Peace Counsellor

**Posting - 28/11/2024**

**Position**:PEACE Counsellor/ Facilitator permanent part time **- 28 hours/week

PEACE Program (workshop & group facilitation are a requirement of this position).

**Department**:Community Counselling Centre

**Closing date -**Open until filled

**Department**:Programs - Youth, Children and Caregiver Counseling Centre

**Grid Level**:13P $37.18- $48.04

**Work Location**: In person

**Required**:

- Masters or Bachelor's degree in a related human/social service field from a university of recognized standing or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience working with children
- 2 + years of counselling experience with children is required.
- Group facilitation experience is required.

**Position Summary**:
**The PEACE Program workers** provide psycho-educational community-based workshops, groups and 1-to
- l psycho-educational services and advocacy support to children and youth between the ages of 3 and 18 who have witnessed abuse, threats, or violence; these children/youth are the _primary _clients of the PEACE program; work undertaken with parent/guardians is designed to support a healthy relationship wherein the child/youth flourishes.

Further, to support the children and youth, the program encapsulates facilitated support, strategies, psycho-education workshops and experiential/ positive parenting skills for guardians of the children to strengthen attachment between child and parent and to develop strategies to support healthy connections and behaviors.

Facilitation /Counselling services provided are **not **clinical therapy.

**Reports to**:Program Manager

Key Responsibilities:

- Responsibilities Include: Primary focus is Group & Workshop Work, Individual Work, Agency work, and Community work designed to support skill building using techniques such as active listening, conflict resolution, basic group counseling, and basic psycho-educational group methods to help children understand and resolve identified problems, needs and risks &/or provide preventative education on domestic &/or sexual violence.
- Develop and implement workshops to strengthen families by breaking the cycle of abuse. Collaborates with co-facilitator(s) in conducting groups for children, youth &/or their caregivers.
- Uses a variety of techniques to assist the child to set and obtain developmentally appropriate goals during sessions, paying attention to individual child's unique needs and outcomes.
- Identify the support needs of the child while helping strengthen the child/caregiver relationship by modeling strategies and skills for greater connection and communication.
- Provides assessment services to gather relevant service information. Identifies and assesses the immediate emotional/behavioral issues that have led the client to seek or be referred to

services. Assesses the safety of clients and supports them in identifying and reducing safety risks.
- Develops and conducts psycho-educational support groups/workshops for children, youth & parents.
- Conducts individual support sessions with the child (&/or caregiver) using techniques such as active listening, conflict resolution, play therapy, and psychoeducation as needed.
- Provides parenting support through modeling skills and techniques for enhanced connection and greater communication.
- Outlines services provided by the program and/or agency. Provides information on and referral to other community service providers resources, and professionals for children &/or their caregivers as required.
- Maintains accurate records, statistics and reports to the manager as required and prepares reports as needed.
- Maintains current knowledge of issues and resources related to witnessing violence or abuse, and on prevention of violence and abuse to children. Provides interactive and engaging psycho-educational presentation and awareness activities about services and issues related to these issues.
- Participates in (or initiates) case conferenced, integrated case management with other professional as required. Engages in individual and group supervision sessions with superior and/or clinical supervisor, as required.
- Attends and proactively participates in staff meetings and other agency meetings as required.
- Follows current TCT Policies and Procedures, including best practice, and provides reports to the manager as needed. Reports any difficulties to the manager quickly.
- Promotes the program to the community through such things as: school collaborations, intra-agency collaborations; community collaborations, distribution of community posters, brochures, announcements, and presentations.
- Participates in professional development activities in order to stay current in interactive facilitation techniques, as applied to the field of trauma-informed counselling, treatment, and interventions for children of all ages.
- Participates in various processes necessary to carry out and achieve the society's mandate, such as, but not limited