What’s Up Walk-in and Brief Counsellor

3 weeks ago


Scarborough, Canada YouthLink Full time

February 5, 2024 Job Posting #1408
- **YouthLink believes in the potential of every youth. We are dedicated to providing them with the support, guidance and opportunities they need to make positive life choices. We provide youth with brief and ongoing counselling, in-home wraparound support, shelter, housing, educational support, and safe drop-in spaces. **_**YouthLink works towards equitable outcomes for youth in our community and, as such, is committed to equity-based hiring practices.**_

**YouthLink Benefits are Top of Class**
- Competitive pay
- Health & dental coverage for you and your family with 100% premium cost paid by employer.
- Annual vacation with pay at 1.66 working days for each calendar month to a maximum of **20** working days per year.
- **5** ‘authorized absence’ days for family illness or emergency circumstances that prohibit employees from reporting to work.
- **3 **paid agency days every calendar year after 3 calendar months’ service.
- Maternity / parental /adoption leave top-up payments (to top-up Canadian government unemployment benefit payments).
- 100% premium cost for long-term disability coverage paid by employee.
- Eligibility to participate in pension plan after 2 years of continuous service with generous matching contribution from employer.

**What’s Up Walk-In and Brief Counsellor**

**(2 Vacant Positions)**

**(Permanent Full-Time, 35 hours/week)**

**Bargaining Unit Position**

This position is responsible for providing brief counselling for individuals and families. It will also involve providing some case management, psycho-education, advocacy, and consultation to support youth and their families or caregivers presenting with mental health, emotional or behavioural issues. YouthLink serves youth ages 12-24 and their families through our What’s Up Walk-In Clinic and other brief services. This position will include carrying a small brief therapy client caseload.

**Highlights of Your Role**
- Provides brief counselling sessions to individual youth and or their caregivers utilizing a Brief Solution Focused framework and/or Narrative Therapy approaches.
- Researches and coordinates external services; works with multidisciplinary professionals, such as child protection, youth justice and the broader Youthlink team.
- Makes appropriate referral recommendations if further services are needed in collaboration with clients.
- When providing service to a client that presents with suicidal or homicidal ideation, counsellor completes a full suicide assessment, creates a safety plan and disseminates to client and parents, if appropriate; making immediate referrals if warranted, supporting the client through the process of accessing hospital and/or psychiatric services in the moment.
- Prepares documents and other resources for clients and disseminates appropriately.
- Documents clinical case notes to capture the contents and recommendations of each counselling session, ideally in a contemporaneous fashion.
- Completes referral process, organizes, attends and case manages Tele-Mental Health appointments with Sick Kids for those youth that require a psychiatric assessment and are between the ages of 0-18.
- Reports to appropriate person or body any incidents that may jeopardize client or staff safety.
- Develops professionally through clinical supervision, team meetings, case consultations, and external training events.
- Increases awareness of Youthlink by attending community events.
- Actively contributes to the Agency’s Strategic Plan by participating in initiatives and committees to support the overall Plan.
- Takes all reasonable and necessary precautions to protect his or her own health and safety and that of co-workers by complying with and demonstrating knowledge of the policies, procedures and safe practices established by YouthLink.
- Any other duties as assigned.
- Actively contributes to the Agency’s Strategic Plan by participating in initiatives and committees to support the overall Plan.
- Takes all reasonable and necessary precautions to protect his or her own health and safety and that of co-workers by complying and demonstrating knowledge of the policies, procedures and safe practices established by YouthLink.
- Any other duties as assigned.

**Supports Organization’s Strategy**:
Actively contributes to the Agency’s Strategic Plan by participating in initiatives and committees to support the overall Plan.

Takes all reasonable and necessary precautions to protect his or her own health and safety and that of co-workers by complying and demonstrating knowledge of the policies, procedures and safe practices established by YouthLink

**Highlights of What You Bring**
:

- Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology, Mental Health Counselling, Social Work or other directly related discipline.
- Full member in good standing with a relevant governing body, including RP (qualifying); having passed the RP exam is an asset.
- Knowledge of a variety of treatmen



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