Human Services Counsellor Withdrawal Management Dundas
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Original job description
As a member of our interprofessional Withdrawal Management Services team, the Human Services Counsellor plays an important role in supporting people who use drugs and/or alcohol who have expressed interest in temporarily abstaining from using and are seeking residential withdrawal management services.
Duties & Responsibilities
Duties & Responsibilities
- Develops therapeutic relationships with people who use drugs and/or alcohol who have a goal to withdraw safely from substances
- Completes new client intakes, program transfers and discharges
- Maintains therapeutic milieu for residential WMS clients throughout their stay in the program
- Completes assessments of mental status, suicide risk and substance use
- Monitors clients for signs and symptoms of overdose, intoxication and withdrawal
- Develops collaborative care plans with community services and supports
- Engages in treatment planning activities including making inquiries about available community resources, completing referral forms, r monitoring service delivery
- Providing individual motivational interviewing counselling and psychoeducation around substance use
- Co-facilitating evidence-informed group interventions including seeking safety,
- Provides crisis prevention and intervention as required
- Engages in transfer of accountability/shift report reports
- Completes clinical documentation
- Successful completion of college diploma program in Human Service Addiction Studies, Social Service Worker, Mental Health studies required
- Successful completion of university degree in arts or sciences considered an asset
- Successfully completed post graduate certificate in addictions and mental health considered an asset
- Previous experience working in an addiction counselling role considered an asset
- Excellent knowledge of best practices in addictions care and treatment required
- Excellent knowledge of community resources for people who use drugs and/or alcohol required
- Excellent therapeutic relationship and collaborative care planning skills required
- Excellent interprofessional teamworking collaboration, problem solving and conflict management skills required
- Very good understanding of the social determinants of health, anti-oppressive and trauma informed practice required
- Proficiency in using Microsoft suite and computerized clinical documentation systems required
- Must be willing to work 12 hour day and evening shifts on a rotational basis
More about this job
Responsibilities
Build therapeutic relationships with clients seeking residential withdrawal management, complete intake and assessment processes, and monitor clients for overdose, intoxication, and withdrawal. Provide counselling, psychoeducation, group interventions, crisis support, collaborative care planning, shift handovers, and clinical documentation.
Requirements
A college diploma in Human Service Addiction Studies, Social Service Work, or Mental Health Studies is required; a university degree and a postgraduate certificate in addictions and mental health are assets. Candidates need knowledge of addiction care practices and community resources, strong counselling and collaboration skills, trauma-informed and anti-oppressive practice, and proficiency with Microsoft tools and computerized clinical documentation systems.
Skills
- Addiction Counselling
- Therapeutic Relationship Building
- Client Intake and Discharge
- Mental Status Assessment
- Suicide Risk Assessment
- Substance Use Assessment
- Overdose and Withdrawal Monitoring
- Collaborative Care Planning
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychoeducation
- Group Facilitation
- Crisis Prevention and Intervention
- Community Resource Navigation
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Conflict Management
- Clinical Documentation
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Categories
- Healthcare
- Social Services
Keywords
- Withdrawal Management Services
- Addiction Counselling
- Substance Use
- Residential Withdrawal Management
- Therapeutic Relationships
- Client Intake
- Program Transfers
- Client Discharge
- Mental Status Assessment
- Suicide Risk Assessment
- Overdose Monitoring
- Intoxication Monitoring
- Withdrawal Monitoring
- Care Planning
- Community Resources
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychoeducation
- Group Interventions
- Seeking Safety
- Crisis Prevention
- Crisis Intervention
- Shift Reports
- Clinical Documentation
- Social Determinants Of Health
- Anti-Oppressive Practice
- Trauma-Informed Practice
- Microsoft Suite
- Computerized Clinical Documentation Systems