Family / Child and Youth Therapist - within the What’s Up Walk-in - Yorktown Family Services

Job Title: Family / Child and Youth Therapist - within the What’s Up Walk-in
Salary: $68,012.78
Comp #: 2025-01
Start Date: February 2025
Position: Full-time position 35 hours per week – including 2 evening shifts
Location: In-person at the Corner Hub, St. James Town (240 Wellesley St., East) Centre Francophone deToronto, YWHO Hub 1541 Jane, 2010 Eglinton Ave. and other Yorktown locations as needed)

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 in-person and virtual therapy within a single-session model.

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 brief services programs, with majority of time spent providing counselling service at our What’s Up Walk-in, St. James Town location, as well as community outreach and service navigation support from time to time.

Responsibilities

1. A primary component of this position will be providing single session and brief services to support the Agency’s Walk-In service delivery model
2. Single Session counselling utilizing best practices such as solution focused brief therapy
3. Service coordination and working collaboratively with Child Welfare and partner agencies is an important aspect of the role
4. Services may be delivered at the Centre or in the community as needed
5. Timely writing of reports and session notes within a 24-hour period after end of session
6. Service is typically delivered in Cognitive behavioral, solution focused, or family systems informed therapy modalities
7. Working collaboratively with other therapists and St. James Town Hub staff to support staff to facilitate excellent client experiences with the Yorktown team

Qualifications

1. M.S.W., or equivalent Clinical Masters and several years clinical experience grounded in a strengths-based, systemic perspective with children, youth and families
2. Must be a registered member in good standing with the college of social service workers or college of registered psychotherapists (RSW or RP)
3. 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
4. Experience working with newcomer youth and families facing a variety of socio-economic challenges impacting mental health – food insecurity, housing instability, job precarity, etc.
5. Enthusiasm and skill working to support change with a multi-challenged, diverse client population
6. Excellent oral and written communication skills, including report writing
7. Superb interpersonal and organizational skills
8. Experience working in a multidisciplinary team setting
9. Demonstrated skills and experience working in collaboration with other service providers
10. Ability to work flexible hours including evenings is essential
11. Vulnerable Sector Screening is required
12. Assets include, experience running groups and fluency in a second language
13. Access to a reliable vehicle is a definite asset

Reports to the Manager of Brief Services and Intake

Yorktown Family Services is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity. Please submit your resume and cover letter by February 7, 2025. Please quote “Competition 2025-01 and Job title Family / Child and Youth Therapist (within the What’s Up Walk-in), 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.

The Ontario Human Rights Code makes an exception for nepotism and anti-nepotism policies. Section 24(1)(d) of the Code specifically permits employers to grant or withhold employment or advancement in employment to someone who is the spouse, child or parent of the employee. All job applicants will be requested to disclose if any relative is a current employee of Yorktown.

Family Services. As per Yorktown’s Nepotism Policy 2.9, job applicants will be asked to disclose family members in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code.

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.