Bilingual Mental Health Counselor - Ottawa, Canada - Centretown Community Health Centre

Centretown Community Health Centre

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Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

The Mental Health Counsellor provides individual and/or group counselling to individuals referred to CCHC's mental health counselling services.

Primary responsibilities include assessment, treatment planning, individual and/or group counselling, and information and referral when needed to allied health services.

The Mental Health Counsellors provide short term (up to 8 sessions) and single session/brief narrative focused therapy for adults age 18+.

CCHC Mental Health Counsellors work with diverse populations (newcomers, seniors, 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and adults) and are adept at providing service from an anti-racist and trauma informed lens.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the Mental Health Counsellor supports clients to acquire new knowledge, develop new skills, and find resilience and hope.

As an employee of the Centretown Community Health Centre, the incumbent reports to the Manager of the Mental Health and Addictions Team and through him/her/they to the Director of the MHA Team and the Executive Director.

Centretown Community Health Centre is committed to decreasing barriers to health and social services for marginalized communities and holds health equity and inclusion as core values.

Requirements:

Essential

Masters of Social Work, or Masters of Education (Counselling) or equivalent degree.
Registered or eligible for registration with CCAP or OASW/OCSWSSW/ or the College of Psychotherapy.
Minimum of two (2) years counselling experience.
Training and proficiency in counselling approaches (CBT; Narrative Therapy; Emotional Focused Therapy; MI)
Experience in shortterm, single session, strengthbased, narrative counselling approaches.
Solid knowledge of mental health and social services field, including addictions.
High sensitivity to psychosocial, social, mental health and health needs of our diverse 2SLGBT2QIA+ clients; e.g. older adults, people living on low income, people from diverse cultural groups, MSM, queer and trans people of colour
Knowledge of mental health issues and system/resources.
Crisis intervention skills.
Excellent Facilitation Skills and Experience developing and facilitating groups
Knowledge of antioppressive framework
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Flexible schedule, Ability to work some evenings and weekends.
Ability to work well independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team

Desirable

Is part of the 2SLGBT2SQIA+ community and comfortable in working within a "by the community for the community" framework
Working with diversity within the 2SLGBT2QIA+
Experience and skill in supervising student placements

Language designation
English - written and spoken

French - spoken

Ability to communicate in other languages is an asset.

How to "express an interest" for this opportunity:
Submit your letter of interest along with your resume on or before August 5, 2023 by 11:59pm.

Please note the following:

The file name for your resume should read: "(last name)_(first name)_ Resume"
The file name for your cover letter should read: "(last name)_(first name)_ Cover Letter"

We thank all applicants for their interest. Only applicants invited to an interview will be contacted.

Centretown CHC has a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, as such applicants must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and provide proof of vaccinations to be considered for employment.

Reasonable accommodation will be considered for persons with medical exemption or other exemptions under the Ontario Human Rights Code.

Le conseiller en santé mentale offre du counseling individuel ou en groupe à des personnes aiguillées vers les services de counseling en santé mentale du CSCC.

Ses principales fonctions sont l'évaluation, la planification de traitement, le counseling individuel en groupe et l'information et l'aiguillage vers d'autres services de santé le cas échéant.

Les conseillers en santé mentale offrent une thérapie à court terme (jusqu' a 8 séances) et une séance unique brèves narration axée sur les adultes de 18 ans et plus.

Les conseillers en santé mentale du CSCC travaillent avec diverse populations (nouveaux arrivants, personnes âgées, jeunes et adultes 2LGBTQIA+) et sont aptes à fournir des services dans une optique antiraciste te tenant compte des traumatismes.

Travaillant au sein d'une équipe multidisciplinaire le conseiller en santé mentale aide les clients à acquérir de nouvelles connaissance, développée de nouvelles compétences et à trouver la résilience et l'espoir.

Comme un employé du centre de santé communautaire du centre-ville le titulaire releve du gestionnaire de l'équipe de santé mentale et dépendances et par lui au Directeur de l'équipe de santé mentale et dépendances et au Directeur général.

Le centre de santé communautaire du centre-ville s'est engagé à réduire les barrières aux services de santé sociaux pour les