Pchad - Weekend Child and Youth Care Counsellor

2 months ago

Calgary, Canada Hull Services Full time

Hull Services has an organizational commitment to pursuing truth and reconciliation, decolonization and anti-oppression._

**About Us**:
Hull Services has long had a reputation for providing leading edge child, youth, and family mental health services. We work with children, youth and families who have experienced mental health struggles, behavioural problems, developmental delay, neglect, abuse and trauma. Hull offers them an opportunity to seek well-being and happiness, with a focus on mental health. Hull’s vision is for resilient young people and families to thrive within communities that support their mental health and well-being. Hull’s programs and services include prevention and early intervention, family-based treatment, school-based services, community group care, campus-based care, adult services and education and training. Located in Calgary, we have been serving Alberta’s young people and families for 60 years, and support over 8,000 young people and families each year.

**The Program**:
PChAD provides a confined court-ordered and monitored service to youth abusing or addicted to drugs and alcohol. PChAD is a partnership program with Recovery Alberta (formerly Alberta Health Services) working in a 10 to 15 day, secure, medically supported detox setting.

**The Position**:
We are looking for a** regular, full-time weekend Child and Youth Care Counsellor.** The schedule for this position is Saturday and Sunday, 14 hours a day between 7:00a.m. and 11:00p.m. with occasional weekday shifts as needed to meet full-time hour requirements.

Reporting to the Program Coordinator, the Child and Youth Care Counsellor is a member of the interdisciplinary team which assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the treatment program(s) for a given person served. The Counsellor participates fully in all facets of program life with the persons served (instrumental, clinical, developmental), and is responsible for their daily care, treatment, nurturance, supervision, health and discipline. The role is extensive and includes counselling, teaching and training, as well as recording and reporting.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Work with persons served under 18 yrs. old, experiencing physical and emotional withdrawal symptoms from the effects of substances.
- Monitor and work directly with the person served in all aspects of their life within a therapeutic milieu.
- Participating in structured recreational and therapeutic group activities related to drug use and healthy living.
- Supervise, organize and implement daily living activities and see these as opportunities for education and therapeutic intervention.
- Engage persons served in individual and group activities of a recreational and treatment focused nature.
- In dealing with persons served, parents/guardians, co-workers, other professionals and the public, demonstrate appropriate conduct in terms of behaviour, appearance, and presentation, and conform to Agency and partnership expectations with regard to confidentiality.
- Attend to team membership responsibilities in terms of participation, communication, and positive attitude
- Effective written and verbal communication
- Demonstrates initiative, self-starter
- Model socially acceptable values, i.e., integrity, fairness, respect, self-care, accountability

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- Degree or Diploma in Human Services or Social Sciences
- Experience in Therapeutic Campus-Based Care treatment (preferred)
- Excellent engagement, behavior management, assessment and counseling experience with high-risk youth and their families
- Strong understanding of substance use and mental health and its impact on youth and families; knowledge of community resources
- Ability to learn relevant theories, skills, and practices as required for providing interventions for persons accessing the program
- A high level of personal maturity and responsibility, and the ability to relate and work effectively with co-workers as a member of the treatment team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Cross cultural competence; knowledge of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the recommendations, goals and activities of the commission.
- A clear police check, which includes a vulnerable sector search, is required (or is in process of being completed) prior to employment
- Clear Child Intervention Record Check
- Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license and ability to drive Agency vehicles is preferred (min. 3 years driving experience with a class 5/GDL class 5 license).
- Completion of ASIST, First Aid, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention and Certification with CYCAA would be considered an asset

**To Apply**:
**Salary Range: $47,544 - $59,976**
- At Hull, one of our core values is Inclusion and we seek to understand people’s lived experience, holding a deep respect for their unique backgrounds, ethnicities, abilities, cultures and identities. It is our desire to humbly build trust and mutual re

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