Child and Family Therapist

Caminowellbeing; Kitchener; Hybrid; CAD 46,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health is seeking a Full-Time Child and Family Therapist for an 18-month contract to support children, youth, and families with holistic, trauma-informed counselling.

The role is based in the Waterloo Region, with primary work in the Cambridge region, requiring evenings and in-person service. Masters in counselling or MSW and full registration are required.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in counselling or MSW with full college registration.
• Exceptional organizational skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving abilities for emotionally charged situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical service to children, youth, and families using holistic, trauma-informed approaches.
• Deliver therapeutic interventions for clients up to 18, and their caregivers.
• Offer trauma-informed individual and group therapies and support healing.
• Coordinate with families and service providers for integrated care.
• Provide crisis support, safety planning, and risk mitigation.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments to understand client needs.

Skills

Clinical counselling

Crisis intervention

Team collaboration

Education

Master’s degree in counselling or MSW

Job description

Are you passionate about contributing to the community? Are you interested in working for an organization that is committed to learning and growing, puts people at the centre of our work, believes in a culture of belonging and build on the strength of our community?

Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health supports individuals, families and communities as they work to strengthen their wellbeing and mental health. Our vision is to have a connected community where all people thrive.

WHAT’S THE OPPORTUNITY?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Full-Time Child and Family Therapist for an 18-Month Contract to join our clinical team! In this role you’ll be responsible for supporting children, youth and their caregivers and families by delivering exceptional service to our clients regardless of their financial means. You will use your clinical training, professional development, and expertise to deliver valuable counselling/psychotherapeutic services to individuals, families, and groups.

This role will primarily be working within the Cambridg e region.

WHY WORK FOR US?

We are an organization that serves individuals, families and communities within the Waterloo Region. We are excited about our work, the impact we have in the community and our people (our people are our superpower!). We are committed to doing what is best for our community and to developing our people.

Join us to:

• Do work that matters.
• Be part of a caring, passionate, and collaborative workplace that lives its values.
• Learn a ton and support us in creating a more seamless experience for individuals, families and our community.
• Be a part of our diversity, equity, and inclusion journey.
• Put the people we serve at the centre of everything we do.
• Have a positive impact in our community.
• Work with an organization that supports your growth and provides opportunities for you to use your transferrable skills among other teams and programs.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Provide direct clinical service to children, youth, parents, and families while ensuring all services are based on holistic practice and an integration of family focus, wellness, attachment theory, resilience building methods and trauma-informed principles.
• Deliver therapeutic interventions utilizing a variety of treatment modalities to children and youth up to 18 years of age, and their caregivers.
• Provide individual trauma-informed therapies and group treatment to children, youth, parents and their families to facilitate their healing and reduction of trauma-related symptoms.
• Liaise with families, guardians and service providers to ensure optimum coordination of services and collaborative working relationships.
• Provide immediate support to clients in crisis including risk mitigation, safety planning and connections to crisis services.
• Offer a range of comprehensive assessments to understand the client’s needs; assesses other factors that may be impacting the client (e.g., environment, family situation, resettlement).

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Masters’ degree in a counselling related field or Master of Social Work degree with fully registered status with the applicable college.
• Exceptional organizational skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment that requires balancing multiple demands and priorities.
• Effective problem-solving abilities to deal with emotionally charged situations on a frequent basis.

ARE THERE BONUS POINTS?

• Experience working in a community setting.
• Experience providing family counselling.
• Knowledge of domestic violence and trauma.
• Training and/or certification in additional clinical modalities (eg CBT, EMDR, SFBT, etc.)
• Demonstrated understanding of attachment and trauma informed therapeutic interventions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience working from an anti-oppressive practice approach.
• 2 years’ relevant clinical experience (delivering counselling/psychotherapy, crisis work, family support), ideally with children youth and families.

ANYTHING ELSE I SHOULD KNOW?

• This is a full-time (37.5 hours per week), contrac t position lasting approximately 18 months in duration.
• This role involves evening shifts a minimum of 2 times per week until 8pm.
• You will be providing 5 direct hours of client service (eg. group, individual sessions) per day.
• This is a fully in-person role.
• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
• Satisfactory Criminal and Vulnerable Sector Police check is required.
• Wage: $33.26 to $46.41 per hour. This role is within the PRT (Registered The rapist, Programs & Services) Job Grade.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY

Camino is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. At Camino we believe that diversity enriches our performance, clients, services offered, the communities where we live and work, and the lives of our employees. Should you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Human Resources ([e-mail]). While we thank all applicants for their interest, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As we continue to be responsive to the changing needs of our communities, we acknowledge the historical and present-day violence and systemic barriers that continue to harm members of our Region and that we must ask ourselves not if we are complicit, but how.

Camino is committed to developing anti-oppressive practices and equitable outcomes for the families we serve while ensuring that our programs reflect and meet their needs. We recognize that we must work in collaboration with others to dismantle systems of oppression, discrimination, and violence that people face as a result of their diversity, beliefs and identities.

Building equity takes time, resources, intentional commitment and behavioural change. It is an ongoing process, and we start by recognizing the racism and discrimination faced by Indigenous people, Black people, Asian communities, racialized people, ethnic or linguistic groups, members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, unhoused people, people with mental illness and people with physical and intellectual disabilities.

To help us create change and ensure that we can continue helping families thrive, Camino has invested in antiracism and anti-oppression training for all our employees. In addition, we have engaged in an organizational assessment to identify and address gaps. We have also created an Equity Leader position to help ensure our policies, processes, and practices eliminate any existence or influence of systemic racism across our organization.

We have a lot of work to do and we are committed to keep moving forward on this learning journey. We will continue to listen, learn, and take action to ensure that everyone at Camino experiences true equity, empowerment, and inclusion.