Bilingual Mental Health Counsellor

4 months ago

Ottawa, Canada Ontario Partners in Health Full time

**Position Title**: Bilingual Mental Health Counsellor

**Division**: ByWard Family Health Team

**Job Status**: Full-Time 1 Year Contract

**Job Reports To**: Executive Director

**Hourly Rate**: $32.17 - $39.17 ($62,731 - $76,381)

**Mental Health Counsellor (Full-Time 1 Year Contract)**

ByWard Family Health (BWFHT), formerly University of Ottawa Health Services (UOHS), offers a comprehensive range of services to the general public. We are committed to delivering timely, quality, and collaborative assessment, treatment, and health promotion, in a supportive and caring environment that is open and transparent to social, ethnic, and income factors.

**Job Summary**

The primary focus for the Mental Health Counsellor will be the provision of counselling, advocacy and support services for patients and their families.

**Essential Responsibilities**

As a team member of the ByWard Family Health Team, you will:

- Use best practices and innovative approaches to provide client-centered services including assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation services maintaining an average workload of 5-6 patients/day;
- Provide crisis intervention and liaison with other service providers to support patient stability and recovery;
- Provide ongoing evaluation and revision of patient’s progress/goals;
- Provide direct assistance with symptom management, employment, social relations and/or activities of daily living;
- Areas of competency in this role include depression, trauma, anxiety disorders, and cognitive behaviour techniques, parenting problems, substance abuse and other social problems.
- Works collaboratively with the patients’ primary care provider and other members of the health care team to address the patients’ mental health and overall health care needs.

**Essential Qualifications**
- Master’s degree in counselling or relevant post graduate studies in counselling
- Bilingual essential (French and English)
- Registered member in good standing with the professional association
- Demonstrated in depth knowledge of mental health symptoms, issues, psychotropic medications, and associated side effects
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills in order to effectively engage community services and individuals, increasing awareness of services and establishes rapport with persons living with serious mental illness
- Ability to work in a computerized environment
- Ability to work effectively either in person or remotely
- A minimum of 2-years experience providing mental health services in a community or primary health care setting preferably as a mental health case manager

**Closing Date**: Until this role has been filled

We thank all applicants for applying; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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