Clinical Counsellor - Mental Wellness Substance Use
Top Benefits
About the role
This posting
This posting will be used to fill 1 term full-time position working 75 hours bi-weekly from ASAP to March 31, 2027, and will also be used to fill anticipatory permanent full-time positions. It will establish a 12-month eligibility list which may be used to fill similar term and perm positions.
This job is based in the thriving and diverse city of Whitehorse in the beautiful Yukon.
Who we are
The Government of Yukon's Mental Wellness and Substance Use Services division is known for its innovative, holistic, trauma informed and culturally accessible approach to providing mental health and substance use supports to all Yukoners. The Outpatient Counselling Team is a supportive, dynamic, knowledgeable, and compassionate team with a strengths-based culture of peer consultation and work-life balance. We work closely with clients using a trauma-informed care perspective to provide a variety of clinical counselling, short-term counselling and group counselling supports.
This job is dynamic and can involve a mix in any given day, depending on the needs of the service and your interests – you will never feel bored working here! All of our counsellors and social workers participate in offering one on one counselling services as well as group offerings and may train on different groups and modalities depending on need and interests.
Your role
Working as a member of the Mental Wellness and Substance Use branch, specifically the Outpatient Counselling Team, the Clinical Counsellor provides assessments, case formulation, counselling, and case management to adults struggling with mental health problems, diagnosed mental illness, and/or problematic substance use and addiction. Within the context of a client-centered care model, the Clinical Counsellor will perform duties that support assessment, treatment planning, crisis intervention, aftercare services, outreach counselling, consultation, and individual and group programming to facilitate and coordinate client access to services and support clients to meet their counselling goals.
The Clinical Counsellors will work as part of a team of mental wellness professionals in Whitehorse and will have the responsibility to provide appropriate and specialized assessment and evidence-based treatment services for a full range of presenting issues, including concurrent disorders and complex trauma.
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For more information on this job, please contact Cheri Van Delst, Clinical Supervisor Outpatient Counselling Team at 867-336-2090 or Cheri.VanDelst@yukon.ca
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For more information about the recruitment process, please contact Jaime Strachan, HR Consultant at 867-332-5768 or Jaime.Strachan@yukon.ca
Your benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer many additional financial and non-financial benefits.
- Government of Yukon’s many benefits
Your career, your home, your lifestyle
We are the Yukon public service. Every day, we come together to serve the people who live here and make a difference in so many ways. Here, you will find the diverse opportunities you desire to develop your career while enjoying a warm sense of community and vibrant artistic, cultural, and recreational amenities, all set in a spectacular natural environment.
As part of our team, your achievements and enjoyment in both your work and personal life will be valued as you explore the many opportunities the Yukon, and the Government of Yukon, has to offer.
Check out:
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Yukon Life
-
Working at Yukon government
-
Whitehorse Lifestyle
-
Yukon, Larger than Life
Important application and job requirements
Essential qualifications
Please submit your resume clearly demonstrating how you meet the qualifications below. Selections for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide in your resume.
- Completed master’s degree in social work, psychology, counselling, or other related disciplines; a PHD with an equivalent or related Masters or doctorate degree may also be considered
- Recent experience providing assessment, treatment planning, and individual counselling to adults over the age of 18
- Experience with facilitating group programming and/or workshops
- Knowledge and practice facilitating DBT individual and group programming is an asset
- Knowledge and practice providing trauma-focused counselling is an asset
It may be helpful for you to review “Prepare your resume and cover letter”.
Please note we will not accept resumes sent through email. A profile must be created, and resumes must be submitted in English, through E-recruitment. The official language used in the workplace is English.
Desired knowledge, skills and suitability
If selected for an interview, candidates should have, and may be assessed on, the following:
- Ability to demonstrate cultural humility, flexibility, and openness to learning.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment, serve as a positive team member, and accept and provide constructive feedback.
- Ability to effectively communicate with clients, community members, other agencies, and maintain professionalism and ethics in the workplace and community.
- Effective written and oral communication supported by strong conflict resolution skills
- Understanding of collaborative health care delivery systems, and the continuum of services available to clients at different stages of their lives,
- Understanding of two-eyed seeing and trauma informed approach to client care
- Knowledge, and the ability to work within, the stages of change model, i.e. ability to adapt interactions to support engagement and the wellness of clients.
- Effective written and oral communication supported by strong conflict resolution skills.
- Ability to complete and maintain comprehensive clinical records.
- Ability to employ evidence based strategies for different mental health presentations.
It may be helpful for you to review “The job interview process”.
Conditions of employment
You must meet the following conditions before being hired, or within the time frame noted.
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Verification of post-secondary degree(s)
-
Vulnerable Sector RCMP Security clearance
-
TB screening
-
Valid class 5 driver’s licence or equivalent
-
Standard First Aid and CPR within past 6 months
-
WHMIS 2015 (within one month of hire)
Job requirements
This job requires you to perform, and/or be exposed to, the following:
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Regularly exposed to traumatized, depressed, anxious, suicidal, emotional, angry and potentially aggressive clients and/or caregivers.
-
Workplace stresses arise from counseling clients with addictions and mental health who are experiencing issues of a life crisis (serious illness, suicide, death, violence, relationship breakdowns, etc.)
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May be exposed to wilderness and/or remote locations and environments; the incumbent may be required to travel within the Yukon on a regular basis during all weather conditions.
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May be required to drive to work in alternate locations such as school, physician office, etc.
Learn more
- For help on creating your E-recruitment profile, email E-Recruitment.clientsupport@yukon.caor phone 867-667-9453.
- See why the Government of Yukon has been identified as one of Canada’s top employers since 2014.
Eligibility List
12 months
Post Date
14 July 2025
Close Date
15 August 2025
About Yukon Government
The Yukon public service offers a diversity of career options in a stable work environment. As a Yukon government public servant, you have access to on-the-job learning, leadership courses, interdepartmental training and tuition reimbursement, and the daily opportunity to direct your career path.
As Yukon government public servants, we are able to make a genuine difference in our communities. Every day, we work closely with both the people we serve and with the decision-makers who guide the policies that affect our lives. A career with us allows you to be a part of that process and watch the results of your work come to life in the real world.
Our employment equity policy affirms equal access for women, aboriginal people and people with disabilities to government jobs.
The Yukon government has been recognized as a Top 100 Employer in Canada since 2014. This is due to the benefits, leave options and opportunities for training and career development.
Clinical Counsellor - Mental Wellness Substance Use
Top Benefits
About the role
This posting
This posting will be used to fill 1 term full-time position working 75 hours bi-weekly from ASAP to March 31, 2027, and will also be used to fill anticipatory permanent full-time positions. It will establish a 12-month eligibility list which may be used to fill similar term and perm positions.
This job is based in the thriving and diverse city of Whitehorse in the beautiful Yukon.
Who we are
The Government of Yukon's Mental Wellness and Substance Use Services division is known for its innovative, holistic, trauma informed and culturally accessible approach to providing mental health and substance use supports to all Yukoners. The Outpatient Counselling Team is a supportive, dynamic, knowledgeable, and compassionate team with a strengths-based culture of peer consultation and work-life balance. We work closely with clients using a trauma-informed care perspective to provide a variety of clinical counselling, short-term counselling and group counselling supports.
This job is dynamic and can involve a mix in any given day, depending on the needs of the service and your interests – you will never feel bored working here! All of our counsellors and social workers participate in offering one on one counselling services as well as group offerings and may train on different groups and modalities depending on need and interests.
Your role
Working as a member of the Mental Wellness and Substance Use branch, specifically the Outpatient Counselling Team, the Clinical Counsellor provides assessments, case formulation, counselling, and case management to adults struggling with mental health problems, diagnosed mental illness, and/or problematic substance use and addiction. Within the context of a client-centered care model, the Clinical Counsellor will perform duties that support assessment, treatment planning, crisis intervention, aftercare services, outreach counselling, consultation, and individual and group programming to facilitate and coordinate client access to services and support clients to meet their counselling goals.
The Clinical Counsellors will work as part of a team of mental wellness professionals in Whitehorse and will have the responsibility to provide appropriate and specialized assessment and evidence-based treatment services for a full range of presenting issues, including concurrent disorders and complex trauma.
-
For more information on this job, please contact Cheri Van Delst, Clinical Supervisor Outpatient Counselling Team at 867-336-2090 or Cheri.VanDelst@yukon.ca
-
For more information about the recruitment process, please contact Jaime Strachan, HR Consultant at 867-332-5768 or Jaime.Strachan@yukon.ca
Your benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer many additional financial and non-financial benefits.
- Government of Yukon’s many benefits
Your career, your home, your lifestyle
We are the Yukon public service. Every day, we come together to serve the people who live here and make a difference in so many ways. Here, you will find the diverse opportunities you desire to develop your career while enjoying a warm sense of community and vibrant artistic, cultural, and recreational amenities, all set in a spectacular natural environment.
As part of our team, your achievements and enjoyment in both your work and personal life will be valued as you explore the many opportunities the Yukon, and the Government of Yukon, has to offer.
Check out:
-
Yukon Life
-
Working at Yukon government
-
Whitehorse Lifestyle
-
Yukon, Larger than Life
Important application and job requirements
Essential qualifications
Please submit your resume clearly demonstrating how you meet the qualifications below. Selections for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide in your resume.
- Completed master’s degree in social work, psychology, counselling, or other related disciplines; a PHD with an equivalent or related Masters or doctorate degree may also be considered
- Recent experience providing assessment, treatment planning, and individual counselling to adults over the age of 18
- Experience with facilitating group programming and/or workshops
- Knowledge and practice facilitating DBT individual and group programming is an asset
- Knowledge and practice providing trauma-focused counselling is an asset
It may be helpful for you to review “Prepare your resume and cover letter”.
Please note we will not accept resumes sent through email. A profile must be created, and resumes must be submitted in English, through E-recruitment. The official language used in the workplace is English.
Desired knowledge, skills and suitability
If selected for an interview, candidates should have, and may be assessed on, the following:
- Ability to demonstrate cultural humility, flexibility, and openness to learning.
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment, serve as a positive team member, and accept and provide constructive feedback.
- Ability to effectively communicate with clients, community members, other agencies, and maintain professionalism and ethics in the workplace and community.
- Effective written and oral communication supported by strong conflict resolution skills
- Understanding of collaborative health care delivery systems, and the continuum of services available to clients at different stages of their lives,
- Understanding of two-eyed seeing and trauma informed approach to client care
- Knowledge, and the ability to work within, the stages of change model, i.e. ability to adapt interactions to support engagement and the wellness of clients.
- Effective written and oral communication supported by strong conflict resolution skills.
- Ability to complete and maintain comprehensive clinical records.
- Ability to employ evidence based strategies for different mental health presentations.
It may be helpful for you to review “The job interview process”.
Conditions of employment
You must meet the following conditions before being hired, or within the time frame noted.
-
Verification of post-secondary degree(s)
-
Vulnerable Sector RCMP Security clearance
-
TB screening
-
Valid class 5 driver’s licence or equivalent
-
Standard First Aid and CPR within past 6 months
-
WHMIS 2015 (within one month of hire)
Job requirements
This job requires you to perform, and/or be exposed to, the following:
-
Regularly exposed to traumatized, depressed, anxious, suicidal, emotional, angry and potentially aggressive clients and/or caregivers.
-
Workplace stresses arise from counseling clients with addictions and mental health who are experiencing issues of a life crisis (serious illness, suicide, death, violence, relationship breakdowns, etc.)
-
May be exposed to wilderness and/or remote locations and environments; the incumbent may be required to travel within the Yukon on a regular basis during all weather conditions.
-
May be required to drive to work in alternate locations such as school, physician office, etc.
Learn more
- For help on creating your E-recruitment profile, email E-Recruitment.clientsupport@yukon.caor phone 867-667-9453.
- See why the Government of Yukon has been identified as one of Canada’s top employers since 2014.
Eligibility List
12 months
Post Date
14 July 2025
Close Date
15 August 2025
About Yukon Government
The Yukon public service offers a diversity of career options in a stable work environment. As a Yukon government public servant, you have access to on-the-job learning, leadership courses, interdepartmental training and tuition reimbursement, and the daily opportunity to direct your career path.
As Yukon government public servants, we are able to make a genuine difference in our communities. Every day, we work closely with both the people we serve and with the decision-makers who guide the policies that affect our lives. A career with us allows you to be a part of that process and watch the results of your work come to life in the real world.
Our employment equity policy affirms equal access for women, aboriginal people and people with disabilities to government jobs.
The Yukon government has been recognized as a Top 100 Employer in Canada since 2014. This is due to the benefits, leave options and opportunities for training and career development.