Youth School Counsellor, Pelican
Internal/External Posting
Full-time Position
Location: Sioux Lookout, Ontario
Salary Range: $71,442 - 91,949 per annum
Reference Number: 2022-52
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Nodin Mental Health Services is Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority's mental health department. It is a resource available to First Nation children, youth, adults and families from 33 remote northern communities served by SLFNHA. Nodin has several services: intake, counsellors travelling to communities, a crisis response program, community-based children's mental health and addiction workers, traditional healing, youth school counsellors, and an outpatient mental health service (OMHS).
The Youth School Counsellor is responsible for the delivery of mental health care to high-risk students of Pelican Falls First Nation High School (PFFNHS). This school is a private, First Nations-controlled and operated school, offering unique and culturally relevant educational services to students from 24 First Nation communities within the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation. It is approximately a 45-minute drive from Sioux Lookout.
The Youth School Counsellor provides one-on-one or group counselling to school students, while collaborating with teachers, parents and other service providers. The goal of this counselling is to help students who are high risk to overcome behavioural/mental health problems, improve student success, resolve interpersonal problems, or work through personal problems. The Youth School Counsellor works in the school during the week, an office on-site at the school. During the off-school season, the position will travel to communities and/or provide support through phone and videoconferencing and/or provide counselling at Nodin's base office.
The Youth School Counsellor reports to a Clinical Supervisor.
Persons of First Nations ancestry will be given preference (s.16 (1)CHRA)
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