Counsellor - Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program (PEDPRP)

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority; Winnipeg; Ibrido; CAD 65.000 - 85.000; Part-time

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Women\'s Health Clinic in Winnipeg is seeking a Counsellor to provide individual and group counselling within the Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program (PEDPRP). The role supports feminist counselling principles and WHC values, with a 0.8 FTE maternity leave coverage in a hybrid work arrangement.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor\'s degree in a relevant discipline, 3 years of supervised counselling experience, group facilitation skills, and a commitment to

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline and equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 3 years’ experience providing clinically supervised therapeutic counselling.
• Experience developing and facilitating groups.
• Demonstrated understanding of weight bias and body positive perspectives.
• Satisfactory Criminal Record check and Child Abuse Registry check.
• Must be legally able to work in Canada.
• Proficiency in both official languages or other language.

Mansioni

• Provide individual therapeutic counselling.
• Provide therapeutic group counselling and workshops.
• Maintain a strong clinical knowledge base to provide relevant support to clients and accurately assess client needs.
• Assume responsibility for clinical area and provide relevant and timely comprehensive client service in program area.
• Connect clients with appropriate resources.
• Ensure accurate standardized records are created and maintained; provide relevant statistical information to management.
• Participate in clinical supervision and service team meetings.
• Maintain strong external and community connections by participating in relevant community networks, committees and in speaking engagements where program area expertise is an asset.

Conoscenze

Therapeutic counselling

Group facilitation

Weight bias understanding

Criminal Record check and Child Abuse/

Work eligibility in Canada

Bilingual/multilingual capabilities

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline

Master’s Degree / MSW / MMFT or related degree

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Counsellor - Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program (PEDPRP)

Requisition ID: 385120

Position Number: [[cust_PCN]]

Posting End Date: November 26, 2026

City: Winnipeg

Employer: Women's Health Clinic

Site: Women's Health Clinic -

Department / Unit: Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program (PEDPRP)

Posting Category: Clinical

Union: MAHCP

Anticipated Start - End Date: 01/18/2027 - 01/21/2028

Reason for Term: Maternity Leave

FTE: 0.8

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Daily Hours Worked: 8 hours

Annual Base Hours:

Rotation Calendar:

Monday to Friday days with occasional evenings and weekends

WHC promotes personal agency and believes that all people should be empowered to take care of their mental, emotional, sexual, physical and spiritual health and wellbeing. We offer sexual, reproductive, and mental health care and support for people of all genders. Our organizational values guide our work through an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, intersectional, feminist, harm reduction lens.

Position Summary:

This position is responsible for providing individual and group counselling for clients of the Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program in alignment with feminist counselling principles and WHC vision, mission and values.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, organized and detail-oriented individual. The successful candidate will possess excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills and be able to work to strict deadlines while contributing to a professional working environment.

• Provide individual therapeutic counselling
• Provide therapeutic group counselling and workshops
• Maintain a strong clinical knowledge base to provide relevant support to clients and accurately assess client needs
• Assume responsibility for clinical area and provide relevant and timely comprehensive client service in program area
• Connect clients with appropriate resources
• Ensure accurate standardized records are created and maintained; provide relevant statistical information to management
• Participate in clinical supervision and service team meetings
• Maintain strong external and community connections by participating in relevant community networks, committees and in speaking engagements where program area expertise is an asset.

Candidates must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline and an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 3 years’ experience providing clinically supervised therapeutic counselling.
• Experience developing and facilitating groups.
• Demonstrated understanding of weight bias and body positive perspectives.
• Satisfactory Criminal Record check and Child Abuse Registry check.
• Must be legally able to work in Canada

Assets:

• Relevant Master’s Degree, MSW, MMFT or related degree
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working with youth and families
• Minimum 3 years’ experience providing therapeutic individual, family and group counselling
• Values aligned with Harm Reduction, Anti-oppression, and Healing Centred models of care.
• Familiarity with a weight neutral approach to health care
• Knowledge of the ways in which BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA communities are distinctly impacted by eating disorders including of connections between food, culture, family and community and ideas and beliefs about disordered eating and body image
• Understanding of the current, historical, and intergenerational impact of settler colonialism and the connection to disordered eating and body image
• Meaningful, integrated connections to communities that are underserved by the Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program.
• Proficiency in both official languages or other language.