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Personal Counsellor/mental Health Worker

1 month ago

Mississauga, Canada University of Toronto Full time

**Date Posted**:02/07/2023
**Req ID**: 29627
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: UTM: Health & Counselling Ctr.
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00050620

**Description**:
**About us**:
The university’s second largest division, U of T Mississauga has 17 academic departments and offers 156 programs in 92 areas of study. Home to approximately 15,000 students and over 1,000 faculty and staff, the campus houses the Mississauga Academy of Medicine, Centre for Medicinal Chemistry and Institute for Management and Innovation. With its distinctive interdisciplinary programs such as forensic sciences and biomedical communications, U of T Mississauga offers a broad array of continuing education programs and professional masters programs. Established in 1967, the campus features award-winning architecture, robust community partnerships and a dynamic student environment set amongst 225 acres along the Credit River in Mississauga.

The Health & Counselling Centre (HCC) at UTM is a multi-disciplinary health clinic that provides student-friendly medical care, mental health counselling, and health education and promotion programs and services to a diverse student population of undergraduate and graduate students.

The HCC strives to empower students to make healthier, evidence-based choices to support their growth and development, assists students in their pursuit of academic success, and promotes adoption of positive coping skills to foster greater resiliency in the pursuit of current and future goals. The HCC works closely with other departments across the University with the goal of ensuring students have timely access to quality medical and mental health supports.

**Your opportunity**:
Under general direction of the Lead Counsellor, Health & Counselling Centre, the incumbent is responsible for providing counselling and short term psychotherapy to undergraduate and graduate students of diverse ages, economic levels and cultural backgrounds who are experiencing emotional and psychological difficulties (e.g., family problems, interpersonal conflicts, anxiety, low self-esteem) using individual, couple, or group counselling methods. The incumbent must assess and refer, as appropriate, to community resources and available supports for students; act as a resource for other student service professionals and make referrals to other areas/resources within UTM (i.e. Accessibility Services, academic advising, career counselling, Academic Skills Centre), the University and the community; and participate in Orientation and other outreach programs as required. The incumbent will also assist students to select options for their mental health care using the Stepped Care 2.0 model.

The incumbent will primarily be providing counselling services within the HCC. There may also be opportunity to provide counselling services while on location within otherdepartments on campus. The incumbent will be responsible for working independently on outreach initiatives specific to the student populations in these departments to increase access to supports on and off campus, and assist with the transition to student life at UTM, as well as within academic departments on campus. There will be opportunities to deliver information on wellness and resiliency through webinars and workshops, and to occasionally participate in health promotion activities delivered by the HCC.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy for students and making referrals to appropriate resources on and off campus (e.g., physicians, academic advisors, accessibility advisors, financial aid advisors, career advisors, etc)
- Providing initial clinical support and/or counselling to distressed students in crisis and making referrals to appropriate resources
- Screening students to determine suitability for short-term counselling
- Assessing the mental health of clients
- Developing components of treatment plans based on appropriate therapeutic approaches
- Updating and maintaining patient records
- Developing psychotherapeutically-appropriate materials for group counselling and intake procedures for clients

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Master's Degree in social work or counselling/psychotherapy or acceptable combination of equivalent experience. Must be a current, fully independent registered member in good standing, within a Regulated Health Profession.
- Minimum five years of clinical experience, including experience in an outpatient or Community setting
- Experience with the young adult population (17-25 year olds) is required
- Prior experience with crisis counselling, and with drop-in or same-day counselling
- Prior experience providing single-session therapy
- Experience and demonstrated ability to deliver training and workshops to staff and students on mental health related topics
- Prior training and focus of practice in working with individuals who have experie

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