Trauma Group Counsellor

**JOB OPPORTUNITY: Trauma**
**Group Counsellor**

**Download PDF Job Posting here**

**Trauma Group Counsellor (Sexual Abuse Intervention Programs) **Competition #55-22

**DO YOU WANT A MEANINGFUL CAREER, HELPING OTHERS? JOIN US**

About the Role

We are a community-based, not-for profit organization with approximately 80 social services programs and 420 employees across Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. We provide counselling and other essential services to the most vulnerable people in our communities. For over 90 years, we’ve inspired and supported those who need help reaching their full potential. We work to ensure children are nurtured, youth find optimism, adults feel empowered, and parents make choices that build strong families.

The Group Counsellor in the SAIP (Sexual Abuse Intervention Program) program provides a range of groups for children and youth who have experienced sexual abuse, as well as their non-offending parents and caregivers. The Group Counsellor works in collaboration with the Counsellors in the SAIP program to determine the needs of children, youth and families in our programs, and develops and implements group counselling programs to support these needs.

What we offer you:
**Benefits of working with us**:
Flexible scheduling

Starting at three weeks’ vacation for full time staff (pro-rated for part-time) and growing to more +

Three (3) paid household leave days a year

One paid Wellness Day a year

Paid sick days

Two and a half paid Agency days for full time staff (pro-rated for part-time)

Five paid days for education leave/year (pro-rated for part-time)

One paid Moving Day/year

Subsidized professional association annual dues (if applicable)

Possibility of remote work/ hybrid work

A work culture that values transparency, teamwork, learning, fairness and integrity

**Health and Welfare benefits**:
Generous group health/dental benefits after 3 months.

Three flex options for health/dental coverage depending on the coverage you need

Option of psychological/counselling services (up to $1500/year)

Employee Assistance Plan

Long Term Disability Plan

Group Life Insurance, Travel insurance, ++

**Pension**:
Pension plan enrollment after 12 months

**Work Hours**: 17.5 hrs/week (Regular Part-time)

**Salary**: GS12B range
- $34.17 - $37.89 hourly rate

**Location**: Vancouver and Richmond offices
**with the possibility of working in a hybrid role**

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

What you bring:
**Education, Training, Experience**
- Completed an M.S.W. or M.A./M.Ed (Psychology) / or equivalent, and are registered as an RCC or RSW
- Minimum of 2 years supervised relevant group counselling experience with a preference for group art therapy skills
- Experience providing group counselling to children, youth, parents and caregivers

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**
- A trauma-informed, feminist, anti-oppressive, intersectional lens to the work
- Strong group counselling and expressive art therapy skills - looking for someone who is passionate about group counselling
- Strong foundation in trauma counselling and solid understanding of the neurobiological impacts of trauma, attachment and family systems - expressive art therapy and somatic therapy training and experience an asset
- Experience working with children, youth and families who have experienced sexual abuse
- Ability to provide group counselling both in-person and/or online
- Lead regular counselling groups for children, youth, parents/caregivers and families in the SAIP Program
- Provide psycho-educational workshops for community organizations and agencies/groups about child sexual abuse and trauma
- Assess the individual needs of participants in preparation for the group
- Assist in the recruitment and coordination of volunteers for child-minding for the group (for parent/caregiver groups)
- Committed to working as part of a team and to ongoing personal and professional growth and development
- supervise Masters level interns around group counselling & facilitation

**Additional Requirements**
- Successful completion of criminal record check
- **Proof of Covid-19 vaccination status will be required**

How to apply:
Our programs are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unseeded territory 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.