Counsellor to Students

The Michener Institute of Education seeks to hire a Counsellor for Students. Reporting to the VP Students the Counsellor is an integral member of the Student Success team. The Counsellor is responsible for providing a wide range of academic and personal services and supports to post-secondary students enrolled in allied health programming.  The counsellor will play a crucial role in supporting our students mental health offering guidance and fostering a positive and nurturing environment conducive to their personal and academic growth. This includes developing and supporting workshops for students and staff. Counsellors should have demonstrated experience in assessing numerous issues and concerns that vary in degrees of complexity and implement relevant strategies and techniques to address identified issues. Counsellors may practice multiple modalities however of special interest would be experience in anti-oppressive practice as well as psychodynamic CBT DBT trauma-informed and other somatic counselling models.

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Qualifications :

• Masters degree in counselling (in Education Psychology or Social Work).
• Membership in a professional counselling organization such as the CRPO CCPA CASWE OAMHP
• Strong working knowledge of the key issues and challenges of post-secondary students
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Satisfactory Canadian Police Clearance document required upon hire.

Recommended:

• Conduct group counseling sessions on topics such as stress management during practical assessments coping strategies assertiveness skills in a health care environment
• Knowledge of common transition challenges for young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 (the time of early on-set psychological challenges)
• High levels of skills in assessing supporting and engaging in short to medium-term counselling with students experiencing major depressive disorder generalized anxiety panic attacks social anxiety disordered eating borderline personality disorder bi-polar disorder (I and II) grief family and relationship challenges
• Commitment to some on-site counselling
• Experience (or openness to) supervising beginning counsellors and student therapists
• Knowledge and experience working with post-secondary environment school stresses such ADHD perfectionism social anxiety exam stress life transition stress and culture shock
• Five years of counselling experience including risk assessment training

Additional Information :

Why join Michener

Working at The Michener Institute means that you are building a career alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals and educators in Canada. Michener is integrated with UHN Canadas #1 hospital and the worlds #1 publicly funded hospital and offers a wide range of benefits programs and perks allowing you to find value where it matters most to you now and throughout your career at Michener.

• Extended Health Care (including paramedical) coverage
• Dental coverage
• Employee Assistance Program
• Disability and Life Insurance
• Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up
• Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP  Development funding for courses conferences seminars and textbooks
• Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
• A flexible work environment
• Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel restaurants parking phone plans auto insurance discounts on-site gym etc.)

Closing Date: Until Filled

Qualified applicants are invited to submit a detailed resume and cover letter.

For further information on The Michener Institute please visit our website at .

The Michener Institute is publicly funded by the Ministry of health and is a respectful caring and inclusive workplace. We are committed to championing accessibility diversity and equal opportunity.

We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process providing the applicant has met the Bona-fide requirements for the open position. Applicants need to make their requirements known when contacted.

While we thank all applicants only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Part-time