Date Posted: 10/25/2024
Req ID: 40408
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Health & Counselling Ctr.
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00043069

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 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) 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 over 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus. The HCC staff strive to empower students to make healthier, evidence-based choices to support their growth and development, assist students in their pursuit of academic success, and promote adoption of positive coping skills to foster greater resiliency in the pursuit of current and future goals. The HCC staff work closely with other departments across the University with the goal of ensuring students have timely access to quality medical and mental health supports.

Accessibility Services provides academic accommodations and services for students with disabilities and promotes a fully integrated university experience by ensuring that students have the opportunity to access and participate in all areas of student life. In partnership with a variety of Student Affairs and academic departments, Accessibility Services provides comprehensive programming throughout a student’s university career to foster greater resiliency and promote the development of knowledge and skills that are transferable to their future goals.

Your opportunity:

The Wellness & Resiliency Counsellor for Accessibility Services will perform individual and group counselling, workshops, and outreach within the Accessibility Services department, and under the immediate supervision of the Lead Counsellor, HCC. This is an embedded counselling position, working closely with Accessibility Advisors, and other staff within Accessibility Services to support the mental health and wellness of students with a diagnosed mental health disability, while also working under the same mandate as theHCC counselling staff. The general clinical approach will focus on the provision of short-term solution-focussed counselling, case management in complex mental health situations in consultation with other HCC staff, and assisting with referrals to otherresources within and outside the University to support the long-term goals and needs of students registered with Accessibility Services for their mental health needs. 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 interdisciplinary team in the management of these mental health concerns, and flexibility and decision making in fluid situations with unpredictable outcomes. Experience working with traditionally aged university students (emerging adults) and competency related to specific needs of this population is essential in this role (i.e., students with differing abilities).

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy for students and making referrals to appropriate resources
• Developing components of treatment plans based on appropriate therapeutic approaches
• Implementing clinical therapeutic plans
• Developing psychotherapeutically-appropriate materials for group counselling and in-take procedures for clients
• Developing and implementing new programs and initiatives independently
• Leading seminars and/or workshops
• Keeping well-informed on assessment and psychotherapeutic advances
• Serving as an expert resource to a group of professionals in the speciality

Essential Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in social work or counselling. Must be a current member, in good standing, within a Regulated Health Profession.
• Minimum five years (post-internship) full-time clinical counselling experience, with at least some experience in a Community Mental Health Setting, and/or Outpatient Mental Health Unit performing client intakes/assessments, crisis counselling, brief or short-term counselling to individuals, and psycho-educational workshops.
• Extensive experiencewith mental health and illness, behavioural issues, anger management, interpersonal violence, sexual violence and conflict resolution.
• Experience working with traditionally-aged university students (ie, 17-24 years old) is essential.
• Understanding how violence impacts persons with disabilities in a post-secondary context is expected.
• Demonstrated experience and exceptional knowledge of inter-cultural competency.
• Able to work in a highly diverse community with students from varied backgrounds and a variety of age groups, presenting with a range of difficulties and personal issues.
• Strong counselling, communication and organizational skills.
• Strong crisis intervention skills are necessary.
• Strong group facilitation skills are essential.
• Good judgment and sensitivity.
• Ability to work independently.
• Commitment to improving and enhancing the student experience.

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience working in a University/College is preferred.
• Experience with life coaching, mindful based therapies and alternative evidenced based therapies considered an asset.
• Prior experience working within an interdisciplinaryclinic is an asset.
• Familiarity with Electronic Medical Records (e.g., Accuro) is an asset.
• Knowledge of university and community mental health resources is an asset.

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Patient
• Perceptive
• Resourceful
• Team player

Closing Date: 11/05/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 15 -- $95,627. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $122,290. 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 14, 2025

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