Clinical Counsellor

LOCATION:791 St. Clair Avenue West (Temporary

Location:

1345 St. Clair West, Toronto, ON M6E 1C3)

REPORTS TO:Senior Manager, Newcomer Services

CONTRACT TYPE: Indefinite (Union)

HOURS:35 hours per week (Monday – Friday, occasional evenings and/or weekend hours)

RATE:$28.84 per hour

START DATE: Immediately

COMPANY:

Located on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, Skills for Change (SfC) is working towards advancing the Sustainable Development Goals for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Named Charity Village's Best Non-Profit Employer - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and winner of the 2021 Canada Volunteer Awards for Innovation, our organization is committed to reducing poverty, improve mental health, eliminating gender-based violence, building community, eradicating systemic racism, and settling and creating sustainable communities for all immigrants, refugees, and underserved communities.

Start your career with SfC and join our 40-year history of creating innovative programming to build welcoming and equitable communities.

GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY:

With 40 years of operations, Skills for Change is a highly respected non-profit charity with a province wide reputation for pioneering programs that respond to shifting immigration and workplace trends and lead to employment. We offer a range of accelerated programs including mentoring, employment, settlement, language training together with specialized programs for skilled trades, women, and youth. We have 5 locations across the GTA and serve 16,000 clients annually.

We believe we are in the best position to provide thought leadership through evidence-based programming, impact stories and proactive policy advocacy using knowledge mobilization products.

PROGRAM NATURE AND SCOPE:

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Newcomer Services this Clinical Counsellor will provide high quality and responsive mental health counselling support to support newcomers, refugees and underserved populations across Ontario with their mental health and wellness. In addition, the role will assist the program participants with disorders of thought, cognition, emotional regulation, perception, or memory that may seriously disrupt their judgment, insight, behavior, communication, interpersonal relationships, and social/ professional.

• Experience and sensitivity in dealing with members of diverse cultural and racial backgrounds including visible and invisible dimensions of diversity.
• Knowledge or understanding of the socioeconomic, cultural, political and other issues impacting the health and wellbeing of immigrants and refugee women, and seniors including those who recently migrated to Canada.
• Demonstrated commitment to high standards of culturally sensitive service delivery within an anti-racist and anti-oppressive framework.
• Knowledge of community mental health and other resources available to immigrants and refugees including women, seniors, LGBTQI2S+, and other populations across the GTA.
• Demonstrated ability in using discretion in dealing with highly sensitive and confidential issues relating to adults from equity seeking groups.
• Good organizational skills and ability to multitask in a quick-paced work environment while maintaining a high level of accuracy, confidentiality and professionalism.
• Demonstrated a high degree of initiation, risk management, time management and problem-solving ability.
• Intermediate to master level skills in Microsoft (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• We encourage applications from candidates with lived experience similar to the clients we serve.

• Conduct case consultation, wellness checks, client intake, risk…