
Rehabilitation Counsellor 1 - Men's Treatment & Community Services - Repost
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
- Winnipeg, MB
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ability to communicate respectfully and positively with clients and staff and presents self in an approachable and friendly manner.
- Demonstrates a genuine enthusiasm for client-centred care and demonstrates empathy and compassion.
- Exhibits the ability to respond to client requests and crises in a responsible, timely and flexible manner.
- Demonstrates the ability to balance the needs of clients, other staff persons and those of the organization.
- Demonstrates enthusiasm for ongoing professional development activities and engages in reciprocal learning experiences with colleagues and supervisors.
- Recognizes the importance of regular individual and team supervision meetings.
- Demonstrates active listening abilities, is coachable and responds positively to supervision.
- Works collaboratively in the context of a provincial organization, with numerous colleagues, to ensure a consistent WRHA approach.
- Demonstrates a strong commitment to personal and professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
- Ability to manage one's own emotions and strong feelings; maintain a calm and tactful composure under a broad range of challenging circumstances; think clearly and stay focused under pressure.
- Awareness of the unique circumstances and needs of men in addictions treatment.
- Demonstrates a commitment to the agency's mission, vision, values, and objectives.
- Minimum of one year supervised counselling experience (or volunteer experience) from a family systems perspective is essential, working in the addictions field is an asset or a diploma in Applied Counselling with a minimum of two years supervised counselling experience or volunteer experience (working with families preferred).
- Experience working from a client-centred perspective is essential.
- Training and /or experience in the utilization of Motivational Interviewing techniques and experience in developing, planning, preparing and facilitating educational material and services and experience in organizing community activities are required.
- A Bachelor's degree in the Social Sciences or related field.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills related to assessment, individual and group counselling; excellent organizational, interpersonal and oral communication and documentation skills; knowledge of the addictions and mental health fields and demonstrated ability to work within a complex system of services are required.
- Demonstrated ability working within and contributing to a positive team environment is required.
- Effective communication and problem-solving skills are required.
- An understanding of, and sensitivity to, working with culturally diverse populations is essential.
- Fluency in English (ability to communicate in French and Indigenous languages including Ojibway and Cree is considered an asset).
- This position may require the ability to work some evenings and weekends with varying hours.