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PARTNERS Family Services is accepting applications for the position of Mental Health Counsellor. PARTNERS staff provide a safe, confidential and welcoming environment that assists individuals and families to meet their immediate and on going needs. There is 1 full time permanent position available:
Scope of practice includes crisis intervention, rapid access counselling, clinical counselling, program facilitation, client advocacy and systems navigation.
Travel within a 100km radius of Humboldt may be required on occasion.
Requirements:
- BSW, BISW, OR current registration with a Canadian counselling body such as CCPA, CCPC, etc.
- Competent in a variety of counselling modalities including solution focused and brief therapy
- Experience working with youth and adults experiencing moderate mental health challenges including anxiety and depression and other mood disorder
-Experience collaborating and with internal and external stakeholders to ensure coordination of services to clients
- Experience working with community groups, volunteers and agencies
- Strong team work capacity, highly organized, and capable of managing varied demands
- Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and professional demeanor
- Excellent writing skills, time management, communication and file management skills
- Computer competencies
- Certified in First Aid, CPR, ASIST and NVCI
- Use of personal vehicle including 2mil in liability insurance
-Clear Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector screening
Interviews to commence ASAP. Positions to commence ASAP.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- 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
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- Provincial certificate of registration
- Membership in a provincial association of social workers
Additional Skills
- Use computer applications
- Perform administrative tasks
Specific Skills
- Act as an advocate for client groups in the community
- Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team working with a client group
- Refer clients to agencies that provide financial assistance, legal aid, housing, medical treatment and other services
- Provide public education and consultation regarding counselling services, issues and methods
- Provide counsel and therapy to help clients resolve social and personal problems
- Plan programs of assistance for clients
- Lobby for solutions to problems affecting client groups
- Interview clients to assess their situation and determine the types of services required and eligibility
- Investigate cases of child abuse or neglect and take authorized protective action when necessary
- Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and social programs
- Develop prevention and intervention programs to meet community needs
- Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
- Apply for social program funding
Work Setting
- Social and family service agency
- Community service organization
- Clinic
Client Population
- Adolescents
- Adult
- Social assistance recipient
- Psychiatric
- Personal or social adjustment difficulty
- Minority group
- Mentally impaired
- Male
- Female
- Elderly
- Child
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