Youth and Family Counsellor, Mental Health Program

3 months ago

Vancouver, Canada PHSA Full time

**Youth and Family Counsellor, Mental Health Program Standard, Mental Health Resource Team**

BC Children’s Mental Health

Vancouver, BC

**Do you have the ability to support patients ages 5-17 with self-regulation and daily living activities? Are you able to coach parents/caregivers with positive behavioural support skills? Do you have experience facilitating child or adolescent groups? Acting as a youth care worker, BC Children's Hospital is seeking a Youth & Family Counsellor to support patients on the Child Psychiatry Unit with program and group facilitation.**

The Youth and Family Counsellor (YFC) reports operationally to the Clinical Nurse Coordinator at BC Children's Hospital Mental Health and is responsible for maintaining a physically and emotionally safe therapeutic milieu, developing and facilitating groups, and providing activities and care appropriate to the child’s/youth’s stage of development. In a hospital based psychiatric assessment and treatment program, the Youth and Family Counsellor works collaboratively as part of an interprofessional team within an evidence based Trauma Informed model of care, to support all aspects of therapeutic care of patients with behavioural, emotional, and psychiatric problems and their families/caregivers. The Youth and Family Counsellor provides supportive counselling, and psychosocial assessment, including working with families/caregivers in accordance with established standards, policies and procedures. Drives patients to designated locations by operating the Centre’s vehicle.

**Please indicate on your cover letter why you are interested in joining our team at BC Children's Mental Health Check out our video HERE**

**What you’ll do**
- Support children and youth in lifespan development activities in the context of their psychiatric disorder, through supportive counselling, strategic interventions, psychosocial development, and guidance in activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing and therapeutic meal support.
- Participate and contribute to patient care plan development, treatment strategies and intervention development with the assigned primary nurse and the interprofessional team by methods such as reviewing patient progress, discussing potential changes with team, and adjusting care strategies accordingly. Implement treatment team strategies and interventions as approved by the primary nurse and interprofessional team.
- Participate in program development with consideration to patient needs and plan, initiate, implement and facilitate therapeutic and recreational group programming in a manner that fosters socialization skills, play skills, self-regulation and continued growth and development in children/youth as assigned
- In collaboration with inter-professional team members provides support and continual assessment and evaluation to adapt individual and group programming to meet changes in the milieu and patient dynamics as assigned. Communicate this assessment to the primary nurse and/or interprofessional team using appropriate methods including written documentation as per agency standards.
- Enhance family/caregivers capacity for relational development by methods of child/parent dyad interventions and psychoeducational groups.
- Assist in community integration and social skills development by acting as a role model to organize and actively participate in activities (such as recreational outings to the gym, park, and swimming facilities), driving the agency vehicle as required, and others activities as assigned.
- Drive patients to designated locations as scheduled by operating the Centre’s passenger van. Assist clients with embarking and disembarking the vehicle. Conduct inspections of vehicle by checking oil, gas and fluid levels, tire condition and ensuring that lights and signals are functioning; clean interior and exterior of vehicle after use; and maintain records of distances travelled, gas expenditures and inspections. Recommend vehicle and equipment repairs as required.

**What you bring**

Qualifications
- Baccalaureate in Child and Youth Care, or a Baccalaureate of Arts with a Major in Psychology or Clinical Counselling, that includes course content relevant to Child and Youth Mental Health such as Infant, Child, and Adolescent Development, Fundamentals of Clinical Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, and Group and Family Processes.
- Two (2) years’ recent related experience working in a child and youth setting.
- Group planning and facilitation for children with Mental Health challenges and/or developmental difficulties.
- Valid Class 4 driver’s license.
- Current CPR certification.

Skills & Knowledge
- Broad knowledge of the normal growth and development of children and youth
- Basic knowledge of mental health disorders in children and youth.
- Broad knowledge of Trauma Informed Care including Collaborative Problem Solving.
- Broad Knowledge of Attachment and Self Regulation Theory and Strategies.
- Broad know

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