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Young People’s Lodge – Child and Youth Care Counsellor

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Young People’s Lodge – Child and Youth Care Counsellor role at Hull Services

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Hull Services has an organizational commitment to pursuing truth and reconciliation, decolonization and anti-oppression. Hull Services has long had a reputation for providing leading edge child, youth, and family mental health services. We work with children, youth and families who have experienced mental health struggles, behavioural problems, developmental delay, neglect, abuse and trauma. Hull offers them an opportunity to seek well-being and happiness, with a focus on mental health.

Hull’s vision is for resilient young people and families to thrive within communities that support their mental health and well‑being. Hull’s programs and services include prevention and early intervention, family‑based treatment, school‑based services, community group care, campus‑based care, adult services and education and training. Located in Calgary, we have been serving Alberta’s young people and families for 60 years, and support over 8,000 young people and families each year.

• Competitive total compensation package, including Health/Dental, Employee Assistance Program and RRSP matching
• Generous vacation, personal time off and sick day allocations.
• Workperks corporate discounts and discounts to a variety of different fitness facilities
• Free on‑site parking and walkable campus
• Collaborative, supportive and a fun place to work
• Opportunity to have a meaningful impact on children and young people

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Young People’s Lodge provides treatment for adolescents with serious emotional and/or behavioural difficulties who are not yet able to be effectively served in the community. An emphasis is placed on connection to family and natural supports, community participation, and skill development. Treatment at Track:
Young People’s Lodge is informed by the Neurosequential Model (NM), an evidence‑based framework for understanding the impact of trauma on brain development, as well as Positive Behavior Supports (PBS), a multi‑tiered framework for selecting and implementing developmentally appropriate and evidence‑based socioemotional, cognitive, and behavioral interventions to decrease mental health and behavioral challenges and increase socioemotional and adaptive skills.

We are looking for a full time Child and Youth Care Counsellor
. The schedule for this position requires flexibility to work weekdays, weekends and morning and/or evening shifts (shifts are generally 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.). Reporting to the Program Coordinator, our Child and Youth Care Counsellors are members of an interdisciplinary team which assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the treatment program(s) for youth. The Counsellor participates in all facets of program life and is responsible for our youths’ daily care, treatment, health, nurturance, and supervision.

• Attend to the physical safety, esteem and developmental needs of our young people.
• Supervise, organize and implement daily living activities as well as recreational activities and see these as opportunities for educational and therapeutic interventions.
• Use routines and activities to give children and youth security and enable them to relate to others in socially acceptable ways; help the youth understand the need for routines and procedures.
• Provide meaningful and responsible role modelling, as well as direct teaching in areas of grooming, hygiene, dress, nutrition and social manners.
• Identify and act on goal‑related teaching opportunities; use systematic plans of instruction, appropriate teaching methods and approaches to transfer information and skills.
• Select and make appropriate use of behavioural interventions and strategies.
• Communicate rules and behavioural limits and follow through on appropriate behavioural interventions.
• Improve the quality of life for our young people by attending to their physical environment.
• Monitor and work directly with youth in all aspects of their lives, i.e.,…