• Job Description

  Req#: 33807

  Date Posted: 09/07/2023
  Req ID: 33807
  Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
  Department: UTM: Health & Counselling Ctr.
  Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
  Position Number: 00030766

  Description:

  About us:
  
  U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of humanpotential.
  
  Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning anddiscovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.
  
  This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside theMissinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those whowant to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.
  
  The Health & Counselling Centre (HCC) at UTM is a multi-disciplinary health clinic that provides student-friendly medical care, mental health counselling, and health education and promotion programs and services to a diverse student population of undergraduate and graduate students. The HCC strives to empower students to make healthier, evidence-based choices to support their growth and development, assists students in their pursuit of academic success, and promotes adoption of positive coping skills to foster greater resiliency in the pursuit of current and future goals. The HCC works closely with other departments across the University with the goal of ensuring students have timely access to quality medical and mental health supports.
  
  Your opportunity:
  
  Under general direction of the Lead Counsellor, Health & Counselling Centre, the incumbent is responsible for providing counselling and shortterm psychotherapy to undergraduate and graduate students of diverse ages, economic levels and cultural backgrounds who are experiencing emotional and psychological difficulties (e.g., family problems, interpersonal conflicts, anxiety, low self-esteem) using individual, couple, or group counselling methods. The incumbent must assess
  and refer, as appropriate, to community resources and available supports for students; act as a resource for other student service professionals and make referrals to other areas/resources within UTM (i.e. Accessibility Services, academic advising, career counselling, Academic Skills Centre), the University and the community; and participate in Orientation and other outreach programs as required. The incumbent will also assist students to select options for their mental health care using the Stepped Care model.
  
  The incumbent will be providing counselling services within the HCC, as well as while on location within other departments on campus. The incumbent will be responsible for working independently on outreach initiatives specific to the student populations in these departments to increase access to supports on and off campus, and assist with the transition to student life at UTM, as well as within academic departments on campus. There will be opportunities to deliver information on wellness and resiliency through webinars and workshops, and to participate in
  health promotion activities delivered by the HCC.
  
  Your responsibilities willinclude:

  • Providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy for students and making referrals to appropriate resources on and off campus (e.g., physicians, academic advisors, financial aid advisors, Accessibility advisors, career advisors, etc).
  • Providing initial clinical support and/or counselling to distressed students in crisis and making referrals to appropriate resources
  • Screening students to determine suitability for short-term counselling
  • Assessing the mental health of clients
  • Determining if there is a life-threatening situation, risk of self-harm or harm to others and independently applying appropriate interventions
  • Developing components of treatment plans based on appropriate therapeutic approaches
  • Developing psychotherapeutically-appropriate materials for group counselling and intake procedures for clients
  • Updating and maintaining patient records

  Essential Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in social work or counselling/psychotherapy or acceptable combination of equivalent experience. Must be a current member, in good standing, within a Regulated Health Profession.
  • Minimum five years of independent clinical experience, including experience in an outpatient or Community setting
  • Experience with the young adult population (17-25 year-olds) is required.
  • Prior experience with crisis counselling, and with drop-in or same-day counselling
  • Prior experience providing single-session therapy
  • Experience and demonstrated ability to deliver training and workshops on mental health-related topics
  • Prior training and focus of practice in working with individuals who have experienced trauma or have been diagnosed with PTSD required.
  • Familiarity and experience with short-term, goal-oriented, focused therapeutic interventions.
  • Experience providing multi-cultural counselling required.
  • Prior experience developing and facilitating group therapy programs
  • Strong counselling, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
  • Experience working within short-term counselling model (i.e., 8-session limit)
  • Good judgment and reliability.
  • Non-judgmental attitude.
  • Excellent time management and organizational skills
  • Strong computer skills (e.g., MS Office, Internet, Outlook), and comfortable with virtual presenting and technology

  
  Assets (Nonessential):

  • Prior cultural competency training an asset.
  • Experience delivering Mindfulness Meditation sessions an asset
  • Familiarity with electronic medical record keeping an asset.
  • Prior experience working within amulti-disciplinary treatment team and/or within a primary care environment an asset
  • Prior experience and familiarity with the Stepped Care model for mental health is an asset

  
  To be successful in this role you will be:

  • Approachable
  • Communicator
  • Diplomatic
  • Patient
  • Perceptive
  • Team player

  Closing Date: 09/18/2023, 11:59PM ET
  Employee Group: USW
  Appointment Type: Budget - Term
  Schedule: Full-Time
  Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
  USW Pay Band 15 -- $86,011 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $109,993. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
  Job Category: Health & Wellbeing
  Recruiter: Jessica Halteh

  Lived Experience Statement
  Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

  This is a term position ending August 30, 2024.

  This role is not currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline

• About the company

  The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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