JOB OPPORTUNITY: Shift Program Counsellor
Shift Program Counsellor: Competition #30-26
Family Services of Greater Vancouver (FSGV) is seeking an experienced clinical counsellor to join our team in a unique role supporting the provincial Shift BC program (Shift). As an FSGV employee, you will manage a dedicated caseload of Shift participants while working as part of FSGV’s clinical team and in close collaboration with Shift's interdisciplinary partners.
Shift is British Columbia's secondary and tertiary prevention program for individuals experiencing elevated risk factors associated with radicalization to violence/violent extremism. Using a modified Hub Model, the program provides voluntary, non-punitive, and non-investigative support to help participants disengage from ideologically motivated violence by addressing the underlying factors that contribute to risk, including trauma, social isolation, identity-related challenges, and other complex needs. Shift focuses on behavioural change and community safety, not changing beliefs or ideologies.
In this role, you will provide specialized assessment, therapeutic counselling, case coordination, and interdisciplinary consultation. Counsellors approach this work from a trauma-informed, intersectional, and strengths-based lens, supporting participants in fostering safety, stability, community connection, and pro-social engagement through collaborative, participant-centred interventions.
We Value You- Benefits:
- Flexible scheduling to accommodate life/work balance
- Three weeks’ vacation for full-time staff * entitlement increases from there
- Three paid household leave days a year*
- Two paid Wellness Days a year
- Paid sick days
- Two and a half paid Agency days for full-time staff *
- Five paid days for education leave/year
- One paid Moving Day/year
- Subsidized professional association annual dues (if applicable)
- Referral bonus program
- Milestone celebrations
- On-the-job education through various Lunch and Learns
- Safe and Respectful Work Environment
- Opportunities for Growth
- Ongoing support, mentoring, and recognition to help with engagement and career growth
- A work culture that values transparency, teamwork, learning, fairness, and integrity
- (pro-rated for part-time staff)
Health and Wellness Resources: **
- Generous health/dental benefits after 3 months.
- Three flex benefit options to meet your individualized needs
- Option of psychological/counselling services (up to $1500/year)
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Long-Term Disability Plan
- Insurance, Travel insurance, ++
** (eligible for staff working 20+ hours per week)
Pension: Municipal Pension Plan enrollment for eligible employees
Work Hours: 21 hours per week
Salary: GS13 Step 1 $37.89 per hour
Location: 1638 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC with the possibility of working Hybrid
Posting End Date: Posting will remain open until filled
Education, Training, Experience
- Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology, Social Work, or equivalent degree (MA, M.Ed., MSW), and registered as an RCC or RSW.
- Minimum of 3 years’ relevant counselling experience working with individuals experiencing trauma and complex psychosocial needs
- Training in trauma-informed counselling, somatic approaches, parts-work/Internal Family Systems-informed approaches, and expressive arts-based interventions
- Experience with collaborative case planning, crisis response, and interdisciplinary consultation is an asset
- Experience or interest in violence prevention, disengagement work, or working with individuals vulnerable to radicalization to violence is an asset
Role Qualifications and Skills include, but are not limited to
- Strong understanding of trauma-informed practice and the neurobiological impacts of trauma
- Knowledge of best practices in trauma treatment, including somatic approaches, expressive arts-based approaches, attachment work, and parts-work/IFS-informed approaches
- Excellent clinical counselling skills, including engagement, assessment, risk-assessment, safety planning, and intervention
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary team environment
- Knowledge, skills, and experience working with diverse populations impacted by trauma, systemic barriers, marginalization, poverty, abuse, addiction, and mental health concerns
- Demonstrated commitment to trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, culturally responsive, and intersectional practice
- Ability to approach participants from a non-judgmental, strengths-based, and relationship-centred lens
- Strong communication, organization, and documentation skills
Additional Requirements
- Successful completion of a Criminal Record Check
- Registered (or eligible for registration) with an appropriate professional body (e.g., BCACC, BC College of Social Workers)
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Short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. We thank all candidates and searchers for your interest.
We believe in the power of inclusion and the power of enabling all our staff to thrive by embracing diversity and fostering equality. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all staff that dismantles barriers and creates opportunities. Our organization is committed to recruiting a diverse workforce representing the communities we proudly serve while encompassing the principles of equity, inclusion, and diversity. Decisions regarding recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, and all other terms and conditions of employment will be made without regard to race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, political beliefs, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or non-applicable criminal condition.
If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process or are an internal candidate, please email your resume and cover letter (indicating the competition number
#30-26 in the email subject line) to
[email protected].
We gratefully acknowledge that our programs are delivered on traditional and ancestral lands and waters of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil Waututh), Qayqayt, Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwekwetlem, Semiahmoo, Matsqui, and Tsawwassen First Nations. Huy ch q’u.
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When you work with us, you will join a caring team of people who will value you as a whole person. You will also have the opportunity to do meaningful, leading-edge work that has a direct impact on the local community.
At Family Services of Greater Vancouver, we have been helping people in crisis since 1928. We are a non-profit working to support and empower individuals, families, and communities. We offer programs and services designed to help people develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence to create positive change in their lives. Our staff operates from an evidence-based, trauma-informed lens to meet people where they are and get them where they want to be.
We help people develop skills and knowledge, empowering our neighbours to create positive change in their lives. Our team is made up of more than 360 staff, including expert counsellors and support workers who provide compassionate, client-centred care to youth experiencing homelessness, families and children impacted by trauma, victims of domestic violence, and other vulnerable people from an evidence-based, trauma-informed lens. We believe in building a brighter future for all British Columbians and providing a supportive and inclusive workplace for all our staff.
