Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program Counsellor

Requisition ID: 370603

Position Number: [[cust_PCN]]

Posting End Date: Open Until Filled

City: Winnipeg

Employer: Women's Health Clinic

Site: Women's Health Clinic - 419 Graham

Department / Unit: Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention and Recovery Program

Posting Category: Clinical

Union: MAHCP

Anticipated Start - End Date: 12/02/2024 - 06/05/2026

Reason for Term: Maternity Leave

FTE: 0.6375 first year and 0.8 last 6 months

Anticipated Shift: Days; Evenings; Weekends

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Daily Hours Worked: 5-8 hours

Salary: $ [[33.747]] , $ [[34.761]] , $ [[35.802]] , $ [[36.879]] , $ [[37.985]] , $ [[39.127]] , $ [[40.303]] , $ [[41.513]] , $ [[42.756]] , $ [[44.041]]

Rotation Calendar:

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.

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:

• Values aligned with Harm Reduction, Anti-oppression, and Healing Centered 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.