Who We Are:

arc programs exists to create thriving communities, free of systemic barriers and full of belonging, equity, and hope. We have a bold vision to ensure everyone in our communities feels connected and cared for, and we are excited to be expanding our team to help us accelerate our impact!

We're Hiring!

We are now accepting applications for a Behaviour and Family Support Counsellor to work in our Castlegar Office, serving the West Kootenays.

Using an outreach, community-based, family-centered service delivery approach

The Behaviour and Family Support Counsellor will provide various services to families and their children / youth aged 0-18, who are eligible for Children and Youth with Support Needs (CYSN) services through the Ministry for Children and Family Development (MCFD).

Hours / Schedule:

• Full-Time, Temporary Position for a
  3-Month Contract
• Based on a 40-hours per week.

Responsibilities:

The Behaviour and Family Support Counsellor will work with children and youth with an Autism Spectrum diagnosis; developmental disabilities; an FASD diagnosis; with complex developmental behavioural and/or medical conditions or other support needs.

The Behaviour and Family Support Counsellor responsibilities Include:

• Providing in-home assessment, education, support, skill building and behaviours intervention and support.
• Coordinating services with other community partners and stakeholders.
• Increasing the capacity of families served to respond effectively to their child or youths individual needs, and to promote a strong parent-child relationship.
  
• Creating a personalized support plan that may involve strategies to address unmet needs expressed through behavior using intervention techniques, enhancing coping and parenting skills, increasing parental capacity, and fostering community and natural supports.
  
• Providing behaviour therapy and positive parenting and other parenting and child coping strategies with a behaviour and trauma informed approach and developmental lens
  

Other responsibilities include:

• Building relationships and connections within the community to improve service integration.
• Completing Functional Behaviour Analysis as required.
  Completing Positive Behaviour Support Plans as required.
  
• Appling culturally safe and agile, trauma informed, relational and person / family- centered modalities.
  

Preferred Education and Experience:

A bachelors degree in a related discipline (BSW / BA-Psychology / BA- CYC etc.) will be with experience directly related to working with Child and Youth with Support Needs (CYSN) clients, such as:

• Behavioural Consultant or Intervention Services
  
• Child, youth, and family services program.

Other Requirements:

Given the nature of our work, please note that all shortlisted candidates:

• Need a valid BC Driver's License, regional insurance, and a reliable personal vehicle.
  
• Must undergo a screening process, including a criminal record search.

Wage / Benefits:

$29.75 $31.25per hour based on experience and education.
Upon successful completion of a trial period, this position is eligible for a full benefit package (including dental plan, vision coverage, life insurance, extended medical coverage, long-term disability plan, and RRSP or TFSA contributions); as well as accrued vacation and sick time at 5.8% - above BC Employment Standards!
Why were an employer of choice!

Like most in the social services sector, arc programs is an equal-opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and ensure everyone on the team demonstrates cultural safety and sensitivity of all populations we serve.

But we believe there is more to our work culture that promotes high levels of employee satisfaction and retention

We are inclusive.

We use an anti-oppressive lens to inform our work with folx of all cultures, races, ethnic backgrounds, disabilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, socio-economic status, religions, and other oppressions to enhance our approach to equality.

We are ever-evolving.

We recruit and retain highly skilled staff and support their development through training, education, research, best practices, and innovation.

We foster a culture of continuous learning and lean into diverse perspectives, encouraging all voices to be heard and honouring the wisdom of Metaptmumk - all-around seeing', a multidimensional way of knowing, doing and being that reinforces positive, reciprocal relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, while decolonizing western knowledge and supporting an intersectional lens to cultivate warm, reciprocal relationships while engaging meaningfully with the provincial community social services sector, Indigenous communities, and agencies.

Discover more about our agency services and work culture at arcprograms.com.

If you feel a connection to our values and work, wed love to hear from you!

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We appreciate your interest, but kindly note that due to the high number of applications we receive, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

We acknowledge that arc programs is situated in the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the Syilx peoples in the Okanagan and West Kootenay region. We also acknowledge the Mtis and Inuit peoples who reside in these regions.