Addictions Counsellor III
Your Opportunity:
Help Heal in the Heart of the Rockies. Join a passionate multidisciplinary team dedicated to fostering recovery, resilience, and well-being in Grande Cache, a welcoming mountain community in west-central Alberta. Surrounded by breathtaking landscapes, Grande Cache offers an exceptional lifestyle where sparkling lakes, rushing rivers, expansive valleys, and rugged peaks are part of everyday life. With panoramic views of 21 mountain peaks and two river valleys, the community serves as a gateway to year-round outdoor adventure. Located 183 km south of Grande Prairie and 143 km north of Hinton, Grande Cache is within easy reach of Jasper National Park. Whether you enjoy hiking, wildlife viewing, skiing, fishing, or simply a slower pace of life, Grande Cache provides a rare opportunity to combine a rewarding career with an unparalleled mountain lifestyle. As an Addiction Counsellor III, you will play a vital role in helping individuals and families build healthier futures through compassionate, client-centered, recovery-oriented care. As an Addictions Counsellor III, you will partner with healthcare professionals, community organizations, support services, and other stakeholders to support clients in achieving their recovery goals and enhancing their overall well-being. The successful candidate will bring cultural humility, sound judgment, and an understanding of the unique and often sensitive considerations involved in serving diverse populations and collaborating across cultures. Through respectful and inclusive practice, you will help create safe pathways to recovery and wellness for all clients. Advance recovery. Build meaningful connections. Experience mountain living at its best. Join us in Grande Cache. Apply today.
Description:
As an Addiction Counsellor III, you will provide quality, client focused, recovery based and culturally appropriate assessment, treatment, case management, crisis intervention, education and referral services for clients and their families; as well as community stabilization services. You will develop and implement treatment plans and provide a range of interventions which offer least intrusive and most appropriate services to clients and their families. You will also monitor and evaluate client progress and achievement of recovery goals and adapt treatment as needed. As an Addiction Counsellor III, you will depend on your excellent relationship building skills with clients, families, government staff and colleagues.
- Classification: Addictions Counsellor III
- Union: HSAA Prof/Tech
- Unit and Program: Mental Health and Addiction
- Primary Location: Grande Cache Provincial Bldg
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 07-AUG-2026
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- Date Available: 17-AUG-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $41.11
- Maximum Salary: $53.07
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
Bachelor's degree in Addictions or a combination of a bachelor's degree in a related field with course work in addictions. A related degree combined with a diploma related to addictions, or an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Individuals eligible for registration under the Health Professions Act (Alberta) must maintain active registration. Individuals may require authorization/permission under regulation to perform restricted psychosocial interventions and/or restricted activities.
Additional Required Qualifications:As Required.
Preferred Qualifications:Knowledge of local Indigenous communities and experience in Indigenous culture. Understanding the politically sensitive nature of working with multiple culturally diverse individuals and groups.
