Child & Family Clinician - Infant, Child, Youth & - Mississauga, Canada - EveryMind
Description
CHILD AND FAMILY CLINICIAN
INFANT, CHILD, YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES (ICYF)
Contract - 12 months
Full Time (37.5 hours/week)
EveryMind (formerly Peel Children's Centre) is looking for highly skilled, experienced, and enthusiastic mental health professionals to work with various programs and services to provide a continuum of mental health interventions to children/youth and their families in a contractual role.
EveryMind is an accredited children's mental health centre that provides a continuum of high-quality mental health services for children, youth and their families who are experiencing social, emotional and/or behavioural challenges.
Summary of Infant, Child, Youth and Family (ICYF) Counselling & Therapy Services
The Child and Family Clinician will provide a continuum of mental health interventions, ranging from brief interventions with individual children/youth and/or their caregivers, and short-term family counseling, to therapeutic groups with children/youth and caregivers.
Additionally, this service will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure the mental health needs of children/youth and families in the Peel community are being addressed.
This is a 12 -month contract position.
Salary - 5-step range of $68,965 - $80,680 over 5 years
Please note that hiring salaries are commensurate with experience and generally start at the beginning of the range.
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Why work at EveryMind?_**- Work for an organization that is the
_lead agency_ in child and youth mental health services for Region of Peel, known for our excellence in providing quality services.
- Contribute to the mental health & wellbeing of children and youth.
- Enjoy exceptional training and development opportunities.
- The workplace offers a strong wellness focus, paid personal leave days, in addition to 11 paid public holidays, 4% of your salary in lieu of vacation, and 4% of your salary in lieu of benefits.
_ Hybrid work_ is available in many of our services, with the opportunity to work remotely from home; there is flexibility to work in-office, in-home and/or in community to best meet client and family preferences/needs.
- Company Laptops and cellphones are provided to employees.
- Free, confidential 24/7 counselling and mental health support for employees and their family members via our Employee and Family Assistance Program is available.
- A workplace culture that embraces
_Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Antiracism (DEIA)_ with employeeled internal committees focusing on Black Engagement, LGBTQ2S, Indigenous Knowledge is important to EveryMind. - Opportunities to join
_staff forums_ on DEIA and other issues are available at EveryMind.
Responsibilities:
The incumbent will:
- Provide skilled assessments, formulations, and treatment services to children/youth and their families/caregivers by employing a variety of systemic and evidencebased/evidencedinformed treatment approaches (including CBT, Motivational Interviewing, DBT skills, and the traumainformed as well as attachmentinformed frameworks) to enhance parent/family and child/youth interactions and functioning at home, in school and in community;
- Provide single session mental health consultation sessions to children, youth and their caregivers with Tangerine Walk-In Counselling program;
- Develop, implement and regularly evaluate treatment plans according to individual client and family/caregiver needs, goals, strengths and cultural values;
- Facilitate the enhancement of the child and family's informal and formal supports;
- Effectively design and implement a holistic crisis plan to ensure client safety and wellbeing;
- Provide case management and outreach services to ensure coordination and delivery of services that meet changing needs of clients and families;
- Provide transitional support and discharge planning to clients exiting service to ensure sustainability of treatment gains;
- Provide group services as required;
- Provide inperson, virtual and telephone counselling sessions as needed;
- Demonstrate a passion for working with children and families and possess working knowledge of social service, educational, and employment systems and resources within Peel;
- Participate as an active member of a multidisciplinary team in clinical team meetings, program and agency level meetings;
- Maintain comprehensive case records and data for all clients in accordance with the organizations' standards and timelines.
Skills and Qualifications
- Possess a Master's Degree in Social Work, Counselling Psychology or health related field with a minimum of three years experience in direct service to children and families
OR Bachelor's Degree in Social Work/ health related field with a minimum of 5
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