Alcohol & Drug Counsellor – Two

Reporting to the Treatment Centre Manager, the Alcohol and Drug Counsellor provides direct addictions counselling services and healing programs and activities to First Nation clients in individual and group settings at the ‘Na̱mg̱is Treatment Centre in the Northern Vancouver Island Community of Alert Bay.

Job Responsibilities

• Providing direct one-to-one counselling to clients
• Treatment planning and implementation
• Group facilitation
• Life skills coaching
• Crisis intervention and referral, including crisis line response

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Addiction’s counselling certification from a recognized counselling association
• Member in good standing with a recognized counselling association
• A minimum 2 years’ related experience, preferably in a First Nation environment
• Pharmacology (medical aspects), withdrawal management, etc.
• Twelve Steps ...