Indigenous Student Counsellor

A Brief Overview

The Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre (FDISC) exists to support the development and well-being of Indigenous students at Queen's University. In keeping with the teachings of the Four Directions, the Centre supports individual Indigenous students in balancing their academic, spiritual, physical, and emotional needs. Services offered include advising, counselling, Elder guidance, academic events, and cultural programming.

Reporting to the Director, Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre (FDISC), the Indigenous Student Counsellor will provide professional personal, crisis, and short-term counselling and advising services based on a holistic Indigenous Knowledge sharing model for Indigenous students at Queen's University. The Indigenous Student Counsellor is a professional counselling position with a significant focus on supporting Indigenous student wellness, cultural knowledge sharing, and student success.

In provision of counselling services, the role receives clinical supervision from the Director, Counselling Services.

The purpose of the Indigenous Student Counsellor role within the Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre (FDISC) is to help students develop their capacity to respectfully blend cultural, academic and professional knowledge throughout their learning journeys. The Indigenous Student Counsellor's presence is integral to the development and delivery of holistically based programming coordinated through the FDISC.

This position provides Indigenous based personal, crisis, and short-term counselling to the university's Indigenous students. This position focuses on supporting Indigenous student wellness, cultural knowledge sharing, and student success. This position works in partnership with the university and the local community to build a network of support services, and referral services for Indigenous students.

The schedule for this position requires the incumbent to work evenings and weekends.