Rehabilitation Counsellor

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA); Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 61,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Accommodations available

Job summary

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) seeks a counsellor to provide intake, assessment, and treatment support across addictions-related services. The role focuses on client-centred care, education, and referrals within a collaborative regional network.

The position requires a social sciences or counselling background with supervised experience, strong communication, and the ability to work with diverse communities in a health‑care setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with supervised counselling experience or a Diploma with supervised counselling experience.
• Experience in addictions/mental health and client-centred care is preferred.
• Registration or active membership with a regulatory body as applicable.

Responsibilities

• Provide intake and assessment, counselling, referrals, and case management.
• Develop treatment plans and continuing care services for addictions and related concerns.
• Deliver educational sessions and organize community activities.
• Maintain documentation and ensure confidentiality and ethics.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and train staff as needed.
• Utilize Word/PowerPoint for reporting and client materials.
• Adapt services to culturally diverse populations and available resources.

Skills

Assessment

Counselling

Documentation

Motivational Interviewing

Team collaboration

Client-centred approach

Education

Bachelor’s in Social Sciences with supervised counselling

Diploma in Applied Counselling with supervised experience

Asset: experience in addictions field

Tools

Word

PowerPoint

Publisher

Job description

Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region! Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites, services and organizations. We're united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.

Salary: $44.294 , $46.305 , $48.407 , $50.605 , $52.900 , $54.487

Position Overview

Reporting to the Program Supervisor, the incumbent will conduct treatment services (for identified individual, couples or family). The position requires a commitment to a client-centred philosophy and approach to the development, provision, and support of Winnipeg Regional Health Authority programs and services. The focus is to provide intake and assessment, counselling, referrals, case management, educational sessions, development of treatment plans and continuing care services for concerns related to the effects of addiction, alcohol and drug use.

Experience

• Demonstrated knowledge and skills related to assessment and counselling.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication and documentation skills.
• Knowledge of the addictions and mental health fields and demonstrated ability to work within a complex system of services are required.
• Experience working from a client-centred perspective is essential.
• Training and /or experience in the utilization of Motivational Interviewing techniques and experience in developing, planning, preparing and facilitating educational material and services and experience in organizing community activities are required.
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills are required.
• Strong collaborative consultation skills and the ability to lead and train positively in a team environment are necessary.
• The ability to utilize current software, especially Word, PowerPoint and Publisher, and learn new technology for effective delivery of services is necessary.
• An understanding of, and sensitivity to, working with culturally diverse populations is essential. Fluency in English (ability to communicate in French and Indigenous languages including Ojibway and Cree is preferred).
• Proficiency in an Indigenous Language and/or knowledge of Indigenous customs, traditions, and values is preferred.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

• A Bachelor's degree in the Social Sciences from an accredited education institution with related field with a minimum of one-year supervised counselling experience (or volunteer experience); or
• A Diploma in Applied Counselling (from an accredited education institution) with a minimum of two years supervised counselling experience (or volunteer experience).
• Working in the addictions field an asset.

Certification/Licensure/Registration

• Active membership in good standing of an associated regulatory body as applicable.

Qualifications And Skills

• Ability to communicate respectfully and positively with clients and staff and presents self in an approachable and friendly manner.
• Demonstrates a genuine enthusiasm for client-centred care and demonstrates empathy and compassion.
• Exhibits the ability to respond to client requests and crises in a responsible, timely and flexible manner.
• Demonstrates the ability to balance the needs of clients, other staff persons and those of the organization.
• Demonstrates enthusiasm for ongoing professional development activities and engages in reciprocal learning experiences with colleagues and Directors.
• Recognizes the importance of regular supervision meetings.
• Demonstrates active listening abilities, is coachable and responds positively to supervision.
• Works collaboratively in the context of a provincial organization, with numerous colleagues, to ensure a consistent approach.
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to personal and professional ethics, integrity and responsibility.
• Ability to manage one’s own emotions and strong feelings; maintain a calm and tactful composure under a broad range of challenging circumstances; think clearly and stay focused under pressure.

Physical Requirements

• May be required to work safely in a typical computerized office environment with frequent meetings.
• May be required to travel throughout the service area requiring a valid Manitoba driver's license and use of a personal motor vehicle.
• Some evening and weekend work may be required.

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, Prairie Crocus Manor, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.

Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Manitoba healthcare employers, in partnership with the Indigenous community, are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.