children, youth and families build strong, life changing relationships. Cayuga Centers is seeking clinicians who are passionate about strengths-based, trauma-informed, youth-and family-centered work to work with youth and families in their homes, community or foster care settings. Our clinicians utilize therapeutic skills to help children, youth and families.

Cayuga Centers, a leading provider of evidence-based programs, is seeking clinicians to join our Multisystemic Therapy, Functional Family Therapy, Enhanced Foster Care Support and Family Support programs.

• Is family therapy your preferred modality?

• Are you eager to learn a model that deeply assesses teenage behavior and provides parents with a clinically supported lens to respond to this concerning behavior?

• Are you interested in helping to stabilize and keep families together in their home?

• Do you have a passion for ensuring foster parents are equipped to support the clinical needs of their foster children?

If any of this interests you, we’d love for you to join our team in helping children and families create safe, happy and healthy environments.

Schedule: We are looking for an applicant who is willing to work a flexible schedule that suits the youth and family needs. This is a full-time, 40 hour a week position that will require evening and possibly weekend hours.

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, recognize and work through issues that have been identified.

• Learn internationally utilized evidence based treatment models

• 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.

• Develop individualized service plans that will drive the provision of services and deliver in a manner that is trauma informed and strengths-based.

• Enhance the functioning of youth and their families while helping them build stronger relationships for their future.

• Become a support in helping children/youth and families respond and intervene to crises.

• Licensed Clinicians or those with a Limited Permit preferred, Masters level applicants will be considered case by case.

• Masters degree 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

• Knowledge of the Child Welfare System

Physical Requirements:

• Driving to and from appointments and activities as assigned.

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

• Lifting of Agency file books - weighing approximately 6-8 lbs each - 5 inch binders. File in them as needed, including sorting paperwork, hole punching, opening and closing of binder rings.

• Completing paperwork, such as copying and stapling.

• Sitting for extended periods of time.

• Walking distances.

• Walking up and down stairs inside/outside.

Cayuga Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Women, Veterans, and members of the BIPOC community are strongly encouraged to apply. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment drug testing.

From: Cayuga Centers