Counsellor for Indigenous Students, Student Counselling Services

Location

Winnipeg, MB | Canada

Job description

Student Counselling Services at the University of Winnipeg seeks a  Counsellor for Indigenous Students to provide a wide variety of personal counselling services to students within a diverse, academic setting. This is a probationary/continuing appointment. * Preference will be given to qualified Indigenous candidates.*

Student Counselling Services offers a goal-oriented, time-limited service where students can address difficulties and dilemmas that impact their sense of well-being during their university studies. Student Counselling Services provides individual and small group counselling services and a crisis response, as needed, to students who are dealing with personal and mental health issues.  Counsellors work within a shared care, collaborative model along with clinicians from other agencies.

Responsibilities:

• Provides short term individual and group counselling for students at the University of Winnipeg with a primary focus on supporting Indigenous students and with an understanding of Indigenous perspectives and the diverse cultural backgrounds of Indigenous students.
• Provides intake, assessment, counselling and care planning, while honouring Indigenous experience, knowledge and healing practices.
• Meets with students in person as well as over zoom and provides scheduled and walk-in sessions.
• Demonstrates a commitment to a student-centred, trauma informed and culturally sensitive, anti-oppressive, inclusive and holistic framework with a particular understanding of the intergenerational effects of historic harms against Indigenous people.
• Responds to students in distress or crisis, and assesses, intervenes and liaises as required.
• Refers students to internal and external supports or services.
• Provides advocacy on behalf of students’ expressed needs with internal and external contacts.
• Provides support, consultation, clinical intervention around disclosures of sexual violence.
• Offers consultation to staff and faculty related to student mental health and well-being.
• Provides support, consultation and clinical intervention during critical incidences on campus as required.
• Actively participates on committees.
• Participates in regular formal and informal peer consultation and participates in regular clinical supervision with the Clinical Coordinator/Counsellor.
• Maintains confidential documentation according to professional and ethical standards.
• Collaborates to evaluate and enhance counselling services, processes and resources.  
• Works closely with Aboriginal Student Services Centre (ASSC) attending and participating in cultural and other events.
• Networks and works collaboratively with other Student Services areas and with off campus resources.
• Responds to requests and offers mental health and wellbeing education to students, faculty, staff in the form of awareness building campaigns, workshops, presentations, and meetings.
• Consults with staff, faculty, students and off-campus community agencies in building awareness and capacity regarding mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous students.
• Offers support and mentoring to student groups as needed.
• Schedules appointments, manages calendar of appointments, utilizes case management software to record case notes and documentation.
• Collects monthly statistics and provides them to Clinical Coordinator/Counsellor.

Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in Clinical Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, or another related discipline required.
• Training in crisis response, risk assessment, sexual violence and suicide intervention required.
• Must be licensed/registered professional.
• Minimum of three years clinical experience. 
• Deep understanding of challenges faced by Indigenous students.
• Commitment to supporting all students, including Indigenous students and students from international, immigrant, refugee and inner-city communities, persons with disabilities, persons within LBGTTQ* communities and students living in residences.
• Experience with and practice of Indigenous history, culture, and knowledge systems.
• Experience in Indigenous community relationship building practices and protocols.
• Knowledge and experience relating to Indigenous approaches to healing.
• Experience counselling populations presenting a vast diversity of issues and have a demonstrated ability to respond effectively to any presenting issue including suicide, trauma and crisis.
• Experience working from a culturally sensitive, anti-oppressive, trauma informed, student-centred perspective.
• Ability to adapt clinical approaches to meet the needs of students from various Indigenous backgrounds.
• Experience working with diverse and marginalized persons and communities.
• Experience counselling young adults.
• Experience developing and facilitating workshops, groups and presentations.
• Experience in navigating local health and social service community resources with a particular focus on resources serving members of Indigenous communities. 
• Ability to speak an Indigenous language is an asset.
• Ability to facilitate a time-limited, goal-oriented counselling process with students in response to presenting issues.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to synthesize complex issues.
• Thorough knowledge of literature underpinning counselling field required.
• Ability to effectively manage competing priorities.
• Awareness and practice of code of ethics.
• Computer and internet literate.
• Work Effectively as part of the Counselling Services team and collaboratively with Aboriginal Student Services Centre and other departments and wellness services on campus.
• Willingness to engage in supervision.

Applications must be submitted online  via The University of Winnipeg’s online recruitment system. Please follow this link: Counsellor for Indigenous Students, Student Counselling Services - University of Winnipeg (northstarats.com) and click Apply to submit your application.

For additional details on how to submit your application, please visit our Human Resources website  and under the Employment category, choose the Faculty Employment position vacancies option.

Inquiries about the position may be directed to Inga Johnson Mychasiw,  [email protected]

The University of Winnipeg is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognizes that a diverse staff and faculty benefits and enriches the work, learning and research environments, and is essential to academic and institutional excellence. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and encourage women, racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQ+ persons to confidentially self-identify at time of application.

*Preference will be given to qualified Indigenous candidates. Please confidentially self-identify at the time of application. *

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.

The University of Winnipeg is committed to ensuring employment opportunities are accessible for all applicants. If you require accommodation supports during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected].

The personal information of applicants is collected under the authority of the University of Winnipeg Act and 36(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. All personal information collected via the recruitment process is used to assess the applicant’s suitability, eligibility, and qualifications for employment, and to otherwise support recruitment activities. This information will be provided to participating members of the recruitment process. Questions regarding the collection of your personal information may be directed to the Director, HR Services, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2E9 or [email protected].

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