Care Centre Counsellor

JOB OPPORTUNITY:
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**Care Centre Counsellor**

Competition #46-23

**DO YOU WANT A MEANINGFUL CAREER, HELPING OTHERS? JOIN US**

About the Role

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 counselling 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.

About our Opportunity:
**Our Valued Benefits**:

- Flexible scheduling
- Starting at three weeks’ vacation for full time staff and growing to more +
- Three (3) 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)
- Possibility of remote work/ hybrid work
- A work culture that values transparency, teamwork, learning, fairness and integrity

**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**: Pension plan enrollment

**Work Hours**: 21-28 hours/ week (Fridays mandatory, other days flexible)

**Salary**: GS12 Step 1 $33.01/ hours

**Location***: 1638 E. Broadway, Vancouver BC (for first 6 months, then hybrid)

**Posting End Date**:Posting will remain open until filled

What you bring:
**Education, Training, Experience**
- Master's Degree in Social Work, Counselling or Clinical Psychology or equivalent, minimum of one year Minimum 1 year experience in clinical setting
- Current registration with a regulatory body: RSW, CCC or RCC

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**
- Knowledge of clinical psychotherapy models and techniques, for individuals, couples and families, including developmental and attachment theory
- Familiarity with addiction and recovery theories and treatment
- Familiarity with the legal system/legislation pertaining to child protection, the duty to warn criteria and the Personal Information Protection Act
- Excellent intake, crisis intervention and assessment skills and the ability to develop flexible treatment plans that meet the unique individual needs of the client
- Ability to provide cognitive-behavioral strategies for clients including psycho-education, affect management, self-regulation, stress management and strategies to help manage depression and anxiety
- Ability to integrate knowledge of therapeutic models and techniques into practice
- Understanding of cross-cultural and equity issues
- Ability to work independently and on a team
- Ability to work cooperatively and effectively with social service system personnel and other community programs
- Knowledge of community resources

**Additional Requirements**
- Successful completion of criminal record check
- Proof of Covid-19 vaccination status will be required

How to apply:
Our programs are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unseeded territory 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.