Counsellor

at  Okanagan College

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

The minimum qualification is a Master’s degree, or equivalent in a counselling or related discipline with supervised clinical experience at the graduate level.
Registration or eligibility for registration with degree-appropriate governing or legal body is required (e.g. BCACC, CCPA, BC College of Social Workers, BC College of Psychologists).
Clinical counselling experience in a post-secondary environment is preferred. Experience may also include independent, post-secondary or secondary school work directly related to the duty assignment. An active profile in scholarship, research and creative activity is preferred.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Demonstrated competency in the following areas:

• individual and group counselling
• career, academic success, and personal counselling
• crisis intervention work
• student success programming and workshop delivery
• outreach and referral
• mediation
• student advocacy
• working in a computerized environment

1. Workload assignments may include clinical practice, teaching, scholarship and community service.
2. The professional duties of a counsellor may include all or any of the following: personal, career and academic success counselling services; response to student crises and emergencies; case consultation; testing and psycho-educational assessment; development, delivery and evaluation of student success courses and workshops; practicum and internship supervision; community and professional education; consultation for and liaison with Okanagan College departments, faculty and staff, as well as community representatives and groups; administrative duties; regional campus duties that are congruent with the counselling discipline; and other ancillary counselling and advisory functions.
3. Professional development is activity intended to promote teaching excellence, subject area competence and technical competence in an area of professional or instructional expertise.
4. Service may include all or any of the following: school visitations; active membership on appropriate college or union committees, councils or boards; participation in professional or academic organizations; application of the employee’s academic or professional competence or expertise in the community at large; attendance at articulation meetings; representing Okanagan College at other functions, administrative duties and other duties.
5. Scholarly activity includes scholarship, research and creative activities. Scholarship involves oral or written activities that reflect a thorough and critical collection of knowledge of one’s profession or discipline. Research involves contributing to the expansion of knowledge and the sharing of that knowledge through appropriate professional means. Research includes application of research findings for purposes of practical application. Creative activities involve creative practice, exhibition, performance, composition, multimedia presentations and other similar activities that reflect applied practice of one’s profession or discipline.