Counsellor

Position Information

**Position Number**
- S00866**Position Title**
- Counsellor**Division/Portfolio**
- Student Services**Department/Program**
- Counselling**Location**
- Kelowna**Other Flexible Work Options**

**Your Opportunity**
- A counsellor should be qualified to provide personal, academic success, and career counselling. The professional roles and responsibilities of a non-instructional faculty member include an awareness of current scholarship and continuing mastery in one’s field, professional duties, professional development, and service. In addition, duties and responsibilities may include scholarly activity.**Functions and Duties**
- 1. Workload assignments may include clinical practice, teaching, scholarship and community service.
- 2. The professional duties of a counsellor may include all or any of the following: personal, career and academic success counselling services; response to student crises and emergencies; case consultation; testing and psycho-educational assessment; development, delivery and evaluation of student success courses and workshops; practicum and internship supervision; community and professional education; consultation for and liaison with Okanagan College departments, faculty and staff, as well as community representatives and groups; administrative duties; regional campus duties that are congruent with the counselling discipline; and other ancillary counselling and advisory functions.
**Education and Experience**
- The minimum qualification is a Master’s degree, or equivalent in a counselling or related discipline with supervised clinical experience at the graduate level.
- Registration or eligibility for registration with degree-appropriate governing or legal body is required (e.g. BCACC, CCPA, BC College of Social Workers, BC College of Psychologists).
- Clinical counselling experience in a post-secondary environment is preferred. Experience may also include independent, post-secondary or secondary school work directly related to the duty assignment. An active profile in scholarship, research and creative activity is preferred.**Skills and Abilities**
- Demonstrated competency in the following areas:
- individual and group counselling
- career, academic success, and personal counselling
- crisis intervention work
- student success programming and workshop delivery
- outreach and referral
- mediation
- student advocacy
- working in a computerized environment

**Preferred Qualifications**

**Desired Start Date**
- 08/01/2023**Position End Date (if temporary)**

**Schedule**
- Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week.**Annual Salary/Hourly Rate**Appointment Type**
- Faculty - Full-time Continuing**Special Instructions to Applicants**

**Employee Group**
- Faculty