Manager, Counselling Services
Health Careers Manitoba
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Winnipeg • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Provides clinical support and insight to clinical supervisors, counsellors, public educators, system navigators, social workers and administrative assistants
- Participates in the development, implementation, and oversight of plans, policies, and practices, ensuring quality service and alignment with Klinic’s values
- Plans counselling and public education related program development, transitions and activities
- Ensures program quality, development, evaluation, and client safety
- Handles workforce planning tasks in a unionized environment
- Maintains effective and positive working relationships with community and related service agencies
- Works collaboratively with peers and promotes positive working relationships with other Klinic programs
- Requires scheduling flexibility, occasional evening, weekend work, limited travel, and participation in an on-call rotation
Requirements
- At least 3 years of leadership experience
- Experience in community health and leading interdisciplinary health teams in a unionized environment is an asset
- Undergraduate degree in a health or social services related field, Master’s degree preferred
- 5 to 7 years’ experience delivering clinical counselling services, including 3 years’ experience at a community-based agency
- Expertise in varying therapy models and interventions that best support crisis, short term and longer-term counselling
- Expertise and clinical experience related to risk assessment, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, trauma recovery, gender-based violence, sexual assault, mental health, substance use/addiction, harm reduction, suicide bereavement and sexual exploitation
- Demonstrated understanding and commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and the MMIWG2S+ Calls to Justice and a commitment to disrupting all forms of racism and oppression, including homophobia and transphobia
- Demonstrated understanding and commitment to holistic health care and a strong understanding of the social determinants of health
- Grounding in trauma-informed practices and cultural safety
- Familiarity with accessibility standards and practices
- Knowledge of best practices, national and provincial standards, and legislation inclusive of Personal Health Information Act (PHIA) and cultural safety
- Proficiency in related software in Microsoft office
- Experience with electronic medical records is an asset
- Experience in clinical research and community health is preferred
- Training in the LEADS Framework is an asset
- Project Management skills/certification are an asset
- Public relations and media communication experience is an asset.
Benefits
- Klinic Community Health is a pro-choice community health center
- Committed to providing safe, quality, holistic, person-centred care
- Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
clinical counselling servicesrisk assessmentcrisis interventiontrauma recoverygender-based violencemental healthsubstance useharm reductiontrauma-informed practicescultural safety
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationrelationship buildingflexibilitycommitment to diversitycommunicationproject managementcommunity engagementproblem-solvingevaluation
Certifications
Project Management certification