Addictions Counsellor, Oak Tree Clinic - BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre

**Addictions Counsellor, Oak Tree Clinic** BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre Vancouver, BC **What you’ll do** * Performs intakes to collect addiction specific data and client profile information for the purposes of assessment and individual treatment planning. This includes meeting one on one with clients, gathering information from referral package, and interviewing and formulating individual treatment plans. * Works within a harm reduction model of care, conducts individual and group counselling sessions designed to increase client awareness of substance misuse related issues and enhance positive motivation for change. * Functions as a case manager for specified number of clients by completing forms relevant to ongoing and after care planning and gathers information from addictions and mental health resources to assist clients in reaching their treatment goals. * Performs crisis intervention on immediate and on-call basis by assisting clients in crisis to develop containment skills and coping strategies; provides phone and in-person counseling at the request of support staff and as scheduled by the Program Manager. * Manages client concerns as they arise (financial, legal and/or family problems). This includes gathering information and providing counseling intervention, which leads to resolution or referral. **What you bring** Qualifications * Master’s degree in a health related discipline such as Clinical Counselling, Clinical Psychology, or Addictions. * Two (2) years’ of recent related experience, including at least one (1) years’ experience in alcohol and drug counselling, including relevant experience in HIV/AIDS, family and individual counselling, and harm reduction interventions or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience * Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and systemic racism on Indigenous Peoples within social and health contexts. This includes understanding how these factors contribute to current health disparities and barriers to care. Show a clear commitment to identifying, challenging, and eradicating Indigenous-specific racism and all forms of discrimination impacting equity-deserving groups within healthcare settings. This involves recognizing personal biases, institutional barriers, engaging in anti-racism education and training and advocating for systemic change. * Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments within BCW contexts found in the foundational documents including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study, BC