Conseiller Bilingue en Santé Mentale

**Position Title**: Bilingual Mental Health Counsellor

**Division**: ByWard Family Health Team

**Job Status**: Full-Time 1 Year Contract

**Job Reports To**: Executive Director

**Hourly Rate**: $32.17 - $39.17 ($62,731 - $76,381)

**Mental Health Counsellor (Full-Time 1 Year Contract)**

ByWard Family Health (BWFHT), formerly University of Ottawa Health Services (UOHS), offers a comprehensive range of services to the general public. We are committed to delivering timely, quality, and collaborative assessment, treatment, and health promotion, in a supportive and caring environment that is open and transparent to social, ethnic, and income factors.

**Job Summary**

The primary focus for the Mental Health Counsellor will be the provision of counselling, advocacy and support services for patients and their families.

**Essential Responsibilities**

As a team member of the ByWard Family Health Team, you will:

- Use best practices and innovative approaches to provide client-centered services including assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation services maintaining an average workload of 6 patients/day;
- Provide crisis intervention and liaison with other service providers to support patient stability and recovery;
- Provide ongoing evaluation and revision of patient’s progress/goals;
- Provide direct assistance with symptom management, employment, social relations and/or activities of daily living;
- Areas of competency in this role include depression, trauma, anxiety disorders, and cognitive behaviour techniques, parenting problems, substance abuse and other social problems.
- Works collaboratively with the patients’ primary care provider and other members of the health care team to address the patients’ mental health and overall health care needs.

**Essential Qualifications**
- Master’s degree in counselling or relevant post graduate studies in counselling
- Bilingual essential (French and English)
- Registered member in good standing with the professional association
- Demonstrated in depth knowledge of mental health symptoms, issues, psychotropic medications, and associated side effects
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills in order to effectively engage community services and individuals, increasing awareness of services and establishes rapport with persons living with serious mental illness
- Ability to work in a computerized environment
- Ability to work effectively either in person or remotely
- A minimum of 2-years experience providing mental health services in a community or primary health care setting preferably as a mental health case manager

**WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER**:

- A dynamic work environment for those who thrive in a fast-paced setting
- Excellent, benefit plan after a qualifying period
- Competitive wage based on level of experience
- Collaborative working environment
- Opportunity to learn and grow in your career
- Both in-person and virtual visits (hybrid clinical schedule)

**Closing Date**: Until this role has been filled

We thank all applicants for applying; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

**Titre du poste**: Conseiller bilingue en santé mentale

**Division**: Équipe de santé familiale ByWard

**Statut du poste**: Contrat d'un an à temps plein

**Le poste relève de**: Directeur exécutif

**Taux horaire**: 32,17 $ - 39,17 $ (62 731 $ - 76 381 $)

**Conseiller en santé mentale**(Contrat d'un an à temps plein)**

Le Service de santé familiale ByWard (SSFB), anciennement les Services de santé de l'Université d'Ottawa (SSUO), offre une gamme complète de services au grand public. Nous nous engageons à fournir des services d'évaluation, de traitement et de promotion de la santé en temps opportun, de qualité et en collaboration, dans un environnement de soutien et de soins qui est ouvert et transparent aux facteurs sociaux, ethniques et de revenu.

**Résumé du poste**

L'objectif principal du conseiller en santé mentale sera de fournir des services de conseil, de défense et de soutien aux patients et à leurs familles.

**Responsabilités essentielles**

En tant que membre de l'équipe de santé familiale ByWard, vous devrez:

- Utiliser les meilleures pratiques et des approches innovantes pour fournir des services centrés sur le client, y compris des services d'évaluation, de traitement et de réadaptation en maintenant une charge de travail moyenne de 6 patients/jour ;
- Fournir une intervention en cas de crise et assurer la liaison avec d'autres prestataires de services pour soutenir la stabilité et le rétablissement des patients ;
- Fournir une évaluation et une révision continues des progrès/objectifs du patient
- Fournir une assistance directe pour la gestion des symptômes, l'emploi, les relations sociales et/ou les activités de la vie quotidienne ;
- Les domaines de compétence de ce rôle comprennent la dépression, les traumatismes, les troubles anxieux et les techniques cognitivo-comportementales, les problèmes parentaux, la toxicomanie et d'aut