Personal Counsellor/Mental Health Worker (Term)

Job title: Personal Counsellor/Mental Health Worker (Term)

Company: University of Toronto

Job description: Date Posted: 10/01/2024
Req ID: 39884
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Health & Counselling Ctr.
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00034864Description:About us:U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible markon the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learningand discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongsidethe Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome thosewho want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.The Health & Counselling Centre (HCC) at UTM is a multi-disciplinary health clinic that provides student-friendly medical care, mental health counselling, and health education and promotion programs and services to a diverse student population of undergraduate and graduate students. The HCC strives to empower students to make healthier, evidence-based choices to support their growth and development, assists students in their pursuit of academic success, and promotes adoption of positive coping skills to foster greater resiliency in the pursuit of current and future goals. The HCC works closely with other departments across the University with the goal of ensuring students have timely access to quality medical and mental health supports.Your opportunity:Under general direction of the Lead Counsellor, Health & Counselling Centre, the incumbent is responsible for providing counselling and short term psychotherapy to undergraduate and graduate students of diverse ages, economic levels and cultural backgrounds who are experiencing emotional and psychological difficulties (e.g., family problems, interpersonal conflicts, anxiety, low self-esteem) using individual, couple, or group counselling methods. The incumbent must assess and refer, as appropriate, to community resources and available supports for students; act as a resource for other student service professionals and make referrals to other areas/resources within UTM (i.e. Accessibility Services, academic advising, career counselling, Academic Skills Centre), the University and the community; and participate in Orientation and other outreach programs as required. The incumbent will alsoassist students to select options for their mental health care using the Stepped Care 2.0 model.
The incumbent will be providing counselling services within the HCC, as well as while embedded within other departments on campus. The incumbent will be responsible for working independently on outreach initiatives specific to the student populations in these departments to increase access to supports on and off campus, and assist with the transition to student life at UTM, as well as within academic departments on campus. There will be opportunities to deliver information on wellness and resiliency through webinars and workshops, and to participate in health promotion activities delivered by the HCC.Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy for students and making referrals to appropriate resources
• Providing initial clinical support and/or counselling to distressed students in crisis and making referrals to appropriate resources
• Screening students to determine suitability for short-term counselling
• Assessing the mental health of clients
• Determining if there is a life-threatening situation, risk of self-harm or harm to others and independently applying appropriate interventions
• Developing components of treatment plans based on appropriate therapeutic approaches
• Updating and maintaining patient records
• Developing psychotherapeutically-appropriate materials for group counselling and intake procedures for clients

Essential Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in social work or counselling/psychotherapy. Must be a current member, in good standing, within a Regulated Health Profession.
• Minimum five years of independent clinical experience, after completion of degree requirements and training, including experience in an outpatient or Community setting
• Experience with the young adult population (17-25 year olds) is required
• Prior experience with crisis counselling, and with drop-in or same-day counselling
• Experience and demonstrated ability to deliver training and workshops to staff and students on mental health related topics
• Prior training and focus of practice in working with individuals who have experienced trauma or have been diagnosed with PTSD required
• Familiarity and experience with short-term, goal-oriented, evidence-based therapeutic interventions
• Prior experience with single-session therapy
• Prior experience developing and facilitating group therapy programs
• Experience providing multi-cultural counselling is required
• Strong counselling, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
• Experience working within short-term counselling model (i.e., 8-session limit)
• Good judgment and reliability
• Non-judgmental attitude
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong computer skills (e.g., MS Office, Internet, Outlook), and comfortable with virtual presenting and technology

Assets (Nonessential):

• Prior cultural competency training an asset
• Experience delivering Mindfulness Meditation sessions an asset
• Familiarity with electronic medical record keeping an asset
• Prior experience working within a multi-disciplinary treatment team and/or within a primary care environment an asset
• Prior experience and familiarity with the Stepped Care model for mental health is an asset

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Approachable
• Communicator
• Diplomatic
• Patient
• Perceptive
• Team player

Closing Date: 10/10/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget – Term
Schedule: Monday to Friday regualr hours and 1 evening weeknight shift
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 15 — $95,627. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $122,290. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Health & Wellbeing
Recruiter: Jessica HaltehLived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.This is a term position ending January 9,2026.This role is not currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the

Expected salary: $95627 per year

Location: Mississauga, ON

Job date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 22:25:46 GMT

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