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This position is to hire a permanent full-time (75 hours biweekly) Child, Youth and Family Clinical Counsellor working in Haines Junction and surrounding communities.
An eligibility list will be established and will be used in other communities.
Haines Junction
Haines Junction lies on the edge of a vast and spectacular wilderness, and is a gateway to the Kluane National Park and Reserve. The community lies within the traditional territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, Southern Tutchone people who have lived in the area for thousands of years.
The Shadhäla Äshèyi yè Kwädän (Champagne and Aishihik First Nations or CAFN) is a self-governing First Nation located in the Yukon Territory and northwest British Columbia, Canada.
The Shadhäla Äshèyi yè Kwädän (CAFN) homeland is a land of kwata (forests), dhal (mountains), taga (rivers), man (lakes) and tan shį (glaciers), with spectacular scenery and diverse resources and cultural riches. The land has offered mbat (food), ur (clothing) and kų (house, shelter) to CAFN ancestors for many generations.
CAFN has more than 1,200 Dän (people) and is one of the largest of the 14 Yukon First Nations. The CAFN Traditional Territory spans 41,000 square kilometers in total (29,000 in the Yukon and 12,000 in British Columbia). The eastern edge of CAFN’s Traditional Territory lies in the Yukon River watershed, while the larger, westerly portion lies in the Alsek River watershed which flows into the Gulf of Alaska. Much of Kluane National Park and Reserve and all of Tatshenshini-Alsek Park (BC) are part of CAFN’s Traditional Territory.
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Your Role / Responsibilities
Working as a member of the Mental Wellness and Substance Use team, you will provide comprehensive assessment, treatment services, and case management to children/youth clients, and their families, struggling with any combination of mental health problems, diagnosed mental illness, and/or problematic substance use and addiction. Within the context of a client centered care model, you will perform duties that support assessment, treatment planning, crisis intervention, after care services, consultation, and individual counselling and group programming to facilitate and coordinate client access to services.
You will work as part of a team of mental wellness professionals, and will have responsibility to provide appropriate and specialized assessment and treatment services for a full range of presenting issues, including concurrent disorders. As part of a holistic approach to mental wellness, you will also provide appropriate treatment and supports for children, youth, and their families that will include physical and emotional health, and provides psychodynamic, cognitive and behavioural therapy, group counselling and psychoeducation according to a variety of theoretical models and best practices.
As part of an interdisciplinary mental wellness team, that may include providers from other program/organization areas, you will participate in case conferences/meetings with clients, family, service providers and members of the interdisciplinary team; and will collaborate and provide clinical support to colleagues to meet the holistic needs of the child and youth population serviced and to provide integration and continuity across the care continuum.
For more information about the hiring process, please contact Kelly Jiang, Human Resources at [email protected].
For more information about this position, please contact Kristy Petovello, Clinical Supervisor of MWSU Community Hubs at [email protected].
Please do not email resumes to the email address above; resumes may only be accepted through E-Recruitment. Link to create your account to apply: here
Essential Qualification
Please submit your resume clearly demonstrating how your work experiences and related duties align with the essential qualifications listed below. Ensure a month/year format is used throughout your resume. Please note that selection for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide in your resume.
Masters degree in Social Sciences, Social Work, Psychology, or other related discipline;
Considerable experience providing mental health, trauma and addiction services to children and youth;
Experience working in collaboration with First Nation Governments, and/or other community partners, to provide mental health and substance use services to both indigenous and non-indigenous children, youth and families preferably in a rural setting;
Experience providing clinical counselling in both individual and group formats.
Desired Knowledge, Skills and Suitability
Candidates should have and maybe assessed on:
Care for self and others in a stressful situation
Experience working with Indigenous communities
Must be able to demonstrate sound judgement, tact, effective interpersonal skills
Ability to work effectively in a team environment and independently
Effective written and oral communication; able to meet and deal with public
Ability to empathize and work constructively with children, youth, their families and colleagues
Ability to adapt and put into practice instruction on therapy
Understanding of collaborative health care delivery systems, and the continuum of services available to clients at different stages of their lives (i.e., stages of change model)
Ability to work collaboratively with community partners and stakeholders to build capacity, and develop and deliver programming
Ability to provide effective screening, mental health and addiction bio-psycho-social assessments, treatment planning and case formulations while working from a harm reduction and client/family/community-centred service delivery model
Ability to work with clients in both individual and group formats
Additional Information
Condition of Employment: Valid Driver’s Licence, First Aide Certificate, TB Screening and WHMIS 2015
Job Requirement: Travel to surrounding communities
Eligibility List
12 months
Post Date
23 February 2022
Close Date
9 March 2022
