Counsellor - Sexual Violence Response Team, Student Counselling Services

21 hours ago


Winnipeg, Canada University of Winnipeg Full time

Student Counselling Services at the University of Winnipeg seeks an experienced Counsellor to provide a wide variety of personal counselling services to our students within a diverse, academic setting. **This role will**serve as the designated Counsellor for students referred by the Sexual Violence Response Team (SVRT).**

Student Counselling Services offers a goal-oriented, time-limited service where students can address difficulties and dilemmas that impact their sense of well-being during their university studies. Student Counselling Services provides individual and small group counselling services and a crisis response, as needed, to students who are dealing with personal and mental health issues. Counsellors work within a shared care, collaborative model along with clinicians from other agencies.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provides intake, assessment, care planning, individual and group counselling around a range of issues.
- Demonstrates a commitment to a student centered, trauma informed and culturally sensitive, anti-oppressive, inclusive and holistic framework.
- Works within a shared cared setting, using a stepped care model to support student mental health and wellbeing.
- Responds to students in distress or crisis, and assesses, intervenes, liaises and refers students to other supports or services, as appropriate.
- Provides advocacy on behalf of students’ expressed needs with internal and external contacts.
- Collaborates with colleagues around health and wellness promotion for the campus.
- Provides support, consultation, clinical intervention around disclosures of sexual violence.
- _Provides direct sexual violence counselling and collaborates closely with the Sexual Violence Response Team (SVRT)._
- Offers consultation to staff and faculty related to student mental health and wellbeing.
- Responds to requests and offers education to students, faculty, staff as requested in the form of workshops, presentations, and meetings.
- Consults with students, staff, faculty, and off-campus community agencies as it relates to building awareness and capacity on student mental health and wellbeing.
- Have a Graduate degree in Clinical Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, or another related discipline.
- Be registered/licensed with an appropriate professional body.
- Have training in crisis response, risk assessment, sexual violence and suicide intervention.
- Have specialized training or certification in sexual violence response or gender-based violence and has demonstrated experience supporting survivors of sexual violence.
- Have a minimum of five years clinical experience.
- Possess experience counselling populations presenting a vast diversity of issues and have a demonstrated ability to respond effectively to any presenting issue including suicide, trauma and crisis.
- Be committed to supporting all students, with experience counselling young adults and working with diverse and marginalized persons and communities.
- Have experience working from an anti-oppressive, trauma informed, culturally sensitive student-centered perspective.
- Have experience facilitating workshops, groups and presentations.
- Experienced in planning initiatives and events around mental health and wellness.
- Be experienced in navigating local health and social service community resources.



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