Child & Family Clinician - Infant, Child, Youth, and Family

**CHILD AND FAMILY CLINICIAN**

**INFANT, CHILD, YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES (ICYF)**

**Full Time (37.5 hours/week)**

EveryMind (formerly Peel Children's Centre) is looking for highly skilled, experienced, and enthusiastic mental health professionals to work with various programs and services to provide a continuum of mental health interventions to children/youth and their families.

EveryMind is an accredited children’s mental health centre that provides a continuum of high-quality mental health services for children, youth and their families who are experiencing social, emotional and/or behavioural challenges.

**Summary of Infant, Child, Youth and Family (ICYF) Counselling & Therapy Services**

The Child and Family Clinician will provide a continuum of mental health interventions, ranging from brief interventions with individual children/youth and/or their caregivers, to short-term family counseling, and will facilitate therapeutic workshops/groups with children/youth and caregivers. These interventions are designed to improve child/youth development, functioning and resiliency at home, in the community and at school.. These services will be delivered in a variety of settings and locations based on client needs. Additionally, this service will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure the mental health needs of children/youth and families in the Peel community are being addressed.

**Salary - 5-step range of $68,965 - $80,680 over 5 years**

Please note that hiring salaries are commensurate with experience and generally start at the beginning of the range.

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Why work at EveryMind?_**
- Work for the **_lead agency _**in child and youth mental health services for Region of Peel, known for our excellence in providing quality services.
- Join a workplace culture that embraces **_Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Anti-racism (DEIA)_** with employee-led internal committees focusing on Black Engagement, LGBTQ2S, Indigenous Knowledge. Join staff forums on DEIA issues.
- Enjoy hybrid work with most service delivered in person, and with some aspects of the role done remotely from your home
- Enjoy exceptional training and development opportunities including an **_Education Assistance Plan_** to support employees in further education in their field.
- Experience a strong workplace wellness focus**:_4 weeks paid vacation_**, 2 float days, paid personal leave days, in addition to 11 paid public holidays;
- An Extended Health Plan that includes **_$1000 for mental health supports_** and a **_Flexible Health Spending Account._**:

- An excellent Extended Health and Dental benefits plan**,**_all premiums fully paid by the employer, no co-pay required by the employee._**:

- Income protection Sick leave Plan and Life insurance.
- Free, confidential 24/7 counseling and mental health support for you and your family via our Employee and Family Assistance Program.
- Join an exceptional **_Retirement Plan_** where the employer contributes 7% equivalent of your salary to your personal pension plan.
- Use of a company Laptop and cellphone provided to employees.

**Responsibilities**:
The incumbent will:

- Provide skilled assessments, formulations, and treatment services to children/youth and their families/caregivers by employing a variety of systemic and evidence-based/evidenced-informed treatment approaches (including CBT, Motivational Interviewing, DBT skills, and trauma-informed as well as attachment-informed frameworks) to enhance parent/family and child/youth interactions and functioning at home, in school and in community.
- Provide single session mental health consultation sessions to children, youth and their caregivers with the Tangerine Walk-In Counselling program.
- Develop, implement and regularly evaluate treatment plans according to individual client and family/caregiver needs, goals, strengths and cultural values.
- Facilitate the enhancement of the child and family’s informal and formal supports.
- Effectively design and implement a holistic crisis plan to ensure client safety and wellbeing.
- Provide case management and outreach services to ensure coordination and delivery of services that meet changing needs of clients and families.
- Provide transitional support and discharge planning to clients exiting service to ensure sustainability of treatment gains.
- Provide group services as required.
- Provide in-person, virtual and telephone counselling sessions as needed.
- Demonstrate a passion for working with children and families and possess working knowledge of social service, educational, and employment systems and resources within Peel.
- Participate as an active member of a multidisciplinary team in clinical team meetings, program and agency level meetings.
- Maintain comprehensive case records and data for all clients in accordance with the organizations’ standards and timelines.

**Skills and Qualifications**
- Possess a Master’s Degree in Social Work, Counselling Psychology or health related fie