Concurrent Disorder Counsellor Dasw- 1 Masters
5 months ago
**Concurrent Disorder Counsellor**
BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
Port Coquitlam, BC
**What you’ll do**
- Provide trauma-informed individualized therapeutic counseling services, including crisis intervention and stabilization, in alignment with evidence-based practice. Include comprehensive assessment, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, motivational interviewing and therapy, social skills training, and relapse prevention.
- Facilitate psycho-education and process-oriented group therapy with an assigned number of clients using methods such as reviewing learning needs, assisting with understanding of illness(es), teaching containment skills, relapse prevention, and coping strategies. Suggest positive behavior modifications, encourage socialization, social skill development, and behavioral modeling. Provide education regarding health care for immune-compromised and disadvantaged clients to maintain physical well-being. Support patients and their families to take responsibility for their health through education, collaboration, and goal setting.
- Participate in the development and implementation of individualized treatment plans by methods such as working with clients to develop their goals for treatment and the criteria to measure progress towards these goals. Collect data from these criteria and meet with clients on a regular basis to review progress. Evaluate the treatment plan as required.
- Perform enrollment to programs according to established protocols by methods such as working with the interprofessional team and BC Corrections staff to identify appropriate clients for interventions. Prepare discharge planning information and resources that will assist clients in their ongoing recovery and treatment. Meet with clients and referring/after-care agencies to gather information. Liaise with referring/after-care agencies (community clinics, professionals, private practitioners) to facilitate treatment planning and discharge care.
- Act as an advocate for clients during inter-professional team meetings to evaluate and change the treatment plan. Complete forms relevant to ongoing and aftercare planning and gather information from substance use and mental health resources. Refer clients to other services as required to assist clients in reaching their treatment goals.
- Monitor systems that ensure the safety of clients, including substance use, communication by methods such as requesting urine samples, alerting other staff regarding client concerns, maintaining awareness of client’s physical and emotional conditions, maintaining safety and security protocols during all programming and 1:1 sessions, and bring any safety issues to the attention of the Health Care Manager or designate.
**What you bring**
**Qualifications**
- Master’s Degree in an allied health discipline (counselling and/or social work) from an approved and accredited post-secondary institution.
- Three (3) years’ of recent related clinical experience, including at least one (1) years’ experience in a concurrent disorder, substance use or mental health program providing therapeutic individual and group counselling.
**Skills and Knowledge**
- Comprehensive knowledge of substance dependence and concurrent disorder.
- Broad knowledge of psychopharmacology (indications and side-effects), trauma informed practice, and chronic disease such as HIV and Hepatitis C.
- Demonstrated skill in and experience with motivational interviewing/therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.
- Broad knowledge of adult education principles, methods and tools.
- Comprehensive knowledge of and experience in group dynamics, individual counselling and family therapy.
- Demonstrated ability to teach, demonstrate and coach clients.
- Awareness of and commitment to learning and understanding the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight Report (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), and other related reports.
- Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
**What we bring**
Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too - offering health, wellness, development programs to support you - at work and at home.
- Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations - offering vast opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
- Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,0
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