SafeCare Home Visitor

About the role

Cayuga Centers is hiring a SafeCare Home Visitor. This is a temporary to potentially permanent position. The role involves serving families with children aged 0-8 through an evidence-based, structured approach to skill building.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate as part of a team of service providers with the goal of keeping families together
• Teach, model, and support families in making real time changes using the SafeCare Program curriculum
• Assess parents or caregivers utilizing SafeCare skills, and provide specific positive and corrective feedback
• Model skills surrounding parent-infant/child interaction, how to address a variety of health concerns, maintaining appropriate supervision and childproofing the home
• Provide education to parents or caregivers following the SafeCare Program curriculum
• Demonstrate an inclusive and accepting practice both in the office and in the field to support a diverse and accepting culture

Requirements

• A minimum of an 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
• Knowledge of 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

Qualifications

• Sitting for extended periods of time
• Walking up and down stairs inside and outside
• Must have the ability to type documentation and maintain proper files
• Lift up to 50 pounds

Skills

• Strengths-based perspective
• Evidence-based interventions
• Parenting group facilitation
• SafeCare Program curriculum implementation
• Child welfare system knowledge
• Diversity and cultural trauma awareness

Benefits

• 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

Pay

$25.00/hour

Schedule

This is a full-time, 40-hour-a-week position with a flexible schedule to accommodate the needs of the families served.

Benefits

• Supervision available for licensure
• Identity protection

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 embrace diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and provide 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. We are an equal opportunity employer and do 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.