Date Posted: 08/31/2023
Req ID: 33743
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Health & Counselling Ctr.
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00051267

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 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. We provide resources, support and educational opportunities that are accessible and inclusive. The HCC works closely with other departments across the University with the aim of ensuring students have timely access to quality medical and mental health supports.

Your opportunity:

Come join the Health and Counselling Team atUTM in this exciting opportunity to provide care for our students. The Wellness Navigation Advisor is a new role to the HCC. The incumbent is a Registered Health Professional, and is an integral member to support the stepped care model for student mental health at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Under clinical supervision of the Lead Counsellor, and general direction and supervision of the Assistant Director, HCC, the primary role of the incumbent is to provide 1:1 mental health navigation appointments to assist students with learning about, and making choices about, their preferred options for receiving mental health information and support. Duties will also include training and oversight of student navigation leaders as part of the health education and promotion services of the department. The Wellness Navigation Advisor will also be responsible for providing single session counselling (same-day), whenever a navigation appointment changes direction to personal counselling support needed, and/or during periods of peak demand for 1:1 counselling appointments. Other duties will include relationship building with campus and community supports and resources, initial screening and referrals to appropriate resources and services, risk assessment and safety planning in accordance with HCC protocols, and delivering Stepped Care and navigation workshops and training. Inherent in this role are the knowledge, skills and attitudes specific to critical thinking and decision making, ability to analyze and assess presenting mental health concerns and collaborate with the clinical team in the management of these mental health concerns. The incumbent to this role should have a working knowledge of the Stepped Care approach to supporting mental health.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Establishing priorities when booking appointments and drop-ins
• Screening and making referrals to appropriate resources and services
• Screening students to determine suitability for short-term counselling
• Assessing the mental health of clients
• Fostering positive relationships with campus resources and community health services providers
• Determining if there is a life-threatening situation, risk of self-harm or harm to others and independently applying appropriate interventions
• Determining the appropriate level of clinical intervention
• Providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy to individual students and/or groups ofstudents, including distressed students in crisis, and making referrals to appropriate resources.

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 clinical counselling/psychotherapy experience after completion of graduate degree requirements.
• Prior experience working with same-day or walk-in services
• Prior experience with crisis counselling and/or management
• Prior experience with case management, discharge planning, and broad knowledge of community resources and building relationships
• Prior training and focus of practice in working with individuals who have experienced trauma or have been diagnosed with PTSD
• Familiarity and experience with short-term, goal-oriented, focused therapeutic interventions
• Experienceproviding multi-cultural counselling required
• Understanding of the Stepped Care 2.0 model of mental health care
• Strong counselling, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
• Experience working within brief or short-term counselling model
• Good judgement and reliability
• Non-judgmental attitude
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong computer skills (e.g., MS Office, Internet, Outlook)

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience with the emerging adult population (17-25 year-olds)
• Prior experience with mental health or medical navigation (e.g., hospital-based setting, community-based resources or clinics)
• Prior experience working in a multi-disciplinary clinic or team
• Prior cultural competency training an asset
• Familiarity with electronic medical record keeping

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Decisive
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Resourceful

Closing Date: 09/17/2023, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
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: Student Services
Recruiter: Kirsten Archbell

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.