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Counsellor - Changing Lives/violence Against Women
3 weeks ago
**Program**:
Counselling Service - Changing Lives Family Violence Programs***
**Contract**:
Permanent Full
- Time, 35 hours per week
**Location**:
Hybrid work model, 355 Church Street with possibility of other FST sites or from a safe, home
- based office as required
**Salary**:
$55,574 - $68,450 BU Grade 8
**Application Deadline**:
Open until filled
**File Number**:
COU #30-22 - with cover letter and resume
**E-Mail**:
**Mail**:
HR, 355 Church Street, Toronto ON M5B 0B2
**Web**:
familyservicetoronto.org
Grow with us
Family Service Toronto (FST) helps people face a wide variety of life challenges. For over 100 years, we have
worked with individuals and families destabilized by precarious mental health and/or socioeconomic
circumstances, to achieve greater resilience and stability in more just and supportive communities. We
achieve this through our direct service work of intervention and prevention which includes counselling, peer
support and education; knowledge building; and system-level work including social action, advocacy,
community building and working with partners to strengthen the sector.
We’re proud of our people and culture We are constantly evolving what we do and how we do it. Our
work is grounded in the lived experience of the clients and the community. We celebrate diversity, equity,
inclusion, and excellence. We are agile, learning and always willing to try new things.
**The Opportunity**
FST Changing Lives Family Violence, Counselling program provides trauma informed and trauma specific
mental health counselling to a diverse range of people facing a variety of issues. This is a unique
opportunity to take a lead role on the Counselling Team to work with the newly operational Toronto
Community Crisis Service (TCCS). TCCS provides an alternative to police enforcement, creating a
community-based, client centred, trauma-informed response to mental health crisis calls and wellness
checks. FST is partnering with Gerstein Centre, one of four agencies piloting this program. The
counsellor will provide brief strengths based anti-oppressive psychotherapy to clients who have accessed
TCCS in a mental health crisis. Along with brief psychotherapy, the counsellor will also work with the
Counselling team in our walk-in counselling program and/or carry a small case load of clients accessing
the Counselling Service. This counsellor will be part of an outstanding team using a range of therapeutic
modalities, participating in clinical consultations and a shared commitment to professional
development.
**Ready to make that move? Here’s what’s in it for you**:
- Thrive in trust-based culture and have fun, working with an amazing, diverse group of
driven, talented people.- Be part of a workplace incorporating trauma informed care into all aspects of service
delivery, building on the principles of knowledge-building and resiliency.- Get on-the-job training and development.
- Make a significant impact on our clients and community.
- This full-time permanent position offers flexibility, generous paid leave and comes with an
attractive compensation and benefits package.
- **What we are looking for**:
**Counselling expertise:
- Provide culturally competent, trauma informed and evidence-based interventions,
including:
- o Single session and short-term therapies
- Anti-oppressive mental health counselling
- Trauma specific counselling
- Provide brief counselling to clients who have recently survived a mental health crisis
- Provide services to clients from diverse ethno-cultural communities, diverse sexual
orientation and gender identities, and to clients who are marginalized by a range of systemic
- issues- Experience and/or knowledge of working with people facing an array of challenges,
including mental and physical health issues, impacts of trauma and oppression, involuntary
- interaction with emergency services such as police and hospitals.
- **Key Qualifications**:
- M.S.W., M.A. or M.Ed., Foreign credentials or BSW and relevant experience are valued.
- Applicants must be registered and in good standing with the College of Social Workers and
Social Service Workers or the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario.
- Demonstrated clinical training, experience, and competence in integrating at least two
clinical modalities into practice (e.g. Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, DBT, CBT,
- EMDR, Sensorimotor psychotherapy)- Demonstrated creativity, flexibility, and excellence in therapeutic engagement
- Demonstrated commitment to, and understanding of the principles of social justice,
cultural competency and equity and inclusion.- Current knowledge of best practices in mental health (e.g., crisis de-escalation, suicide
prevention, harm reduction, child abuse, and gender-based violence).- Second language is an asset
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
**Interested?**
**Our goal is to attract, develop, and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrou
