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Foster Care Therapist
Cayuga Centers
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USD 62,500-64,500 / year
Posted on Nov 7, 2025
Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for a FOSTER CARE THERAPIST(TFFC CLINICIAN) for UNY!
Location: Auburn, NY
*This is a temporary to possibly permanent position*
Pay: $62,500 - $64,500/annually
Plus great benefits, including:
- 3 weeks of vacation
- 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 team and make a difference in the lives of children, youth and families 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.
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 Foster Care Therapist 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.
Foster Care Therapists (TFFC Clinicians) coordinate treatment planning and delivery for all program youth and families. A clinician strives to build a partnership between the youth, foster family, and biological family; provides treatment in the forms of individual and family therapy to these assigned youth and families; and maintains professionalism in all areas, including confidentiality. Our clinicians MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the lives of children and families using a trauma informed lens by working on a treatment team that believes that every child matters and that all people have strengths. The role you will 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 as a Foster Care Therapist…
- 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.
- Provide individual therapy to program youth using the ARC Framework.
- Complete psychosocial assessments, mental health assessments, and treatment plans.
- Learn internationally utilized evidence-based treatment models.
- Participate in 24-hour on-call availability for program youth and parents.
- Provide record keeping and documentation for all clinical activities (case documentation).
- Respond in a positive and respectful manner to diversity among the agency’s service population and staff.
- Partner with Practice Managers to ensure children, youth, and families are quickly connected to needed programs and services.
- 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.
Required Experience of a Foster Care Therapist:
- License or Limited Permit 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.
- Familiarity with 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.
Physical Requirements of a Foster Care Therapist:
- Computer work requires sitting at a desk for long periods of time
- Time on your feet for up to several hours a day
- Lifting up to 10 pounds
- Time driving and/or taking public transportation to conduct client and family visits
Schedule:
Looking for an applicant who is willing to work with the youth/families at a time that suits the youth and family needs on a flexible schedule. This is a full-time, 40-hour-a-week position.
Why Cayuga Centers?
- Certified Great Place to Work ®
- Silver Recipient 2024 Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation
- 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
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