Child & Youth Counsellor- Full Time Indeterminate

The Child & Youth Care Counsellor (CYC) at Community Counselling Services (CCS) is responsible for providing comprehensive mental health and addictions services for clients falling under the responsibility of the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority (HRHSSA), primarily the communities of Hay River and Enterprise, but could also include Hay River Reserve on occasion. This position reports directly to the Clinical Supervisor, Community Counselling Services. Positions is located in Hay River, and serving a primary population of around 4000 people. Services are provided in accordance with the NWT Mental Health Act, Child and Family Services Act, the Community Counselling Program Standards, and the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association standards. Services are intended to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of residents and their community. More specifically, the Child and Youth Care Counsellor plays an integral role in supporting children and youth with complex mental health needs, and their families, to live successfully within their home, school and local community. The CYCC is responsible for implementing some specialized assessment and therapeutic programming within the daily life space of children and youth, within school and at times at community counselling environment.

Typically, the above qualifications would be attained by a Master’s degree in Child and Youth Counselling, Counselling Psychology with development, family, and/or child or art psychotherapy focus, Clinical Social Work or Education with a focus on therapeutic counselling.

In addition to an attractive salary, we offer a Northern Allowance of $2.33 per hour up to $4,538 per year, extended health and dental benefits, a generous relocation package, ample leaves, and abundant in-house training.  All job offers are subject to references, a satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including vulnerable sector search) and an Employee Health Risk Assessment. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

The Priority Hiring ranks shall be as follows:

• Indigenous Canadian, meaning a member of a Canadian First Nation, or an Inuk or Métis person;
• Long-Term Northern Resident, meaning a person who has lived at least half their lives in the Northwest Territories;
• People living with disabilities as defined in the Northwest Territories Human Rights Act, or members of the LGBTQA2S community;
• Northern Residents, meaning persons who have resided in the Northwest Territories for at least twelve (12) continuous months at the time of application.

Candidates shall be invited to identify their eligibility for Priority Hiring in the job posting at the time of application.

For full job description, including required knowledge, skills & abilities, please see job posting/job description on our website at www.hayriverhealth.ca under the ‘Careers’ section.

Applicants should send their resume via email to hrhssa_competitions@gov.nt.ca