What's Up Walk-in and Brief Counsellor

February 28, 2025 Job Posting #1472
- **YouthLink believes in the potential of every youth. We are dedicated to providing them with the support, guidance and opportunities they need to make positive life choices. We provide youth with brief and ongoing counselling, in-home wraparound support, shelter, housing, educational support, and safe drop-in spaces. YouthLink works towards equitable outcomes for youth in our community and, as such, is committed to equity-based hiring practices.**_

**YouthLink Benefits are Top of Class**
- Competitive pay
- Health & dental coverage for you and your family with 100% premium cost paid by employer.
- Annual vacation with pay at 1.66 working days for each calendar month to a maximum of **20** working days per year.
- **5** ‘authorized absence’ days for family illness or emergency circumstances that prohibit employees from reporting to work.
- **3**paid agency days every calendar year after 3 calendar months’ service.
- Maternity / parental /adoption leave top-up payments (to top-up Canadian government unemployment benefit payments).
- 100% premium cost for long-term disability coverage paid by employee.
- Eligibility to participate in pension plan after 2 years of continuous service with generous matching contribution from employer.

**What’s Up Walk-In and Brief Counsellor**

**(2 Vacant Positions)**

**(Permanent Full-Time, 35 hours/week)**

**Bargaining Unit Position**

This position is responsible for delivering exceptional client service related to brief individual psychotherapy for individuals age 0-24 and their families. This includes capturing a brief assessment, administrating, scoring and delivering results of standardized assessments, treatment planning, case management, psycho-education, advocacy, clinical consultations, individual psychotherapy, discharge planning; at times there may be a need to prepare reports for clients presenting with mental health, emotional or behavioural issues. Additionally, this position maintains confidential and accurate client records for all psychotherapy interactions in the electronic health record (EHR).

Single Session, Brief Solution Focused, Narrative, Trauma Informed therapeutic models of intervention are required; utilizing an equity, anti-racism, inclusion lens. Counsellors create a flexible work schedule with two consistent evenings to meet client needs while working as a team to deliver counselling and therapy programs. Services are provided both in person and virtually depending on the counsellor’s recommendations. This position reports to the Senior Manager of Clinical Services and is responsible for a caseload of youth engaged in Brief Therapy while also servicing youth in the WUWI service and Ontario’s One Stop Talk single session models.

**Highlights of Your Role**
- Assessment & Treatment Planning
- Individual Psychotherapy & Single Session Family Counselling
- Report Writing and Documentation
- Health Record Management
- Meetings, Committees and Collaborative Networking
- Any other duties as assigned.

**Supports Organization’s Strategy**:
Actively contributes to the Agency’s Strategic Plan by participating in initiatives and committees to support the overall Plan.

Takes all reasonable and necessary precautions to protect his or her own health and safety and that of co-workers by complying and demonstrating knowledge of the policies, procedures and safe practices established by YouthLink

**Highlights of What You Bring**
:

- Master’s degree in a psychotherapy related field.
- Licensure/registration in a regulated Ontario Health College which permits the delivery of the Act of Psychotherapy; including RP (Qualifying).
- Coursework or training in family intervention skills and strategies in an asset.
- ASSIST Certification is an asset.
:

- Master’s Practicum/Internship in a psychotherapist role.
- Familiarity with suicide/risk assessment and safety planning.
- Experience providing crisis management and crisis support services.
- Experience working with marginalized youth, their families, newcomers and diverse youth populations living in under-served communities.
- Experience supporting BIPOC communities and working with youth and families from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds; providing high quality, culturally safe, anti-racist support.
- Experience working in a Children’s Mental Health setting is an asset.
- Experience working from an attachment and developmental approach is an asset.
- Experience providing a harm reduction theory and practice as it applies to youth substance use is an asset.
- Must be able to obtain a Broad Record Police Check.
- This position requires evening hours of up to 2 evenings per week.
- There are some risks involved in this position such as crisis management.
- Minimal travelling required.

**Working days and hours**:
35 hours per week.

Position 1: Wednesday - Sunday

Position 2: Saturday - Wednesday

**Salary**: $60,835

**How to Apply**
- Position open until fi