Trauma Counsellor

**JOB OPPORTUNITY: Trauma Counsellor (STV Program)**

**Trauma Counsellor (STV Program)**Competition #43-25

About Our Opportunity:
We are looking for an experienced and dedicated Trauma Counsellor to join our STV counselling program and Trauma Services team. Trauma Counsellors, in our STV Program, provide trauma-informed counselling for folks from all marginalized genders who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. Counselling services include intake, assessment, treatment, referrals, and consultation and collaboration with other service providers. Our Trauma Counsellors support clients in their healing journeys from a feminist, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, intersectional lens.

**We Value You
- Benefits**:

- Flexible scheduling
- Two paid Wellness Days a year
- Paid sick days
- Subsidized professional association annual dues (if applicable)
- A work culture that values transparency, teamwork, learning, fairness and integrity
- (pro-rated for part-time staff)

**Pension**: Municipal Pension plan enrollment for eligible employees

**Work Hours**: 20.5 hours per week (part-time - term position, under 1 year)

**Salary**: GS 13 Step 1 $37.89 per hour

**Location**: Vancouver office: 1638 E. Broadway

**Posting End Date**:Posting will remain open until filled

What do you need to succeed?

**Education, Training, Experience**
- Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology or equivalent degree (MA, M.Ed, MSW) & registered with a professional body (BCACC, BC College of Social Workers)
- A minimum of 3 years of relevant counselling experience working with adults who have experienced trauma
- Training in trauma-informed counselling, somatic approaches, parts-work and expressive-arts-based interventions

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**
- Solid understanding of the best practices in trauma treatment, including somatic approaches, expressive arts-based approaches, the neurobiological impacts of trauma, attachment work, internal family systems/parts-work
- excellent clinical counselling skills (both individual and group counselling)
- Knowledge, skills and experience in working with a diverse client population who have been impacted by poverty, abuse, neglect, addiction, and mental health issues
- Committed to trauma-informed, feminist, anti-oppressive practice and skills to adapt practice to best meet the needs of clients

**Additional Requirements**
- Successful completion of a Criminal Record Check

How to apply:
We believe in the power of inclusion and the power of enabling all our staff to thrive by embracing diversity and fostering equality. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all staff that dismantles barriers and creates opportunities. Our organization is committed to recruiting a diverse workforce representing the communities we proudly serve while encompassing the principles of equity, inclusion and diversity. Decisions regarding recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, and all other terms and conditions of employment will be made without regard to race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, political beliefs, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or non-applicable criminal condition.

We gratefully acknowledge that our programs are delivered on traditional and ancestral lands and waters of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil Waututh), Qayqayt, Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwekwetlem, Semiahmoo, Matsqui, and Tsawwassen First Nations. Huy ch q’u.

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**JOIN US FOR A MEANINGFUL CAREER HELPING OTHERS AND BRING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF**

About Us

When you work with us, you will join a caring team of people who will value you as a whole person. You will also have the opportunity to do meaningful, leading-edge work that has a direct impact on the local community.

**At Family Services of Greater Vancouver, we have been helping people in crisis since 1928. We are a non-profit working to support and empower individuals, families, and communities. We offer programs and services designed to help people develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence to create positive change in their lives. Our staff operates from an evidence-based, trauma-informed lens to meet people where they are and get them where they want to be.**:
We help people develop skills and knowledge, empowering our neighbours to create positive change in their lives. Our team is made up of more than 360 staff, including expert counsellors and support workers who provide compassionate, client-centred care to youth experiencing homelessness, families and children impacted by trauma, victims of domestic violence, and other vulnerable people from an evidence-based, trauma-informed lens. We believe in building a brighter future for all British Columbians and providing a supportive and inclusive workpl