counsellor, job
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Counsellor
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June 27, 2024
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Family Service Toronto
Job details
*Grow with us! *
Family Service Toronto (FST) helps people face a wide variety of life challenges.? For over 100 years, we have worked with individuals and families destabilized by precarious mental health and/or socioeconomic circumstances, to achieve greater resilience and stability in more just and supportive communities. We achieve this through our direct service work of intervention and prevention which includes counselling, peer support and education; knowledge building; and system-level work including social action, advocacy, community building and working with partners to strengthen the sector.
We?re proud of our people and culture! We are constantly evolving what we do and how we do it. Our work is grounded in the lived experience of the clients and the community. We celebrate diversity, equity, inclusion, and excellence. We are agile, learning and always willing to try new things.
*The Opportunity! *
FST Client Services and Partnerships, Counselling Service provides trauma informed and trauma specific mental health counselling to a diverse range of people facing a variety of issues. This is a unique opportunity to work as part of the Counselling Service and to also provide counselling to clients referred directly by the Toronto Community Crisis Service (TCCS). TCCS provides an alternative to police enforcement, creating a community-based, client centred, trauma-informed response to mental health crisis calls and wellness checks. FST is partnering with Gerstein Centre, one of four agencies providing this program. The counsellor will provide time limited, goal-focused strengths based anti-oppressive psychotherapy to clients who have accessed TCCS in a mental health crisis. Along with brief psychotherapy, the counsellor will also work with the Counselling team carrying a case load of clients accessing the Counselling Service This counsellor will be part of an outstanding team using a range of therapeutic modalities, participating in clinical consultations and a shared commitment to professional development.
*Ready to make that move? Here?s what?s in it for you:*
· Thrive in trust-based culture and have fun, working with an amazing, diverse group of driven, talented people.
· Be part of a workplace incorporating trauma informed care into all aspects of service delivery, building on the principles of knowledge-building and resiliency.
· Get on-the-job training and development.
· Make a significant impact on our clients and community.
· This a part-time permanent position offers flexibility, generous paid leave and comes with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
*What we are looking for: *
*Counselling expertise: *
· Provide culturally competent, trauma informed and evidence-based interventions, including:
o Single session and short-term therapies
o Anti-oppressive mental health counselling
o Trauma specific counselling
· Provide counselling to clients who have recently experienced a mental health crisis
· Provide services to clients from diverse ethno-cultural communities, diverse sexual orientation and gender identities, and to clients who are marginalized by a range of systemic issues
· Experience and/or knowledge of working with people facing an array of challenges, including mental and physical health issues, impacts of trauma and oppression, involuntary interaction with emergency services such as police and hospitals.
*Key Qualifications:*
· M.S.W., M.A. or M.Ed., Foreign credentials or BSW and relevant experience are valued.
· Applicants must be registered and in good standing with the College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers or the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.
· Demonstrated clinical training, experience, and competence in integrating at least two clinical modalities into practice (e.g. Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, DBT, CBT, EMDR, Sensorimotor psychotherapy).
· Demonstrated creativity, flexibility, and excellence in therapeutic en
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LocationToronto, ON
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Salary$31.46 to $38.74HOUR hourly
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Terms of employment
Permanent employmentPart time
- Start date
Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies
1 vacancy
- Source
indeed.com
#9340325353
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