Job Order Detail

Description

Position #: 182965

Expected Start Date: December 30, 2024

Union: HSAS

Facility: Nurses Alumni Wing

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: Mental Health Community Clinics & Programs - Youth Community Counselling

Type: Full-time regular

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days

Hours of Work: 224 hours in a 6 week rotation

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: Yes

Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Addictions Counsellor - Degree $34.509 to $42.199

Travel Required: No

Job Description: Under the direction of the Manager of the Youth Mental Health and Addictions team, and the Youth Addictions Supervisor, the Clinical Addictions Counsellor Youth provides ongoing assessment, counselling, case management, to youth struggling with substance use and their families. In addition the Clinical Addictions Counsellor Youth identifies and treats the effects of substance use of the youth and the family system as a whole. Using the skills and knowledge required for this position, the counsellor works with youth and parents to provide comprehensive evidence based treatment plan. The Youth Addictions Counsellor provides individual, group and family parent counselling.

Human Resources Exemption: No

Experience
- Supervised clinical practicum experience with youth/families
Education
- Bachelor of Chemical Dependency
Competencies
- Basic - Counseling skills
- Basic - Facilitation skills
- Basic - Assessment skills
Knowledge and Abilities
- Knowledge of the Youth Detox and Stabilization Act
- Knowledge in Motivational Assessment Process
- Ability to assess and treat clients as a part of the interdisciplinary MHAS team
- Knowledge of the Child and Family Service's Act
- Knowledge in adolescent development
- Knowledge in applicable Acts
- Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to treat effects of substance use on an adolescent and family unit
- Abili...
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