Preschool Counsellor

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Agence Ometz is a Jewish human services agency offering social, employment and immigration services to help people fulfill their potential in order to secure a vibrant, growing community where people care for themselves and each other.Our work is guided by our core values of self-sufficiency, inclusivity, human dignity, caring communities and excellence.

**Preschool Counsellor**
14 hours per week

2023-2024 School Year Contract

**JOB SUMMARY**

As a member of a department offering cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary support services to daycares, the Preschool Counsellor will offer consultation, intervention and collaborative leadership to daycares, administrators, educators, families and children with the express goal of enhancing the children’s overall functioning in the CPE.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Utilize a systems approach, conduct psychosocial assessments of children and families around daycare-related issues
- Identify developmental concerns
- Consultation and collaboration with administrators and educators around both individual children and global daycare issues
- Co-ordination of Ometz supplementary services in the daycare
- Serving as a member of the daycare’s children services team
- Fulfilling administrative responsibilities as identified by department (assessments, referrals, and maintenance of dossiers on database)
- Formulate and implement daycare and classroom-based intervention plans
- Participate in group work with children/classes, parents or educators, as needed
- Present and take part in staff development programs with educators
- Facilitate parent workshops
- Serve on agency departmental, interdepartmental, interagency committees

**REQUIREMENTS**
- Master's degree in psychoeducation, social work or a related field
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
- Expertise in early childhood development & family systems
- Good knowledge of Jewish & Orthodox Community
- Bilingual: English and French. We require English communication skills due to the majority of our clientele being English speaking
- Eligibility for appropriate professional order membership

**This position requires the selected applicant to undergo vulnerable sector police check**

**Job Types**: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 10 months
Part-time hours: 14 per week

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person