Women's Counsellor

2 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Battered Women's Support Services Full time

**Job Title**:Women’s Counsellor (Temporary two-month position)

**Reports to**:Director of Direct Services and Clinical Practice

**Working Conditions**:The position is part-time (32 hours/week). Work is accomplished in person at an unpublished location in Vancouver, BC.

**Organizational Overview**

Established in 1979, BWSS - Battered Women’s Support Services takes action to end gender-based violence through community-based interventions, support services, legal and systemic advocacy, education and training, violence prevention and research and policy.

**Job Highlight**

Utilize your decolonial, intersectional feminist, and anti-oppression perspectives to provide trauma-informed counselling for girls, women, and femmes coping with the impacts of violence and abuse through individual and group counselling sessions while collaborating with an incredible interdisciplinary team of counsellors.

**Job Summary**

As a Women's Counselor, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the healing and freedom from violence of all girls, women, femmes, and transfeminine survivors through individual and group counselling sessions.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Conduct several counselling sessions daily, utilizing your strong knowledge and skills to assist girls, women, and femmes dealing with complex trauma.
- Conduct assessments and determine program suitability.
- Develop and implement counselling plans and goals necessary to meet survivors' needs. Monitor and evaluate progress and adjust goals accordingly for each individual counselling file.
- Engage in regular individual and group clinical supervision sessions with your supervisor.
- Maintain consistent file management, including the maintenance of information, forms related to privacy and confidentiality, progress notes, and other items related to file management.
- Ensure accurate and timely records of activities, file notes, and services, logging events and progress.
- Provide crisis intervention as required.
- Collaborate with other BWSS programs and service when necessary to provide a holistic support plan.
- Conduct referrals and/or advocate with other community service providers as necessary.
- Participate in staff meetings, job evaluations, and other Agency-related forms of supervision and participation as required.
- Maintain statistics and record-keeping that adhere to the Provincial Government Stopping the Violence Counselling contract, in compliance with all legal and contractual obligations undertaken by the Society.
- Participate in BWSS resource development activities as defined by the Resource Development Committee, Manager of Development, and/or Executive Director.
- Perform other tasks as required by your supervisor.

**Qualifications**
- Minimum of two years of recent supervised adult survivor counselling experience.
- Analysis, knowledge, and training in trauma-informed counselling.
- Knowledge of the impacts of structural inequalities that oppress girls, women, and femmes.
- Demonstrated understanding of complex trauma presentations, expertise, and skills necessary to assist girls, women, and femmes dealing with the long-lasting effects of trauma.
- Demonstrated experience in women's organizations and nonprofit society environments.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including verbal and written communication skills, organizational abilities, and advocacy skills.
- Ability to maintain appropriate files and statistics.
- Demonstrated capacity to prioritize workload with excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Eagerness and creativity to create and co-facilitate specialized counselling groups, along with demonstrated group facilitation skills.
- Experience supervising practicum students.
- Satisfactory criminal record checks.
- The ability to speak another language is an asset.

**Classification**
- Part-time temporary two-month position with the possibility of an extension.
- Schedule: Wednesday to Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm.
- Hourly rate: $33.83.
- This position requires union membership.

Preferential and limited hiring assist BWSS in achieving diverse and equitable representation in the workplace, and in recruiting employees whose identities enrich the ways in which we accomplish our mission and serve the community. As a result, preference will be given to Indigenous women, Black women, racialized women, women who are disabled, femmes, transfeminine individuals, and women from other equity-seeking groups.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: From $33.83 per hour

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Vancouver, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

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