Date Posted: 08/28/2025
Req ID: 44962
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Health & Counselling Ctr.
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00030766

ABOUT US:

U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of humanpotential.
Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning anddiscovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.
This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside theMissinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those whowant to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.
The Health & Counselling Centre (HCC) at UTM is a multi-disciplinary health clinic that provides student-friendly medical care, mental health counselling, and health education and promotion programs and services to a diverse student population of undergraduate and graduate students. The HCC strives to empower students to make healthier, evidence-based choices to support their growth and development, assists students in their pursuit of academic success, and promotes adoption of positive coping skills to foster greater resiliency in the pursuit of current and future goals. The HCC works closely with other departments across the University with the goal of ensuring students have timely access to quality medical and mental health supports.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree in social work or counselling/psychotherapy. Must be a current member, in good standing, within a Regulated Health Profession.
• Minimum five years of independent clinical experience, post-internship completion.
• Experiencewith the young adult population (17-25 year-olds) is required.
• Prior experience with crisis counselling, and with drop-in or same-day counselling
• Prior experience providing single-session therapy
• Experience and demonstrated ability to deliver training and workshops on mental health-related topics
• Prior training and focus of practice in working with individuals who have experienced trauma or have been diagnosed with PTSD required.
• Familiarity and experience with short-term, goal-oriented, focused therapeutic interventions.
• Experience providing multi-cultural counselling required.
• Prior experience developing and facilitating group therapy programs
• Strong counselling, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
• Experience working within short-term counselling model (i.e., 8-session limit)
• Good judgment and reliability.
• Non-judgmental attitude.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong computer skills (e.g., MS Office, Internet, Outlook), and comfortable with virtual presenting and technology

LIVED EXPERIENCE STATEMENT

Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy for students and making referrals to appropriate resources on and off campus (e.g., physicians, academic advisors, financial aid advisors, Accessibility advisors, career advisors, etc).
• Providing initial clinical support and/or counselling to distressed students in crisis and making referrals to appropriate resources
• Screening students to determine suitability for short-term counselling
• Assessing the mental health of clients
• Determining if there is a life-threatening situation, risk of self-harm or harm to others and independently applying appropriate interventions
• Developing components of treatment plans based on appropriate therapeutic approaches
• Developing psychotherapeutically-appropriate materials for group counselling and intake procedures for clients
• Updating and maintaining patient records

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL BE:

• Approachable
• Communicator
• Diplomatic
• Patient
• Perceptive
• Team player
  Closing Date: 09/11/2025, 11:59PM ET
  Employee Group: USW
  Appointment Type: Budget - Term
  Schedule: Full-Time