Job title: Registered Counselling Supervisor
Work Location: K’awat’si Economic Development Corporation
Reports to: Director of HR
Company Vision and Values: To create, operate, and support businesses that would be profitable, environmentally sustainable and culturally significant, while respecting our unique values, and upholding the pride and well-being of the Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw peoples.
Purpose: To respond to community members’ psychosocial needs. These needs often cross multiple sectors, including child welfare, health care, and criminal justice and jurisdictions, with trauma that requires a high level of capacity and understanding of clinical knowledge and skills to respond adequately. The incumbent is expected to fuse both clinical Western and traditional Indigenous methodologies of care and support, providing holistic, wraparound services to community members. Additionally, the incumbent will supervise counsellors, offering guidance and clinical oversight to ensure culturally grounded, trauma-informed, and effective support is delivered across all areas of service.
This is not a remote position and requires relocation to Port Hardy, located on the northern tip of Vancouver Island, BC. Port Hardy serves as a gateway to natural beauty and cultural heritage. Nestled in a region of breathtaking rainforests, rugged coastlines, and vibrant marine life, the town offers a rich tapestry of community and history.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Core Competencies
- Client Focus
- Indigenous mental wellness strategies and support mechanisms
- Teamwork
- Quality Orientation
- Problem Solving
- Accountability and Dependability
- Ethics and Integrity
- Crisis management
- Risk management
- Cultural safety
- Trauma informed
What We Offer:
- Career growth and development opportunities
- 1 month of covered accommodation for individuals relocating from outside of Northern Vancouver Island.
- Relocation assistance.
- Company events and holiday parties
- Benefits after 3 months of employment with the company.
- Wellness incentives include a discounted gym membership and free counselling services.
Job Duties
- Provide brief and/or extended person-centred, strength-based, clinical counselling/psychotherapy to participants of the KEDC counselling program while fusing both Western clinical approaches and Indigenous methodologies.
- Offer culturally appropriate, holistic, wraparound direct service, including client assessment, intervention, group healing processes, and referrals.
- Provide quality client care that is consistent with best practice, agency standards, and evidence-based approaches (particularly brief, narrative, solution-focused therapies for walk-in counselling and trauma-informed approaches for longer-term psychotherapy).
- Supervise and support counsellors and/or clinical staff by providing clinical oversight, mentorship, and guidance to ensure high-quality, culturally grounded, and trauma-informed services.
- Develop, facilitate, and coordinate training and professional development to support community members, counsellors, and Knowledge Keepers in building capacity and preventing burnout.
- Enter and maintain participant records in the EMR system and databases, ensuring timely sharing and receiving of referrals, and monitoring referral status.
- Create and maintain cooperative working relationships with community agencies, schools, courts, child welfare workers, etc., to make referrals and mobilize community resources for participant welfare.
- Complete reports as required.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- Master’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling or other applicable program.
- Valid Social Work license or registration as required by the province of British Columbia.
- Minimum 3 years of social work experience in a health care setting or social service agency
- Demonstrated experience in working with Indigenous populations, victims of trauma, abuse and violence
- Able to deal with people sensitively, tactfully, diplomatically, and professionally at all times.
- Highly flexible, with solid interpersonal skills that allow one to work effectively in a diverse working environment.
- High level of sound and independent judgment, reasoning, and discretion.
- Excellent assessment, interviewing, and counselling skills.
- Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances require and must know when to refer a person for further medical assessment.
- Able to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing.
- Computer literacy, including effective working skills of MS Word, Excel, EMR and e-mail required.
- Strong morals and ethics, along with a commitment to staff privacy.
- Expertise in mental health and substance abuse areas preferred.
- Criminal record check
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs
- Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly on the telephone
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $90,000.00-$95,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness program
Application question(s):
- Are you willing to relocate to Port Hardy?
- How many years of counsellor experience do you have?
- Are you a registered Counsellor in Canada?
Education:
- Master's Degree (preferred)
Work Location: On the road
