Clinical Counsellor - Toronto, Canada - Friends of Ruby
Description
Friends of Ruby
Friends of Ruby is dedicated to the journey and well-being of 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, aged 16-29 through mental health services, social services, and housing.
The Centre provides access to barrier-free counselling and therapeutic groups, case management and a drop-in space with hot meals, community, and comprehensive programming.
The Home provides transitional and emergency housing, as well as mental health and life-skills to support youth moving towards independent living.
Friends of Ruby recognize that a diverse work force is critical to accomplishing our mission.Our goal is to attract, develop, and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives.
Position Summary
We are looking for a talented clinician who identifies as a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community to provide mental health and counselling support to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, including those with intersectional identities of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC).
Reporting to the Clinical Program Manager, the Clinical Counsellor will provide single session and short-term counselling, along with utilizing ongoing counselling skills to youth, using evidence-based practices aligned with needs identified at the time of intake and assessment to Friends of Ruby.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Utilizing strengths-based, trauma-informed and harm reduction approaches, the Clinical Counsellor will:
- Formulate treatment plans and provide therapeutic counselling using a range of evidence-based practices, including but not limited to MBCT, DBT, ACT, MBSR, Trauma-informed Counselling, Participant-Centred Therapies and/or Brief Solution Focused Therapy
- Provide shortterm counselling, including the delivery of a Brief Solution Focused Therapy pilot project
- Using a harm reduction and traumainformed approach, create safety plans with 2SLGBTQIA+and BIPOC participants assessing immediate and longerterm needs and goals
- Working from a multidisciplinary framework partner with psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to best meet the needs of 2SLGBTQIA+ youth
- Connect participants to other Friends of Ruby's programs when appropriate and liaise with peers from those programs to best support 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC participants to meet their needs; refer to external service providers as needed
- Facilitate Friends of Ruby's group counselling and therapeutic programs, including but not limited to DBT skills group, Skills for Safer Living and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
- Complete participants Intake Assessments
- Actively participate in team meetings and individual/group clinical supervision
- Support students, ensuring confidentiality, collection of data and completion of case file documentation as required
- Occasionally support the overseeing of the Drop In area and monitor the overall physical and emotional safety of the space; managing potentially escalating situations
- Provide sameday crisis counselling, completing risk assessments and safety planning
- Manage crisis, recognize and provide appropriate intervention as needed. Address youth conflict directly and respectfully. Teach and model effective problem solving and conflict negotiation
- Participate in the oncall crisis line rotation
- Work collaboratively with other teams in matters relating to communication, evaluation and different initiatives in support of the Organization's mission
- Maintain clinical records and completion of administrative tasks
- And other duties, as directed, for the delivery of the department's strategic priorities and/or to meet key deadlines
Skills and Experiences
- Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Counselling Psychology, or in a related field and/or comparable work experience
- Membership in good standing with the college of Social Workers and Social Service Workers or College of Registered Psychotherapists (RSW or RP), or other counselling college
- Provide trauma informed individual and group therapeutic services
- 35 years of experience providing clinical counselling and support to 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC youth in issues related to mental health, trauma, violence, selfinjurious behavior, transitioning and/or coming out, substance use, family support and relationships
- Demonstrated commitment to social justice, harm reduction, antiracism, antioppression, strengthsbased, traumainformed, participantcentered practices and ability to implement them in work with 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC youth
- Must be able to work in the following 3 modalities: shortfocused, group, and individual
- Experience in group facilitation, preferably utilizing Evidence B
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