Counsellor - Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program (PEDPRP)

Position Summary

This position is responsible for providing individual and group counselling for clients of the Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program in alignment with feminist counselling principles and WHC vision, mission and values.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, organized and detail-oriented individual. The successful candidate will possess excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills and be able to work to strict deadlines while contributing to a professional working environment.

• Provide individual therapeutic counselling
• Provide therapeutic group counselling and workshops
• Maintain a strong clinical knowledge base to provide relevant support to clients and accurately assess client needs
• Assume responsibility for clinical area and provide relevant and timely comprehensive client service in program area
• Connect clients with appropriate resources
• Ensure accurate standardized records are created and maintained; provide relevant statistical information to management
• Participate in clinical supervision and service team meetings
• Maintain strong external and community connections by participating in relevant community networks, committees and in speaking engagements where program area expertise is an asset.

Candidates must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline and an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 3 years’ experience providing clinically supervised therapeutic counselling.
• Experience developing and facilitating groups.
• Demonstrated understanding of weight bias and body positive perspectives.
• Satisfactory Criminal Record check and Child Abuse Registry check.
• Must be legally able to work in Canada

Assets:

• Relevant Master’s Degree, MSW, MMFT or related degree
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working with youth and families
• Minimum 3 years’ experience providing therapeutic individual, family and group counselling
• Values aligned with Harm Reduction, Anti-oppression, and Healing Centred models of care.
• Familiarity with a weight neutral approach to health care
• Knowledge of the ways in which BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA communities are distinctly impacted by eating disorders including of connections between food, culture, family and community and ideas and beliefs about disordered eating and body image
• Understanding of the current, historical, and intergenerational impact of settler colonialism and the connection to disordered eating and body image
• Meaningful, integrated connections to communities that are underserved by the Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program.
• Proficiency in both official languages or other language.