Care Centre Counsellor

JOB OPPORTUNITY**:Care Centre Counsellor**

**Care Centre Counsellor**Competition #49-25

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About the Role

Working within the mission, vision, values and person-centred philosophy of the Agency, the Intake Care Centre

Counsellor provides the critical first point of contact for FSEAP clients, offering detailed clinical assessment,

immediate clinical counselling support, and referral to ensure clients’ clinical needs are met. The job incumbent is a

clear, skillful, and compassionate counsellor with well-developed counselling knowledge, boundaries, time

management skills, and proficiency in collaborating in a team. It actively supports the Agency’s awareness and

goals around diversity and inclusion.

About our Opportunity:
**Our Valued Benefits**:

- Regular individual and group clinical supervision
- Flexible scheduling
- Three weeks’ vacation for full-time staff
- entitlement increases from there
- Three paid household leave days a year*
- Two paid Wellness Days a year
- Paid sick days
- Two and a half paid Agency days for full-time staff *
- Five paid days for education leave/year*
- One paid Moving Day/year
- Subsidized professional association annual dues (if applicable)
- Possibility of hybrid work/remote work
- A work culture that values transparency, teamwork, learning, fairness and integrity
- (pro-rated for part-time staff)

**Health and Wellness Resources**:

- Generous health/dental benefits after 3 months.
- Three flex benefit options to meet your individualized needs
- Option of psychological/counselling services (up to $1500/year)
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Long Term Disability Plan
- Insurance, Travel insurance, ++

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

**Work Hours**: 21 hours/week

**Salary**: G12B Step 1 $36.61 per hour

**Location**: 1638 E. Broadway, Vancouver, BC (onsite for first six months; then potential hybrid)

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

What do you need to succeed?

**Education, Training, Experience**
- Master's Degree in Social Work, Counselling or Clinical Psychology or equivalent
- Minimum one-year experience in a clinical setting
- Current active registration with a professional regulatory body for the province of BC: RSW, CCC or RCC

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**
- Knowledge of clinical psychotherapy models and techniques, for individuals, couples and families, including developmental and attachment theory
- Familiarity with addiction and recovery theories and treatment
- Familiarity with the legal system/legislation pertaining to child protection, the duty to warn criteria and the Personal Information Protection Act
- Excellent intake, crisis intervention and assessment skills and the ability to develop flexible treatment plans that meet the unique individual needs of the client
- Ability to provide cognitive-behavioral strategies for clients, including psycho-education, affect management, self-regulation, stress management and strategies to help manage depression and anxiety
- Ability to integrate knowledge of therapeutic models and techniques into practice
- Understanding of cross-cultural and equity issues
- Ability to work independently and on a team
- Ability to work cooperatively and effectively with social service system personnel and other community programs
- Knowledge of community resources

**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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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-