• PART-TIME
• Temporary

APPLICATION PROCESS:

• Reference Job Posting #2024-075 in email subject line.
• Email cover letter & resume (pdf or word document) to WHChr@womenshealthclinic.org

Hours:  18 months in total -first 12 months (0.6375 FTE / 25.5 hrs per week) then 6 months (0.80 FTE/32 hrs per week)

Term:   Start December 6, 2024 – December 5, 2025 followed by December 6, 2025 to June 6, 2026

Parenting Leave will expire subject to a minimum of two (2) weeks notice. 

Anticipated Shifts:   Must be available weekdays, evenings and Saturdays

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.

For a full position description go to: https://womenshealthclinic.org/careers

WHC is committed to the development of a staff team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage persons who reflect the diversity of our clients to apply. We welcome and encourage applications from all women*, racialized and Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQ* community. We invite applicants who can contribute to the mission, vision and values of WHC, and the achievement of its strategic plan through collaboration and teamwork.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however we will only contact candidates we wish to interview.