SafeCare Home Visitor

Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for a Safe Care Home Visitor

* This is a temporary to possibly permanent position*

Earn: $25.00/hour

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 Safe Care 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 Safe Care Home Visitor. We look forward to hearing from you.

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.

Our Safe Care 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 Safe Care Home Visitor is incredibly important and rewarding.

• Actively participate as part of a team of service providers with the goal of keeping families together
• Educate parents or caregivers following the Safe Care 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 Safe Care 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…