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Integrated Child & Youth Clinical Counsellor - Exempt
Posted on
June 18, 2024
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Employer details
School District #75 (Mission)
Job details
Career Opportunity Integrated Child & Youth Clinical Counsellor - Exempt Role Mission Public School District is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded and shared lands of the St:lo people, which includes Sq'wlets, Leq':mel, Sema:th, Matheqw and Qw:ltl'el First Nations. <p>Mission Public Schools is dedicated to providing our students with an educational environment that nurtures the development of an Educated Citizen. Located in the beautiful Fraser Valley, Mission is a vibrant and diverse community with over 6200 students and 1000 employees. We are committed to providing a safe, equitable, and inclusive educational system for all students in our thirteen urban and rural elementary schools, two middle schools, one secondary school, distributed learning centre, alternative learning centre, and vocational and technical college. <p>Reporting and accountable to the Director of Student Services, the primary responsibilities of this position are to work as part of the multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional integrated child and youth team to provide therapeutic counselling services and school liaison support for children, youth and families experiencing mild/moderate mental health needs, and to manage and oversee the Youth Peer Support Worker position. This role includes outreach work with the community to support a cluster of Public, Independent and First Nations operated schools within the geographic region.<p>This role is also required to be available to perform time-sensitive work outside of regular (9-5) working hours as required, e.g., emergency counselling to children and youth and their families and does not follow the school calendar and works 12 months of the year. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES <p>Specific Responsibilities: Support the ICY team and schools served to mitigate and address factors which may precipitate mental health and substance use challenges for children and youth.<p> Provide child/youth and family therapeutic counselling through a lens of intervention and/or prevention support. Monitor the progress of child/youth on their case load.<p> Responsible for recruitment, selection and hiring of school-based employees assigned to the portfolio within the program<p> Perform the functions of a manager of employees in the Youth Peer Support Worker positions as a part of the ICY teams including:<p> Provide orientation, coaching, training and mentoring to direct reports<p> Manage employee conduct related matters including conduct employee relations related investigations with the human resources department, issues discipline and discharge of the employee when necessary<p> Manage employee attendance including informal and formal discussions with employees when absenteeism is continuously impacting service delivery; provides consideration to all applicable leave of absence requests <p> Manage employees including routine informal performance feedback, the development of employee work plans, and conduct staff performance review and related development plans reviews.<p> Interpret and comply with applicable collective agreements, participate in the grievance and arbitration process, and consult with human resources to provide feedback on collective bargaining initiatives necessary to support to the program and community<p> Manage assigned budget including staffing budgets allocated to the portfolio<p> Liaise between school staff and the ICY team, to represent and advocate for the needs of all children and youth (birth to 18) within the geographic area with a focus on prevention/early intervention wherever possible.<p> Provide support for the Youth Peer Support Worker to participate as a core ICY team member.<p> Attend and actively participate in integrated child and youth team meetings.<p> Provide oversight and supervision of the Youth Peer Support Worker to provide peer-base
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LocationMission, BC
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SalaryNot available
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Terms of employment
Permanent employmentFull time
- Start date
Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies
1 vacancy
- Source
ApplyToEducation
#2779161
Advertised until
2024-08-17
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