Limited Competition

Limited to the Sahtu Region: Priority will be given to Deline Applicants (Coville Lake, Fort Good Hope, Norman Wells, Tulita and Deline)

Department Information

The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) offers challenging and exciting careers in health and social services delivery and administration in Canada’s North. The Territorial Authority has service locations in communities across the territory and a staff of more than 1,600 serving over 43,000 residents of the NWT and 5,900 residents of the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut. Challenging work, welcoming communities, and expanded opportunities are some of the benefits offered to employees of the NTHSSA.

Job Information

Make a difference in your community. Support healing, wellness, and resilience through culturally grounded mental health and addictions services. Join the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) as a Community Counsellor in Deline, where you will play a vital role in providing culturally relevant mental health, addictions, wellness, and family support services. This is more than a job. It is an prospect to build meaningful relationships, work alongside Elders and community partners, and contribute to lasting positive change in a vibrant Indigenous community

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide individual, family, and group counselling services.




- Support clients experiencing mental health, addictions, trauma, and family violence concerns.
- Conduct intake, assessment, treatment planning, and follow-up services.
- Complete suicide risk assessments and crisis intervention.
- Coordinate care and connect clients with cultural and community resources.
- Deliver wellness education, prevention programming, and community workshops.
- Collaborate with Elders, healthcare providers, schools, RCMP, and community partners.
- Participate in on-the-land and culturally relevant programming.

Key Qualifications:

- A Diploma in Social Sciences; and

(Social Service Work, Psychology, Counselling, Child and Youth)
- Two (2) years of direct counselling experience; and
- Has lived/is living in a Northern Indigenous community for a minimum of Two (2) years and has had interactions with wellness services as a service provider or participant.

GNWT Inquiries

Inquiries Only:

Health Recruitment

Department of Finance

Government of the Northwest Territories

YELLOWKNIFE CENTRE 5TH FLOOR

BOX 1320 YELLOWKNIFE NT X1A 2L9

Tel (867) 767-9154 Extension 14106

Fax (867) 873-0445

[email protected]

Note: If you do not receive electronic notification confirming receipt of your application, please follow up via telephone.

📌 Community Counsellor - Deline (Déline)
🏢 Government of the Northwest Territories
📍 Déline