Counsellor

Job Posting Individual and Transitional Support Counsellor Status

• Full-time permanent, starts asap
• Location:
• In office
• Newmarket and work in
• York
• Region
• Community
• Salary: $61,000/year
• Reports to: Executive Director About WCYR The Women’s Centre of York Region supports women and their families to move toward lives of safety, confidence, independence, and well-being. Our work is grounded in trauma-informed, client-centred, feminist, and anti-oppressive practice. We recognize that supporting women often also means supporting the family system around them, including parenting relationships, couple dynamics, and children’s emotional well-being. The Women’s Centre of York Region (WCYR) is seeking a compassionate, skilled, and trauma-informed Counsellor to provide short-term Counselling and emotional support to women who are experiencing violence domestic or otherwise in areas such as problem solving, boundaries, grief, anger, abuse, trauma, self-esteem and struggles with family relationships. By working through these challenges, women improve the quality of their lives with the support of counsellors.
• Transitional
• Support
• Counselling: To provide emotional and practical support to women who have left or are considering leaving abusive relationships.
• Direct services: Be the main point person for all walk-in clients requiring same day counselling assistance Provide counselling to women and provide support and assistance in goal setting and in developing a plan of action through a safety plan and an assessment tool Assist women in carrying out their plans of action by assessing their progress, identifying challenges and providing strategies to resolve any difficulties in reaching their goals Provide community referrals and information Attend court case conferences and court hearings when required Assess a woman’s need for individual counselling and develop a counselling plan using a short-term counselling model Provide services through a combination of phone, virtual and in person modalities
• Indirect services: Provide support letters for women to other agencies (i. e. housing agencies, CAS employment agencies) Maintain accurate client case notes in database Attend and participate in clinical supervision Maintain and submit service data for the purpose of reporting, evaluation, and research Provide case consultation via meetings or telephone with other service professionals. Schedule appointments. Advocate to and liaise with other community agencies on behalf of clients to ensure the needs of clients are met. Add and remove clients from the
• Individual
• Counselling waitlist as space permits
• Caseload: The daily caseload will include three to four clients per day, with your average counselling session consisting of one hour. Maintain a caseload of 30+ clients at any given time, unless special circumstances prevent this, and is agreed upon with your direct supervisor
• Other responsibilities: Attend and participate in monthly staff meetings and clinical supervision Attend and participate in professional development training. Maintain registration with OCSWSSW and/or CRPO college, in good standing Contribute to the development of counselling policies and procedures and attend weekly counselling meetings. Support the Centre with ongoing program planning, development and evaluation. Funding Review Annually Responsible for participating in the understanding and review of funding each year and/or in the event the funding model, definition or target should require an amendment Support the organization in meeting it’s mission and vision (mandate)

How To Apply

Please submit your resume and cover letter to nivb@wcyr.ca with the subject line: Counsellor Application

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.