Wellness Navigation Advisor - Jobs in Mississauga, ON

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Date Posted: 07/11/2022Req ID: 25685Faculty/Division: UofT MississaugaDepartment: UTM: Health & Counselling Ctr.Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)Position Number: 00051267Description:About us:The university’s second largest division, U of T Mississauga has 17 academic departments and offers 156 programs in 92 areas of study. Home to approximately 15,000 students and over 1,000 faculty and staff, the campus houses the Mississauga Academy of Medicine, Centre for Medicinal Chemistry and Institute for Management and Innovation. With its distinctive interdisciplinary programs such as forensic sciences and biomedical communications, U of T Mississauga offers a broad array of continuing education programs and professional masters programs. Established in 1967, the campus features award-winning architecture, robust community partnerships and a dynamic student environment set amongst 225 acres along the Credit River in Mississauga.The Health & Counselling Centre (HCC) at UTM is a multi-disciplinary health clinic that provides student-friendly medical care, mental health counselling, and health education and promotion programs and services to a diverse student population of undergraduate and graduate students. The HCC strives to empower students to make healthier, evidence-based choices to support their growth and development, assists students in their pursuit of academic success, and promotes adoption of positive coping skills to foster greater resiliency in the pursuit of current and future goals. The HCC works closely with other departments across the University with the aim of ensuring students have timely access to quality medical andmental health supports.Your opportunity:Under clinical supervision of the Lead Counsellor and general direction and supervision of the Assistant Director, Health & Counselling Centre, the incumbent is responsible for providing mental health navigation appointments to assist students with learning about, and making choices about, their preferred options for mental health education and support. Navigation duties will also include training and oversight of student navigation leaders as part of the health education and promotion services of the department. The incumbent will also be responsible for providing single session counselling (same-day), whenever a navigation appointment changes direction to personal counselling support. Other duties will include relationship building with campus and community supports and resources, initial screening and referrals to appropriate resources and services, risk assessment and safety planning in accordance with HCC protocols, and delivering Stepped Care and navigation workshops and training. Inherent in this role are the knowledge, skills and attitudes specific to critical thinking and decision making, ability to analyze and assess presenting mental health concerns and collaborate with the medical team in the management of these mental health concerns, as well as flexibility in decision making in fluid situations with unpredictable outcomes.Your responsibilitis will include:

• Providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy to individual students and/or groups of students, including distressed students in crisis, and making referrals to appropriate resources.
• Screening and making referrals to appropriate resources and services
• Screening students to determine suitability for short-term counselling
• Assessing the mental health of clients
• Establishing priorities when booking appointments and drop-ins
• Fostering positive relationships with campus resources and community health services providers
• Determining if there is a life-threatening situation, risk of self-harm or harm to others and independently applying appropriate interventions
• Determining the appropriate level of clinical intervention

Essential Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in social work or counselling/psychotherapy or acceptable combination of equivalent experience. Must be a current member, in good standing, within a Regulated HealthProfession.
• Minimum five years of independent clinical experience, after completion of graduate degree requirements.
• Prior experience working within a single-session or one-at-a-time model, with same-day or walk-in services
• Prior experience with crisis counselling and/or management
• Prior experience with case management, discharge planning, and broad knowledge of community resources and building relationships
• Prior training and focus of practice in working with individuals who have experienced trauma or have been diagnosed with PTSD
• Familiarity and experience with short-term, goal-oriented, focused therapeutic interventions
• Experience providing multi-cultural counselling required
• Familiarity with the Stepped Care 2.0 model of mental health care
• Strong counselling, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
• Experience working within brief or short-term counselling model
• Good judgement and reliability
• Non-judgmental attitude
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong computer skills (e.g., MS Office, Internet, Outlook), and comfortable with virtual presenting and technology

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience with the emerging adult population (17-25 year-olds)
• Prior experience with mental health or medical navigation (e.g., hospital-based setting, community-based resources or clinics)
• Prior experience working in a multi-disciplinary clinic or team
• Prior cultural competency training an asset
• Familiarity with electronic medical record keeping

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Decisive
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Resourceful

Closing Date: 07/25/2022, 11:59PM ETEmployee Group: USWAppointment Type: Budget - ContinuingSchedule: Full-TimePay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:USW Pay Band 15 - $86,011 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $109,993. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.Job Category: Student ServicesLived Experience StatementCandidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.Quick Apply

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