Date Posted: 07/11/2024
Req ID: 38662
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Health & Counselling Ctr.
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00038524

Description:

About us:

U of T Mississauga (UTM)—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 human potential.

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 and discovery. 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 the Missinihe-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 who want 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 short-term psychotherapy (largely utilizing single-session approach) 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, psychiatric 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 HCC's Stepped Care model.

The incumbent will be providing counselling services within the HCC, as well as for the HCC 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. 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 will include:

• Providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy for students and making referrals to appropriate resources on and off campus (e.g., physicians, academic advisors, accessibility advisors, financial aid 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 psychotherapeutically-appropriate materials for group counselling
• Resolving problems that have been referred by other specialists
• Exercising extreme care to prevent serious physical or emotional injury or harm

Essential Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in social work or counselling/psychotherapy. Must be a current, fully independent member in good standing, within a Regulated Health Profession
• Minimum five years relevant independent mental health counselling experience, including work in crisis intervention.
• Experience with the young adult population (i.e., 17-25 year olds) is required
• Prior experience with crisis counselling, and with drop-in or same-day counselling
• Experience and demonstrated ability to deliver training and workshops to staff and/or students 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, evidence-based therapeutic interventions
• Experience providing multi-cultural mental health counselling is required
• Prior experience creating and facilitating group therapy treatment programs
• Prior experience with single-session therapy
• Strong counselling, communication (written and verbal), and organizational skills
• Demonstrated skill/aptitude in cross-cultural communication.
• Ability to work within a short-term model (i.e., 8-session limit)
• Good judgment and reliability
• Non-judgmental attitude
• Excellent time management/organizational skills.
• Strong computer skills (MS Office, internet, Outlook/e-mail, electronic medical records)

Assets (Nonessential):

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

To be successful in this role you will be:

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

Closing Date: 07/19/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term
Schedule:
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 15 -- $93,752 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $119,892. 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 November 2025.

The detailed job description is available upon request from the UTM HR office.