(TEMPORARY FULL TIME) CYC2-CHILD AND YOUTH COUNSELLOR - EATING DISORDERS UNIT

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences • Whitby, ON

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About The Position

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences is seeking a Child and Youth Counsellor (CYC) to work with adolescents who have complex eating disorders and other comorbid mental illnesses. The role involves working in partnership with a multidisciplinary team, families, and community agencies to help patients learn about their illness, enhance independence and coping skills, and develop tools for community integration through peer interaction, group treatment, and individual therapy. The CYC will provide evaluation, assessment, and therapeutic interventions using a strength-based model and modern mental health techniques within a psychiatric setting. This role fosters a culture of trust, leadership, dependability, and accountability by providing a safe, healthy, and stimulating environment for adolescents. The CYC will assist in creating management programs for individuals and groups to stabilize psychiatric disorders, provide life skills training, support co-workers in various therapeutic settings, use techniques to diffuse extreme behaviors, manage psychiatric crises, and assess mental status. Some travel may be required.

Requirements

• Child and Youth Worker Diploma.
• OACYC membership in good standing.
• Certification in First Aid and CPR.
• CPR Level HCP (Health Care Provider)
• Demonstrated experience working with developmental, physically and emotionally disturbed adolescents.
• Demonstrated knowledge of normal and abnormal development and treatment approaches (i.e. behaviour management).
• Demonstrated knowledge of individual, family and group assessment and counseling.
• Demonstrated knowledge of psychiatric disorders (specifically OCD, and PTSD)
• Demonstrated knowledge of crisis intervention techniques.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Child and Family Services Act, Mental Health, and relevant policies and legislation, such as the Mental Health Act and PHIPA
• Demonstrated working knowledge/experience with computers
• Proven excellent interpersonal skills and effective oral/written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership.
• Demonstrated excellent organizational, analytical, prioritization, problem-solving, decision-making, critical thinking and conflict resolution abilities.
• Ability to perform the physical demands of the position.
• Proven good attendance record with the capability of maintaining this same standard.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred knowledge and experience with eating disorders
• Preferred knowledge in CBT and/or DBT
• Meditech experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide evaluation, assessment, and therapeutic interventions in a strength-based model of care incorporating modern mental health techniques and the principals of Child and Youth Counseling in a psychiatric setting.
• Foster a culture of trust, leadership, dependability and accountability in providing a safe, healthy and stimulating environment for adolescents.
• Assist in creating management programs for individuals and groups, in order to stabilize a variety of psychiatric disorders.
• Provide life skills training through formalized instructions and example.
• Assist co-workers in a classroom, day treatment setting, family therapy or other on-going therapies.
• Use appropriate techniques to diffuse extremes in behavior.
• Manage psychiatric crisis and assess mental status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree