Efap Counsellor

JOB OPPORTUNITY**:EFAP Counsellor**

**EFAP Counsellor**Competition #15-25

About Our Opportunity:
Family Services Employee Assistance Program (FSEAP) provides clinical counselling services to employees of client organizations who may be experiencing problems in their personal, family, or work lives. In addition, the program provides a variety of organizational services to its corporate clients, including workplace consulting and training, and critical incident stress management responses. As a social enterprise of Family Services of Greater Vancouver (FSGV), FSEAP is a fee-generating business, with all of its profits going to support the larger work of FSGV and the Greater Vancouver community.

Working within the mission, vision, values and person-centred philosophy of the Agency, the Counsellor provides short term, solutions focused counselling in an EAP model for children, youth and families, individuals and couples, serving clients of all ages, family configurations and income groups, addressing a wide spectrum of concerns including separation and divorce, relationship difficulties, parenting concerns, family conflict, loss and grief, ageing, depression, anxiety. It actively supports the Agency’s awareness and goals around diversity and inclusion.

**We Value You
- Benefits**:

- 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)
- 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**: 21-28 hours (hybrid work hours/ flexible scheduling)

**Salary**: GS 13 Step 1 $37.89/ hour

**Location**: 3700 Minoru Blvd., Richmond and 1638 E Broadway, Vancouver

**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 of three years related work experience providing counselling for individuals, couples, families and/or children or 2,500 counselling hours
- Current registration with a regulatory body: RSW, CCC or RCC

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**
- Superior clinical skills, including significant understanding of mental health and substance abuse issues and short-term, solution-focused treatment approaches
- Exceptional case management skills, including knowledge of community resources and ability to assist clients to effectively access, utilize, and benefit from those resources
- Demonstrated ability to create and manage professional clinical records with exacting detail
- Second language would be an asset, but is not required

**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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**JOIN US FOR A MEANINGFUL CAREER HELPING OTHERS AND BRING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF**

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-edge work that has a direct impact on the local community.

Family Services Employee Assistance Program (FSEAP) provides clinical counsell