Director of CNY TFFC Clinical Services+ + Job Tracking ID: 512690-880784
Job Location: Auburn, NY
Job Level: Management
Level of Education: Masters Degree
Job Type: Full-Time/Regular
Date Updated: June 12, 2024
Years of Experience: Up to 2 Years
Starting Date: ASAP
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Job Description:
Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for Director of UNY TFFC Clinical Services
Location: Auburn, NY/Liverpool, NY
Earn: $90,000/annually
4 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 UPSTATE NEW YORK (UNY) TREATMENT FAMILY FOSTER CARE (TFFC) TEAM AS A DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL SERVICES AND HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN 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:
Treatment Family Foster Care (TFFC) is a research-informed, multi-tiered team approach to rebuilding family relationships. We work with children and teens (ages 0-21) who need high levels of support due to trauma they have experienced in their homes or communities. Each youth is carefully matched to foster parents, and a treatment plan specific to the needs of the youth is developed. Our foster parents are provided enhanced trauma-informed training and wraparound services to ensure the placement is secure until permanency is achieved. 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.
Cayuga Centers is looking for a Director of Clinical Services for our Upstate New York Treatment Family Foster Care (UNY TFFC) program. The Director of UNY TFFC Clinical Services will work under the direction of the Vice President of UNY TFFC Services to coordinate treatment planning for all youth and families served in the Treatment Family Foster Care (TFFC) program. The Director of UNY TFFC Clinical Services will also provide weekly clinical supervision to program clinicians, supporting their professional clinical development. At times, the Director may provide direct individual and family therapy to youth and their families to provide additional treatment and support.
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.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the lives of children and families using a trauma informed lens, 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…
Support and co-lead a treatment foster program focused upon maintaining clinically-led vision and evidence based roots.
Oversee clinical interventions within the UNY TFFC Program, including assessment, evaluation, treatment plan development, and implementation of trauma-informed interventions.
Advise and support clinicians and treatment teams during crisis situations and support the development of safety plans
Provide weekly individual and group supervision and development opportunities
Support and model appropriate interdisciplinary team work, including directing communication with LDSS caseworkers, Family Court judges, Attorneys, probation departments, substance abuse providers, school staff members, physical health providers, and informal supports to the child and family
Support the development and co-facilitation of foster parent support group meetings
Enhance and refine your clinical skills - Training will be provided on internationally utilized evidence-based and trauma-informed treatment models.
Opportunity for training in evidenced based models such as Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Focused-CBT. FFT, MST, and other clinically focused EBPs are also offered within the agency.
Schedule:
40 hours per week
Ability to flex schedule to meet program needs, including ability to work afternoons, evenings, and weekends
Oversee the on-call rotation. Availability to treatment team to support crisis response
Experience and Skills:
LCSW required with at least 2 years of experience working with youth and families in out-of-home care
Experience in clinical supervision required with demonstrated experience in provision of individual, group, and family therapy modalities
Demonstrated use of effective leadership skills
Ability to advise staff during challenging or escalated situations, create necessary safety plans, and provide feedback following the intervention
Ability and willingness to work with families in an "in-home" context
Experience with Evidence Based practice preferred
Knowledge and experience with Family Systems Theory
Knowledge and experience formulating clinical diagnoses and coaching clinicians through that process
Understanding of fee-for-service billable services required
Experience supervising and navigating interdisciplinary teams
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:
Ability to sit or stand for prolonged periods of time
Ability to walk up and down stairs repeatedly
Computer work requires sitting at a desk for long periods of time
Lifting up to 50 pounds
Benefits
4 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%
As a full time benefits position, staff is eligible to enroll in medical, dental, vision, FSA, supplemental life insurance, critical illness, enhanced short-term disability, and 401(k) benefits.In accordance with Federal, state & local laws, we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment drug testing.