Primary Care Mental Health Counsellor

Posting End Date: December 15 2025
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Site: WRHA Community Health Services - Access Fort Garry
Department / Unit: Mental Health Shared Care Fort Garry
Anticipated Shift: Days;Evenings;Weekends
Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region! Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites services and organizations. Were united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.

Our Vision is Healthy People Vibrant Communities Care for All. To bring this vision to reality the WRHA Adult Mental Health Program provides an integrated and comprehensive range of mental health services and supports primarily for adult residents of Winnipeg across the healthcare continuum that support and promote recovery. Through collaboration and partnership across various health social service and community sectors the program strives to promote mental health and well-being for all to reduce inequities and the impact of mental health problems and to work towards sustainability of mentally healthy individuals and communities.
The Community Mental Health Program provides a range of services and supports to individuals within the Winnipeg Regional Health addition to crisis response services case management services treatment rehabilitation and support services the program has implemented a shared mental health care service; a collaborative mental health clinical therapy service within a Primary Care setting.
Working within an integrated team approach the Shared Care Counsellor will contribute to the overall improved health status of patients within a Primary Care Clinic through the provision of mental health clinical counselling interventions. The counsellor will work collaboratively and interactively with the Family Physician and the consulting psychiatrist functioning as clinician service coordinator and liaison with other sectors within the healthcare system as required. The counsellor will be required to function as an autonomous mental health practitioner within the Primary Care Team setting.
Minimum of 5 years mental health clinical counselling experience.

Baccalaureate degree in a relevant health or social science field required.
Clinical Masters counselling degree preferred; an equivalent post-graduate degree in a related field will be considered.
Comprehensive knowledge and advanced level of practice in clinical assessment and treatment models including individual couple family and group therapy interventions.
Advocate for and educate others on the Shared Care philosophy and program mandate.
Knowledge of and ability to work within the mental health recovery model.
Skilled at working with people with co-occurring mental health disorders.
Proficiency on Microsoft Word.
Comprehensive knowledge and skill in a range of intervention modalities including brief solution focused therapy Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Motivational Interviewing.
Knowledge of primary care principles.
Collaborative guiding principles in order to work within a Primary Care setting as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
Adheres to all safety and health regulations and safe work practices.
Ability to travel to meetings at various locations.
Flexible scheduling is required to balance client needs group work and consultation schedules.
Immunization Tuberculin testing as per Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) policy.

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre Deer Lodge Centre Golden West Centennial Lodge Grace Hospital Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg Pan Am Clinic River Park Gardens Victoria General Hospital WRHA corporate programs and WRHA community health services.

Wewelcome applications from people with disabilities. Manitoba healthcare employers in partnership with the Indigenous community are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.