UGME Academic Associate Wellness Consultant

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The WELL Office/Bureau SOURCES is dedicated to supporting learners throughout their health professions training by creating, promoting and sustaining a culture of wellness and resilience within the academic and clinical learning environments. Based on an accreditation standard of the medical school, the office provides a safe and confidential venue to seek out resources that protect and enhance the learners’ health and well-being with the objective of working together to create a healthy learning environment.

The mission of the WELL Office/Bureau SOURCES is to provide Health Professions learners with counselling services, support groups and workshops to facilitate the development of skills and strategies to navigate through a critical and demanding point in their lives. The WELL Office/Bureau SOURCES also develops and implements an academic curriculum that promotes wellness for psychological, academic, physical and financial well-being.

Under the supervision of the Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, the Wellness Consultant provides expert short-term clinical counselling services to learners in Undergraduate Medical Education at the Montreal and Outaouais campuses. Although Wellness Consultants are assigned to particular health profession programs in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, at times they may be asked to support other programs or sites when there are surges in activity or leaves/absences.

Primary Responsibilities

Counselling and Case Management

• Conduct clinical assessments and provide one-on-one short-term counselling to learners who are in distress or seeking support.
• Maintain all necessary clinical documentation, including intake forms, consent forms, assessment forms, progress notes, and any other documentation in a private secure electronic folder.
• With the direction of the Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, determine the need for intervention in the event of an emerging crisis, conduct suicide assessments and interventions, and facilitate urgent and non-urgent recommendations. If necessary, launch the WELL Office/Bureau SOURCES crisis management protocol.
• Maintain communication with the Associate Deans about situations that require medium or long-term leaves as per established practice in each unit.
• Act as an intermediary for further care; collaborate with referral sources to simplify learner access to long-term counselling services in the community, if deemed necessary, or other support services at the University (e.g., healthcare team at the Wellness Hub, OSD, ORE, OSVRSE, MORSL etc.)
• Maintain up-to-date and comprehensive information on student services and resources across campus, as well as community-based mental health services that meet diverse needs of learners.
• Ensure that practice is up to date and informed by current best practices. Participate in professional development opportunities.

Hiring Unit: The WELL (Wellness Enhanced Lifelong Learning)
Supervisor: Dr. Nathalie Saad, Assistant Dean, Student Affairs
Work Location: Meredith Annex, 3708 Peel Street, Montreal
Hours/Week & Schedule: 6 hours/week (0.15 FTE).
Temporary Contract until June 30, 2023, with the possibility of being extended.

Education Required:

PhD or a graduate degree in clinical or counselling psychology, social work or a related field. Must be a member of a relevant professional order (eg. Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec (OCCOQ), l’Ordre des psychologue du Québec, Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.)

Qualifications Required:

• Experience in mental health program design and delivery.
• Experience in administration in medical education is an asset.
• A superior understanding of the issues of wellness/resilience in health professionals. Competence in stress management training (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) is an asset.
• Relevant experience in counseling in the educational context, preferably in the health professions. Specifically, experience working with learners in academic difficulty and from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds.

• Experience working in a clinical environment (e.g., hospital, CLSC, GMF) an asset.
• Understanding of the clinical training environment, including the educational framework and standard evaluation tools.
• Superb oral and written communication, leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively 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.
• Able to exercise patience, tact, judgment, and discretion/confidentiality.
• Able to work both independently and collaboratively; to create and work with teams.
• Able to work effectively with an adult learning model.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize the limits of one’s own scope of practice.

McGill University is committed to equity and diversity within its community and values academic rigour and excellence. We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities.

At McGill, research that reflects diverse intellectual traditions, methodologies, and modes of dissemination and translation is valued and encouraged. Candidates are invited to demonstrate their research impact both within and across academic disciplines and in other sectors, such as government, communities, or industry.

McGill further recognizes and fairly considers the impact of leaves (e.g., family care or health-related) that may contribute to career interruptions or slowdowns. Candidates are encouraged to signal any leave that affected productivity, or that may have had an effect on their career path. This information will be considered to ensure the equitable assessment of the candidate’s record.

McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated equity groups to self-identify. It further seeks to ensure the equitable treatment and full inclusion of persons with disabilities by striving for the implementation of universal design principles transversally, across all facets of the University community, and through accommodation policies and procedures . Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [email protected] .

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.