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Job Title:           Family Child Youth Therapist - VAW Focused (working with Violence Against Women          Services program)
Salary Range:   $60 208.54 - $68,012.78
Comp #:             2024-12R       
Position:            Full Time Permeant Position (35 hours/week-1FTE) starts July 2024
Location:           Remote and in-person at 2010 Eglinton Ave W & West Toronto Youth  
                            Hub (1534 Jane St.) & other community locations including VAW Shelter
                       
Yorktown Family Services provides a comprehensive range of mental health services for children, youth and families who are experiencing serious emotional/social/behavioural difficulties along with several gender-based violence initiatives. Yorktown is committed to ensuring that all programs produce effective and positive outcomes for clients through evaluation, research and the incorporation of evidence-based services and practices whenever possible. We are committed to inclusiveness and diversity at all levels of the organization.

Yorktown is currently seeking a Family / Child and Youth Therapist who will join the team of professionals at Yorktown. The successful candidate will be a highly independent professional capable of providing remote virtual therapy and in-person therapy.

Primary Function
Yorktown requires a skilled and enthusiastic family and child therapist with fluency in English to provide clinical services to a diverse multi-cultural population. This position is located within our Family Child and Youth counselling service and provides a range of individual, family, group and walk in services to a complex and multi-cultural clientele, with a specific focus on serving families who have experienced intimate partner violence and/or child abuse. This program supports children, survivors of violence and perpetrators of violence. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the VAWS and family child and youth teams to provide a range of clinical services.

Responsibilities
A primary component of this position will be providing single session and brief services to support the Agency’s Walk-In service delivery model. At times this service may be provided in a Shelter for women and families fleeing violence. Setting. The successful candidate will be responsible for the provision of a range of treatment services including individual, family and/or group counselling, brief therapy with children, youth and families, trauma informed treatment.

• The successful candidate will receive referrals from Here to Help and Mindful Fathering Group Programs, as well as Yorktown’s START program, for brief ongoing therapy services.
• The successful candidate may also be responsible for facilitating Here to Help and Mindful Fathering Groups
• Services may be delivered onsite at one of our three locations or in the community as needed. The successful candidate will be responsible for the provision of a range of treatment services including individual, family and/or group counselling, brief therapy with children, youth, families and young adults.  Service is typically delivered in Cognitive behavioural, solution focused, or family systems informed therapy modalities. Trauma Assessments and treatment and intake assessment may also form part of the duties
• Service coordination and working collaboratively with Child Welfare and partner agencies is an important aspect of the role
• Work onsite with Violence Against Women shelters in west Toronto to provide therapy services and access to wider mental health services may be required
• To provide Solution Focused, single-session counselling within our walk-in services at our rapid access

Qualifications

• M.S.W., or equivalent Clinical Masters and several years clinical experience grounded in a strengths-based, systemic perspective with children, youth and families
• Must be a registered member in good standing with the college of social service workers or college of registered psychotherapists (RSW or RP)
• Minimum two years relevant children’s mental health experience with preference for experience using evidence based clinical models such as CBT, TF-CBT, and SFBT
• Experienced providing therapy services, including individual and group-based, to children, youth and families who have experienced intimate partner violence and/or child abuse.
• Enthusiasm and skill working to support change with a multi-challenged, diverse client population
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including report writing
• Superb interpersonal and organizational skills
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team setting
• Demonstrated skills and experience working in collaboration with other service providers
• Ability to work flexible hours including evenings is essential
• Vulnerable Sector Screening is required
• Assets include, experience running groups and fluency in a second language
• Access to a reliable vehicle is a definite asset

Reports to:  The Manager, Clinical and System Services
 
Yorktown Family Services is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity.

Please submit your resume and cover letter  by July 10, 2024.  Please quote “Competition #: 2024-12R” and Job title in the subject line.
Yorktown values the diversity of people and communities and is committed to equity and inclusion.  As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from qualified candidates who reflect the diversity of our communities.

Yorktown Family Services welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those considered for an interview will be contacted.