Counsellor

2 days ago

Abbotsford, Canada Canuck Place Children's Hospice Full time

**Counsellor**

**Location**:Abbotsford hospice

**Reporting to**: Manager, Counselling Services

**Job status**:Permanent Part-time to Full-time 0.8 FTE - 1.0 FTE (60-75 hours bi-weekly)

**Compensation**:Alignment of HEABC - HSP Grid 12 ($41.01 to $51.27 per hour)

**JOB SUMMARY**

Reporting to the Manager, Counselling Services, the Counsellor is accountable for providing advanced therapeutic clinical counselling and consultative social work services that facilitate changes in coping styles, behaviours, attitudes, feelings and adaptive responses to an adverse life event. The Counsellor is also accountable for conducting comprehensive social and psychosocial assessments; providing advice to children, families, staff and community health professionals regarding applicable community resources in order to facilitate and enhance coping abilities; maintaining records and monitoring counselling services to ensure appropriate services are provided.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Provides comprehensive psychosocial assessments of children and families to identify high risk factors, personal and emotional concerns, areas of coping strengths and areas requiring social work and/or counselling services.
- Provides individual and/or group counselling services, such as adjustment, crises, support and bereavement to children and their families to facilitate changes in coping styles, behaviours, attitudes, feelings and adaptive responses to an adverse life event. Develops and facilitates support groups, as necessary.
- Assesses and interprets social, financial, psychological and family situations to physicians and other members of the care team and provides consultation to staff and community agencies with regard to intervention and discharge plans for children and their families.
- Educates and informs children and their families on issues related to understanding and following medical recommendations to assist in alleviating stress and anxiety resulting from illness and disability.
- Collaborates with physicians and other members of the interdisciplinary care team by participating in interdisciplinary planning and evaluation of care, care conferences and rounds; reports observations, problems and changes in children’s and families’ condition, provides input from a social work/counselling perspective on a variety of care issues to ensure proper and effective treatment of the child and family members.
- Provides advice to children, families, staff and community health professionals regarding applicable community resources and ways to access these resources in order to facilitate and enhance coping abilities. Liaises with social agencies and community resources and makes referrals to provide ongoing support to children and families.
- Maintains client records by documenting client assessments, charting client information, preparing progress notes and reports in accordance with established standards, policies and procedures.
- Keeps up-to-date on social work and/or counselling developments by reviewing literature in specialty area, consulting with clinical and community experts within the field and participating in professional development activities.
- Follows policies, procedures and standards of excellence to ensure a safe environment for children and families, staff and volunteers.
- Contributes to the CPCH culture by understanding and supporting our Mission and Vision and actively demonstrating our Values.
- In accordance with the strategic directions of CPCH, patient safety is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at CPCH, and as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.
- Protects the health, wellness and safety of self and others by complying with applicable regulations and standards, safe work practices and procedures established by CPCH. Employees must report any health hazards and unsafe conditions to their supervisor for corrective action.
- Assumes other related responsibilities, as assigned.

**EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE**

Master’s Degree in Counselling or Social Work or a directly related field, supplemented with at least 1-2 years of recent related counselling and assessment experience in palliative care, including grief and bereavement, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Current registration with the British Columbia College of Social Workers or the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**What you bring to the role**:

- Knowledge of systems theory.
- Knowledge of family, group and change therapy.
- Knowledge of counseling skills and clinical practice models.
- Knowledge of clinical social work and mental health counselling principles, methods, procedures and standards.
- Knowledge of crisis intervention techniques.
- Knowledge of psychodynamics of children and adolescents and their treatment strategies.
- Knowledge of community health and social care system an

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