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The Remote Presence Development Counsellor is responsible for developing service relationships with communities in central and northern Saskatchewan. Through these relationships, additional responsibilities include providing remote presence counselling, fostering linkages to our in-house suite of programs, as well as coordinating the implementation of a remote presence service delivery protocol within our organization.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Registered Clinical Counsellor
- Membership with the Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association
- Membership with a provincial association for marriage and family therapy
Additional Skills
- Perform administrative tasks
- Use computer applications
Specific Skills
- Provide public education
- Provide consultation services to government and other organizations
- Prepare case histories
- Assess clients' problems
- Knowledge of 12 step philosophy
- Liaise with communities
- Interview clients
- Follow up results of counselling programs and clients' adjustment
- Evaluate clients' progress in resolving identified problems and movement towards defined objectives
- Evaluate effectiveness of counselling programs and interventions
- Develop and implement counselling and intervention programs to assist clients in determining goals and means of attaining them
- Counsel clients and provide psychotherapy
Work Setting
- Family therapy centres
- Health care facility
- Counselling centres
- Social service agency
Client Population
- Families
- Aboriginal groups
- Culturally diverse groups
- Young offenders
- Persons with intellectual disabilities
- Persons with mental health disabilities
- Females
- Males
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Couples
- Children
Work Location Information
- Urban area
- Various locations
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Large caseload
Security and Safety
- Criminal record check (abstract)
Area of Counselling Specialization
- Stress management
- Family and marriage
- Crisis intervention
- Conflict resolution
- Behaviour disorders
- Bereavement
- Assertiveness training
- Anxiety/panic
- Cross cultural issues
- Childhood and adolescent issues
- Substance abuse
- Personal growth and self-development
- Life transitions
- Depression
- Anger management