Youth and Family Counsellor

**JOB POSTING**:
Posting date: June 19, 2025
Application deadline: June 30, 2025
Expected Start date: September 2, 2025
End date: June 26, 2026
Continued recall for subsequent school
- MISSION: To create a connected, collaborative, inclusive _years is expected, dependent on funding
- and sustainable community._

**_The FGCA is a non-profit charitable society governed by a Board of Directors. We are a multi-faceted _**
**_community organization that runs licensed programs (preschool, out-of-school care and daycare) and _**

**_community programs and services for individuals of all ages and stages. _**

**Job Title: Youth and Family Counsellor, Esquimalt High School**
**Position Type**: 0.8 FTE
**Expected Start Date**: September 2, 2025
**End date**:June 28, 2025**
**Hours of work**:28 hours per week, schedule to be determined in consultation with principal**
**Salary Range**: Recruitment wage $31.30-$32.20 per hour, dependent on education and experience as a
school-based Youth & Family Counsellor. Wage range with years of service increases is $31.30 to $34.10.
**Vacation and Benefits**: Paid vacation during winter and spring breaks. Eligible for extended medical,
dental, Life, Critical Illness, LTD and AD&D after 3 month probationary period. (70% employer paid).
Eligible for RSP matching contributions after 3 months (up to 3% of gross pay). For additional
employment benefits see fairfieldcommunity.ca/employment opportunities
Additional budget available for expenses (including mileage) and professional development.
**Reports to**: Vanya McDonell, Co-Executive Director. Onsite supervisor is school Principal.

**Overall Position Objectives**

The role of the school-based Youth and Family Counsellor is to provide identification and intervention in
the areas of counselling, skill development, advocacy, and support services to vulnerable children/youth
and their families. Children/youth who are vulnerable are those who are experiencing familial,
emotional, behavioural, and/or cultural issues which significantly limit their capacity to function
effectively within their family, school, and/or community. Esquimalt High School serves approximately
700 students in grades 9 to 12 with a catchment including students from Esquimalt, Victoria West, View
Royal, Saanich, and the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations. Esquimalt High offers special programs
for French Immersion, 4C Challenge Gifted Education, Student Leadership, Aboriginal Nations Education
and Career Preparation Programs in General Mechanics and Culinary Arts. Our motto “Esse Quam
Videri” means “to be, rather than to seem.” At Esquimalt High School we also think of this as “be true to
yourself” and we believe that this is the spirit of our school.

**Goals of the Youth and Family Counselling Service**

The Youth and Family Counsellor aims to have students:

- Remain enrolled and connected with an educational program;
- Maintain, repair and encourage healthy attachments to family and other significant adults;
- Develop healthy social relationships and positive self worth.

**Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities**
- To act in a non-curricular/non-teaching capacity in the school and in the community by

providing counselling and support services to students and their families;
- To provide a range of formal and informal interventions and services in the school to students

and their families;
- To provide individual, family, and group counselling for at risk students identified in the school
- To be available for crisis interventions when identified as necessary by school based case

management team;
- To be an advocate and support, consistent with the outcome goals, for students and their

families within the school environment;
- To participate in school based activities such as school-bases case management teams, case

conferences, and staff meetings and to keep accurate and current case documentation
concerning assessment, client goals, service actions and case evaluation;
- Initiate preventative interventions (i.e. health promotion, mental health strategies, parenting,

drug and alcohol education);
**Qualifications (Education / Skills/ Abilities)**
- A degree in Child and Youth Care or Social Work (or equivalent), with related experience

working with vulnerable youth and their families;
- The means and ability to do outreach to students and families;
- Will have a clear vulnerable sector Criminal Record and Abuse registry check;
- Proof of COVID-19 vaccination
- Membership with the South Vancouver Island School Based Youth & Family Counsellors

**_The FGCA is an equal opportunity employer committed to establishing an inclusive, equitable, and _**
**_accessible environment for all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment _**
**_without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender _**
**_identity or expression, marital status or any other basis protected by applicable law. The FGCA