COUNSELLOR - STUDENT WELLNESS SERVICES

Job ID: 35513
Location: Main Campus
The University of Calgary Student Wellness Services, Student Experience and Support, is seeking a 20-month Contingent Term Counsellor (with strong possibility of extension) to provide individual and group counselling to University of Calgary students.
Student Wellness Services is the collaboration of Student Health, Mental Health Services and Health Promotion to provide wellness in body, mind, and spirit to support academic and personal success. We support the University of Calgary by providing integrated and expanded health and wellness services promoting the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of students within a supportive community. Mental Health Services’ mission is to support positive mental health by providing students direct care and connection to accessible services through collaboration and consultation with other campus and community partners.
This Academic position reports to the Associate Director (Counselling). The Counsellor provides individual and group counselling to undergraduate and graduate students of the University of Calgary to meet their personal, career and academic counselling needs. The Counsellor must work effectively with a diverse inter-professional Wellness Services team and must build relationships with a diverse community of students, faculty, other Student Experience and Support units and external stakeholders. This Academic position is also required to contribute scholarly professional knowledge through publication and presentations and maintain competency through research and professional development.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Graduate Degree in Counselling Psychology or Clinical Psychology
• Professional designation as a Registered Psychologist with the ability to practice in Alberta is required
• Designation as a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) will not be considered for this position
• Minimum five years of counselling experience required; ability to supervise provisional psychologists is preferred
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse groups of people using an intersectional lens
• Highly developed oral, written and presentation skills
• Experience in single session and brief counselling format is preferred
• Experience in one or more of the following would be an asset: counselling in a post-secondary setting, working with trauma in a brief context, and/or addictions counseling

The Counsellor provides services primarily in the areas of personal counselling and academic success.