Evening Counsellor

Full-Time | Residential Addictions Treatment Position:

Evening Staff (Full-Time)

Toronto, ON

Monday to Friday, 4:30 p.m. – 12:00 am

$24/hour

September 2026

Clinical Director

Ryding House is a new 12-bed residential addictions treatment program opening in Toronto. We provide evidence-informed, trauma- and violence-informed, and relational care for adults seeking recovery from substance use. Our approach recognizes that recovery is shaped not only by individual change, but also by relationships, community, and the environments people live in.

This is an opportunity to help shape a new residential program from the ground up while working within a supportive and clinically engaged team.

The Evening Counsellor supports residents through structured evening programming, daily routines, community living, and relational engagement.

This role focuses on building supportive relationships, fostering a respectful residential community, responding calmly to emerging concerns, and helping residents feel safe and connected during evening hours. The successful candidate will contribute to a treatment environment grounded in relational practice, anti-racist and anti-oppressive principles, and trauma- and violence-informed care.

• Build respectful, collaborative relationships with residents through consistent relational engagement.
• Support residents with evening routines, meals, recreational activities, and structured and unstructured evening programming.
• Promote a safe, welcoming, and recovery-oriented residential environment, in a consistent, trauma- and violence-informed, and non-punitive manner.
• Complete timely and accurate documentation, including shift notes, incident reports, and relevant observations.
• Assist with maintaining shared spaces and completing light housekeeping or closing duties.
• Maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality, and ethical practice at all times.
• Participate in staff meetings, training, and ongoing professional development.

We're looking for someone who is calm, compassionate, dependable, and committed to creating an engaged therapeutic community.

Required qualifications include:

• Minimum two years of experience working in addictions, mental health, residential treatment, housing services, or related community-based social services.
• Diploma in Addictions and Mental Health, Social Service Work, Community Service Work, or a related field preferred.
• Understanding of non-stigmatizing approaches to care.
• Ability to engage residents while recognizing the impact of trauma, stigma, life history, culture, the social environment, and lived experience.
• Comfort working within a residential addictions setting, including responding appropriately to withdrawal symptoms, relapse, emotional distress, and complex behaviours.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, conflict resolution, and boundary-setting skills.
• Ability to remain calm, organized, and professional in crisis situations.
• Current CPR/First Aid certification.

Lived experience with addiction and recovery is considered an asset.

As one of our founding team members, you'll help build a residential treatment program that values meaningful relationships, thoughtful practice, and collaborative care.

We offer:

• The opportunity to help build an innovative residential treatment program from the ground up.
• Ongoing supervision and professional development.
• A collaborative, interdisciplinary team environment.
• Health and dental benefits following the successful completion of a 90-day probationary period.
• The opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of people seeking recovery.

Ryding House is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect. We strongly encourage applications from members of equity-deserving communities, including Black, Indigenous, racialized, 2

SLGBTQ+, and disabled communities.

We also recognize the value of lived and living experience. We welcome applications from individuals whose experiences—including addiction and recovery, mental health, incarceration, precarious housing, and other experiences that shape people's interactions with health and social systems—inform their understanding of community, recovery, and relational care.

Accommodation is available throughout the recruitment process in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code.