Counsellor - Social Worker

Job IDE5-5D-93-A8-C9-A1
CompanyCanuck Place
LocationVancouver
ProvinceBritish Columbia
Date Posted2019-10-16
Posted Until2019-11-08
Job TypeFixed-term
Job CategoryHealth Care
Description
The Social Worker is accountable for providing advanced therapeutic clinical counselling and consultative social work services that facilitate changes in coping styles, behaviors, attitudes, feelings and adaptive responses to an adverse life event. The Social Worker is also accountable for conducting comprehensive social and psychosocial assessments; providing advice to children, families, staff and community health professionals regarding applicable community resources in order to facilitate and enhance coping abilities; maintaining records and monitoring counselling services to ensure appropriate services are provided.
Education Requirements• Master’s Degree in Social Work with at least 5 years of recent related counselling and assessment experience in palliative care, including grief and bereavement, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
Essential SkillsQUALIFICATIONS INCLUDE
• Knowledge of systems theory; family/group/change therapy; counselling skills/clinical practice models; clinical social work and mental health counselling principles/methods/procedures/standards; crisis intervention techniques; psychodynamics of children and adolescents and their treatment strategies
• Social/psychosocial assessment, interviewing and psychological/developmental evaluation skills
• Understand and influence group/inter-group processes
• Establish rapport with children/families to explore issues that are beyond the initially presented concerns
• Plan, prioritize and organize workload
• Work collaboratively with interdisciplinary team
• Effectively deal with conflict situations
• Excellent interpersonal/written/verbal communication
• Maintain confidentiality in a work setting
• Listen and empathize with a diverse group of people
• Establish and maintain appropriate professional and personal boundaries.
Experience• Experience in the health care sector
• Registration with the BC Association of Social Workers or BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
LanguagesEnglish
How To ApplyFor details about this opportunity or to apply online:
www.GotoCareers.ca/CanuckPlace