Part Time Residential Counsellor - WMTS

We’re Hiring: Part Time Residential Counsellor – Withdrawal Management and Treatment Services

Location: Brantford, ON

Hours: Part Time: Shifts vary - Days, Afternoons, Nights, Weekend, Holidays. 

Start Date: As soon as possible (Vacant Position)

Apply by: October 23^rd, 2026

Email Applications to: recruit@soarcs.ca

About SOAR Community Services

At SOAR, we believe in lifting communities through compassionate, inclusive, and innovative care. Serving the communities of Brantford, Brant, Haldimand, and Norfolk since 1968, we are accredited in Children and Youth Mental Health, Community Mental Health and Addictions Services and Youth Justice Services through the Canadian Centre for Accreditation. Our departments include Employment, Justice, Mental Health and Addictions, and Housing. Join a team that’s committed to making a difference – every day.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for a Part Time Residential Counsellor. This role is a vital part of our Withdrawal Management and Treatment Services program, supporting individuals accessing service within our Withdrawal Management and Treatment Services (WMTS) programs. This position works in our 10-bed live-in treatment program for women. Residential Counsellors work as part of a collaborative team to support individuals making changes to their substance use during their 5-week stay. You support program orientation to ensure people have a welcoming experience when entering care, contribute to client support and transition plans, deliver psychoeducational programming to help clients develop skills to enhance recovery, and facilitate social and recreational activities. You are active and engaged with clients throughout your shift. You make a difference!

What You’ll Do

• Provide orientation to the facility and the program, making program expectations clear
• Provide individual and/or group life skills supports to clients to teach skills such as problem-solving, relapse prevention, communication, and coping strategies
• Contribute to the development of strength-based support and transition plans with clients and help them as they work on their individual plans
• Support safe administration of medications, as needed, to clients in care and document appropriately
• Confidently redirect client behaviour when required, to ensure a physically and emotionally safe space for all
• Be responsive and compassionate to clients within the program
• Document client care issues in our client data system and communicate issues effectively within the team
• Support safe and effective facility functioning through facility tours, light cleaning, and meal preparation
• Support our 24- hour telephone crisis line

What You’ll Bring

• College diploma or certificate in the human services, social services, addiction, concurrent disorder field
• 2 years’ combined student placement and/or paid experience in substance use, concurrent disorders and/or mental health clinical or group settings
• Experience delivering group and/or individual life skills programs 
• Proficient in MS Office and be familiar with databases
• A valid G level drivers license
• Ability to manage frequent exposure to direct and vicarious trauma

Why Join SOAR?

• Salary: Starting at $24.74 per hour annually.

• Time off: 24 hours of personal leave (pro-rated first year).

• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for staff and their families and an annual fitness benefit.

• RSP/TFSA matching for eligible staff.

• A supportive, values-driven workplace that prioritizes your well-being.

Ready to Make an Impact?

We’re looking for someone passionate about empowering client voices, connection in community care and inclusion in action! If that’s you, we want to hear from you.

Our Commitment to Job Seekers

SOAR Community Services is committed to implementing the Calls to Action framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We acknowledge that we live and work on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wyandot, the Haudenosaunee, and some of the Ojibwa Nation. The territory is mutually covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work in this community, on this territory. We also acknowledge that the settler population has been able to benefit from this beautiful land. We are all treaty members and will strive to act in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and center their voices.

SOAR Community Services is committed to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging within our workplace and across the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals with lived and living experience and from members of equity-deserving groups, including Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, and persons with disabilities. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. If you require accommodations as part of the hiring process, please let us know so that we may arrange for their provision.

Personal information submitted will only be used for the purposes of the competition in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Part Time: Shifts vary - Days, Afternoons, Nights, Weekend, Holidays.