Counsellor - Pathways to Healthy Families

**Counsellor, Pathways to Healthy Families**

**1 Full-Time Contract Position**

**Classification: Counsellor**

**Job title: Counsellor, Pathways to Healthy Families**
- **Location**:_ Downtown Toronto AND 215 Evans Ave, Etobicoke

**Hours of wor**k: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

**Rate of Pay**: $24.16- $28.26

**Preferred Start Date**: As soon as possible

Jean Tweed is a leading, community-based organization that provides a supportive environment for women with substance use, mental health, and gambling concerns. Recognizing the diversity of women’s experience in today’s society, our programs seek to address a range of issues in a woman’s life that may contribute to substance use and gambling concerns. _As a community-based organization, we are committed to meeting the needs of our clients in the environment and in a way they have come to appreciate from us. We are taking every precaution to ensure the highest protocols of safety are in place to protect the well-being of our staff and those we closely serve._

Diversity and Inclusion is part of our DNA at The Jean Tweed Centre; we’re proud of the efforts we’re making to assemble a team reflective of rich and diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Why you ask? We’re all advocating for our clients’ unique needs from our own unique lenses, and this is fundamental to our success as an organization and our ability to provide meaningful and practical solutions. We serve a community that’s diverse and so it makes sense that we serve our community with a team that is equally as inclusive and diverse.
- **The Jean Tweed Centre is building capacity to transform the level of support for women with substance use, mental health, and gambling concerns.**_

We are a leading, community-based organization that provides a supportive environment for women with substance use, mental health, and gambling concerns. Recognizing the diversity of women’s experience in today’s society, our programs seek to address a range of issues in a woman’s life that may contribute to substance use and gambling concerns. Understanding each woman’s experience within the broader physical, emotional, social, cultural and gender framework, fosters our client-centered approach to health. At Jean Tweed, we share a common belief and passion in our mission. Here at The Jean Tweed Centre, our experiences are as individual as each of us are, and your unique combination of skills, passions, and experiences makes you a valuable asset to our team.

The **Pathways to Healthy Families program **works in a holistic and culturally responsive manner to reduce harm to pregnant and/or parenting women who use substances and their families. Our program provides assessment, service coordination, case management, linkages with relevant social service systems, access to support and counselling and access to child development services including, individual parenting consultations, developmental screenings, parenting support, attachment strategies, support groups and workshops for parents as well as parenting resources and information.

**How will you help to get us there?**

As a Counsellor for Pathways you will:

- Develop the capacity for collaboration and provision of effective supports/interventions to pregnant and parenting women and their children in relationship to substance use and early childhood development through training, consultation and coordination with existing community and service networks.
- Work primarily from a local office located in Brampton, outreaching to services within the community.
- Liaise with existing pregnancy/parent outreach services to promote seamless and integrated services for women and their children.
- Build capacity for the provision of outreach to pregnant and parenting women with substance use concerns.
- Provide individual/group counseling, case management and referral to pregnant and parenting women with substance use concerns in collaboration with existing service providers.

This role reports to the Team Lead, Pathways.

**What will you bring?**
- Bachelors Degree in Social Work, or a related discipline.
- A combination of 3 years of work experience in the field of Mental Health/Substance Use.
- Working knowledge of housing, health care and community resources.
- Ability to use a range of technological tools, e.g. online reporting systems, videoconferencing etc.
- Ability to work independently with mínimal day-to-day supervision.
- Crisis intervention skills, with well-developed problem-solving abilities and interpersonal skills.
- Experience providing counselling and outreach services to individuals who are experiencing or have experienced problems related to substance use and mental health issues.
- Experience working from a harm reduction perspective with individuals who are pregnant and/or parenting young children and using substances.
- Experience working with the Child Welfare System in situations involving substance use.
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