Job Order Detail

Description

Position #: 182965

Expected Start Date: January 05, 2026

Union: HSAS

Facility: Nurses Alumni Wing

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: Mental Health Community Clinics&Programs - Youth Community Counselling

Type: Full-time regular

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days

Hours of Work: shifts of 224 hours per 6 weeks

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: Yes

Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Addictions Counsellor - Degree $34.509 to $42.199

Travel Required: Yes

Job Description: Under the direction of the Manager of the Youth Mental Health and Addictions team, and the Youth Addictions Supervisor, the Clinical Addictions Counsellor Youth provides ongoing assessment, counselling, case management, to youth struggling with substance use and their families. In addition the Clinical Addictions Counsellor Youth identifies and treats the effects of substance use of the youth and the family system as a whole. Using the skills and knowledge required for this position, the counsellor works with youth and parents to provide comprehensive evidence based treatment plan. The Youth Addictions Counsellor provides individual, group and family parent counselling. "Preference for this position will be given to HSAS members in accordance with the terms and conditions of the SAHO/HSAS Collective Agreement"

Human Resources Exemption: No

Experience
- Supervised clinical practicum experience with youth/families
Education
- Degree in Addiction Counseling
Memberships
- Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation (CACCF)
Competencies
- Basic - Assessment skills
- Basic - Counseling skills
- Basic - Facilitation skills
Knowledge and Abilities
- Knowledge in evidence-informed counselling to clients dealing with substance use
- Ability to treat effects of substance use on an adolescent and family unit
- Ability to facilitate individual and group counselling with yout...
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