Personal Counsellor/mental Health Worker - Mississauga, Canada - University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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Mississauga, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Date Posted:08/15/2023

Req ID: 33440

Faculty/Division:
UofT Mississauga

Department:

UTM:
Health & Counselling Ctr.

Campus:
University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)

Position Number:

Description:

About us:

U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada's top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario's booming Peel Region—is one of the world's great catalysts of humanpotential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care.

We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship.

Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning anddiscovery.

We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside theMissinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

We're thrilled to welcome those whowant to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

The Health & Counselling Centre (HCC) at UTM is a multi-disciplinary health clinic that provides student-friendly medical care, mental health counselling, and health education and promotion programs and services to a diverse student population of undergraduate and graduate students.

The HCC strives to empower students to make healthier, evidence-based choices to support their growth and development, assists students in their pursuit of academic success, and promotes adoption of positive coping skills to foster greater resiliency in the pursuit of current and future goals.

The HCC works closely with other departments across the University with the goal of ensuring students have timely access to quality medical and mental health supports.

Your opportunity:

Under general direction of the Lead Counsellor, Health & Counselling Centre, the incumbent is responsible for providing counselling and shortterm psychotherapy to undergraduate and graduate students of diverse ages, economic levels and cultural backgrounds who are experiencing emotional and psychological difficulties (e.g., family problems, interpersonal conflicts, anxiety, low self-esteem) using individual, couple, or group counselling methods.

The incumbent must assess
and refer, as appropriate, to community resources and available supports for students; act as a resource for other student service professionals and make referrals to other areas/resources within UTM (i.e. Accessibility Services, academic advising, career counselling, Academic Skills Centre), the University and the community; and participate in Orientation and other outreach programs as required. The incumbent will also assist students to select options for their mental health care using the Stepped Care model.

The incumbent will be providing counselling services within the HCC, as well as while on location within other departments on campus.

The incumbent will be responsible for working independently on outreach initiatives specific to the student populations in these departments to increase access to supports on and off campus, and assist with the transition to student life at UTM, as well as within academic departments on campus.

There will be opportunities to deliver information on wellness and resiliency through webinars and workshops, and to participate in
health promotion activities delivered by the HCC.

Your responsibilities willinclude:

Providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy for students and making referrals to appropriate resources on and off campus (e.g., physicians, academic advisors, financial aid advisors, Accessibility advisors, career advisors, etc).
Providing initial clinical support and/or counselling to distressed students in crisis and making referrals to appropriate resources
Screening students to determine suitability for shortterm counselling
Assessing the mental health of clients
Developing components of treatment plans based on appropriate therapeutic approaches
Developing psychotherapeuticallyappropriate materials for group counselling and intake procedures for clients
Updating and maintaining patient records

Essential Qualifications:

Master's Degree in social work or counselling/psychotherapy or acceptable combination of equivalent experience. Must be a current member, in good standing, within a Regulated Health Profession.
Minimum five years of independent clinical experience, including experience in an outpatient or Community setting
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