Addictions Counsellor

Your duties and responsibilities

• Ability to communicate in an empathic, compassionate, supportive, and skilled manner with clients while on shift.
• Provide assistance and support to residence activities and functions of day-to-day centre operations.
• Assist with client intake process.
• Provide counselling and conduct crisis management, and interventions as needed.
• Lead/co-lead psychoeducational and skill building groups for clients.
• Promote continual community building and the application of recovery-based skills.
• Monitor client behaviours and interactions while on shift, documenting observations and interactions in a timely and accurate manner.
• Report to the Program Manager and work alongside an interdisciplinary services team.
• Participate in regular interdisciplinary team meetings and ensure effective communication between/across shifts in support of individual client needs
• Participate in team building and service development.
• Ability to complete tasks independently

About the company

• At Canadian Addiction Treatment Centres, we strive to be leaders in the industry by creating access to best-in-class treatment to the communities that we serve.
• Our mission is to improve the lives of individuals living with the devastating effects of drug addiction.
• We focus on the quality of care and patient experience while providing an encouraging, compassionate and judgement-free environment.
• We apply a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach and strive to provide quality of care and patient experience while providing an encouraging, compassionate and judgement-free care environment.
• Each of our clinics offers integrated medical and pharmacy services specifically designed to engage patients in a manner that promotes the development of a strong therapeutic relationship between the patient and his/her CARE team.

Please visit www.canatc.ca for more information!

Canadian Addiction Treatment Centres remains an inclusive and equal opportunity employer committed to providing accommodations for all applicants upon request at any stage of the selection process in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code.

As part of our commitment to transparency and efficiency, we would like to inform you that we utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening and evaluation of applications.