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About the Role
The Office of Learner Affairs (OLA) supports learners in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine's various programs. As a Learner Life Specialist, you will provide mental health and learning environment intervention and support to learners through needs assessment, navigation, and case management. You will facilitate care plan development, offer short-term counseling, and act as a first point of contact for concerns about the learning environment.
Responsibilities
- Screen learners to determine suitability for short-term counselling, providing clinical counselling and psychotherapy and making referrals to appropriate resources
- Determine life-threatening situations, risk of self-harm or harm to others and independently apply appropriate interventions
- Develop and implement components of treatment plans based on appropriate therapeutic approaches
- Provide case management support to learners requiring the coordination of multiple services
- Advise groups on how to develop strategies and skills to address their emotional and behavioural concerns
- Foster positive relationships with campus resources and community health services providers
Requirements
- Master's Degree in social work, occupational therapy, counselling/psychotherapy or equivalent, and must be in good standing with professional college
- Minimum five years experience counseling in the educational context, preferably health professions education with experience at the Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME) and/or Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) level
- Experience working with health professional learners in academic difficulty and from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds
- Superior understanding of the issues of physician health, particularly those related to physicians in training
- Familiarity with trauma-informed approaches as well as with anti-oppression/anti-racism frameworks
- Experience leading and facilitating group workshops, seminars and outreach activities
- Experience developing educational tools and identifying emerging trends/patterns and developing recommendations
- Experience working in a highly diverse community with learners from varied backgrounds and a variety of age groups, presenting a range of difficulties and personal issues
- Advanced proficiency, including MS Office Suite and Adobe Professional
- Skill in working with university-aged young adults, and individuals in crisis
- Superb oral and written communication, leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Expert communicator with staff and senior academic administrators about issues facing learners in crisis and make recommendations on strategy
- Able to work effectively and collaboratively with professional staff in the university, to set up networks of aid and response for learners in difficulty
- Demonstrated ability to exercise patience, tact, judgment and discretion
- Must be able to relate to adult learners, staff, and faculty in ways that build confidence and trust
- Understanding of and experience with an adult learning model
- Demonstrated ability to recognize the limits of one's own scope of practice
- Ability and willingness to travel between the St. George and Mississauga campuses
Skills
- MS Office Suite
- Adobe Professional
- Working with university-aged young adults
- Working with individuals in crisis
- Oral communication
- Written communication
- Leadership
- Organizational skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication with staff and senior academic administrators
- Collaboration with professional staff
- Patience
- Tact
- Judgment
- Discretion
- Relating to adult learners, staff, and faculty
- Adult learning model
Location
- St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Term
Experience Level
- Minimum five years experience counseling in the educational context
Education Level
- Master's Degree in social work, occupational therapy, counselling/psychotherapy or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $97,348. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $124,491.
About the Company
- Home to over 40 departments and institutes, the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine lies at the heart of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network and is a global leader in ground-breaking research and education, spanning clinical medicine, basic science and the rehabilitation sciences sectors.
Equal Opportunity
- Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.