Track: Young People’s Lodge

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 7,000 young people and families each year.

**The Program**:
Track: Young People’s Lodge provides services to help treat adolescents with serious emotional and/or behavioural difficulties who are not yet able to be effectively served in the community. An emphasis is placed on parental involvement, community participation, and the development of relevant community-living skills. The treatment modalities include the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT), an evidence-based practice developed by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), which focuses on teaching skills in four areas: mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness.

**The Position**:
The program has an opening for a **full time Level III Child and Youth Care Counsellor**. This leadership role involves supporting and training staff and responsibility for overall daily program operations. The schedule for this role is Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm/ 1pm to 9pm rotation.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Provide leadership, training and supervision to staff as required.
- Complete supervisory and administrative duties in absence of the Program Coordinator; this could include making decisions regarding program changes and individual cases.
- Coordinate and monitor systems and overall activities on shift.
- Be a liaison between front line and senior staff and ensure effective communication.
- Assist with counsellor evaluations, personal development plans and weekly CSOP evaluations.
- Provide on-the-job training to Level I staff and general supervision and guidance to Level II staff; help support and supervise practicum students.

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- Qualified as a Level III counsellor or has completed their Level III checklist.
- Degree/Diploma in a Human Services, Social Sciences or a related field.
- Experience training and supervising staff.
- Ability to promote and deliver the program’s framework, adhere to and encourage program and Agency standards, and help oversee the operation of the program.
- Demonstrated interest, commitment, consistency, and a high level of personal maturity and responsibility.
- Ability to work independently with mínimal supervision as well as effectively and cooperatively with colleagues.
- Strong organizational and administrative skills.
- Flexibility to work evenings and weekends.
- Cross cultural competence; knowledge of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the recommendations, goals and activities of the commission.
- A Police Information Check, which includes a vulnerable sector search, is required (or is in process of being completed) prior to employment.
- A Child Intervention Record Check is required upon commencement of employment.
- Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license and ability to drive Agency vehicles is preferred (min. 2 years driving experience with a class 5/GDL class 5 license).
- Completion of ASIST, First Aid, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention and Certification with CYCAA.

**To Apply**:

- 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 respect with the people we serve who have often been marginalized and oppressed for their differences. To achieve this, Hull seeks open, self-aware individuals who reflect the diversity of those we serve and can help us build a safe, healthy, inclusive culture. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, place of origin, religious beliefs, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical disability, mental disability, marital status, family status, or sexual orientation._