Job Counselor - Penticton, BC, Canada - Okanagan College

Description

OKANAGAN COLLEGE
Okanagan College transforms lives and communities. We are one of Canada's leading colleges. We work and learn in a welcoming and caring culture. We serve, lead and anticipate the social, economic and environmental needs of communities.
Counselling
A counsellor should be qualified to provide personal, academic success, and career counselling.

The professional roles and responsibilities of a non-instructional faculty member include an awareness of current scholarship and continuing mastery in one's field, professional duties, professional development, and service.

In addition, duties and responsibilities may include scholarly activity.

The minimum qualification is a Master's degree, or equivalent in a counselling or related discipline with supervised clinical experience at the graduate level.

Registration or eligibility for registration with degree-appropriate governing or legal body is required (e.g. BCACC, CCPA, BC College of Social Workers, BC College of Psychologists).
Clinical counselling experience in a post-secondary environment is preferred. An active profile in scholarship, research and creative activity is preferred.
Workload assignments may include clinical practice, teaching, scholarship and community service.

The professional duties of a counsellor may include all or any of the following: personal, career and academic success counselling services; testing and psycho-educational assessment; practicum and internship supervision; community and professional education; consultation for and liaison with Okanagan College departments, faculty and staff, as well as community representatives and groups; administrative duties; regional campus duties that are congruent with the counselling discipline; and other ancillary counselling and advisory functions.

Professional development is activity intended to promote teaching excellence, subject area competence and technical competence in an area of professional or instructional expertise.

participation in professional or academic organizations; application of the employee's academic or professional competence or expertise in the community at large; representing Okanagan College at other functions, administrative duties and other duties.

Scholarly activity includes scholarship, research and creative activities.

Scholarship involves oral or written activities that reflect a thorough and critical collection of knowledge of one's profession or discipline.

Creative activities involve creative practice, exhibition, performance, composition, multimedia presentations and other similar activities that reflect applied practice of one's profession or discipline.

individual and group counselling
- career, academic success, and personal counselling
- outreach and referral

• Faculty
• Fulltime Term

Monday-Friday, 35 hours per week


Annual Salary/Hourly Rate:

Note:
Part-time Term and summer appointments subject to adjustment factors as per the collective agreement
To apply for this position, please go to our employment site: and complete an on-line application.
All applications must be submitted through our employment site to be considered.

We welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black People, members of racialized groups/visible minorities, people with disabilities and people with diverse gender identities or expressions.

People with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, .