Job Title:   Family / Child and Youth Therapist –

Salary:    $68,692.91

Comp #:   2025-22

Start Date:   January 2026

Position:    Full-time position 35 hours per week – including 2 evening shifts

Location:   In-person at the Corner Hub, St. James Town (240 Wellesley St., East), YWHO Hub 1541 Jane, 2010 Eglinton Ave., and other Yorktown locations as needed.

Yorktown Family Services provides a comprehensive range of mental health services for children, youth, and families who are experiencing serious emotional/social/behavioral difficulties, along with several gender-based violence initiatives. Yorktown is committed to ensuring that all programs produce effective and positive outcomes for clients through evaluation, research, and the incorporation of evidence-based services and practices whenever possible. We are committed to inclusiveness and diversity at all levels of the organization.

Primary Function:

Yorktown requires a skilled and enthusiastic family and child therapist to provide clinical services to a diverse, multicultural population. This position is located within our brief services programs, with the majority of time spent providing counselling services at our What’s Up Walk-in, St. James Town location, as well as community outreach and service navigation support from time to time.

Applicants should be willing to engage with youth and families in a community-based setting in Toronto’s St. James Town neighborhood. The St. James Town What’s Up Walk-In is a unique collaboration between Yorktown and the St. James Town Corner Hub, providing single-session walk-in counselling to meet the needs of children, youth, and families of this diverse community. Support may also be needed at all of our rapid access programs, both virtual and in-person.

  Responsibilities:

• Provide single-session and brief services to support the Agency’s Walk-In service delivery model.
• Facilitate groups when required.
• Keep electronic health records up to date as per agency and professional college requirements.
• Service coordination and collaborative working with Child Welfare and partner agencies.
• Delivered services at the Centre or in the community as needed
• Service is typically delivered in cognitive-behavioral, solution-focused, or family systems-informed therapy modalities
• Ensure agency health and safety protocols are followed.

 Qualifications:

• M.S.W., or equivalent Clinical Master’s and several years of clinical experience grounded in a strengths-based, systemic perspective with children, youth, and families.
• Must be a registered member in good standing with the College of Social Service Workers or the College of Registered Psychotherapists (RSW or RP)
• Minimum two years relevant children’s mental health experience with preference for expertise using evidence-based clinical models such as CBT, TF-CBT, and SFBT
• Experience working with newcomer youth and families facing a variety of socio-economic challenges impacting mental health – food insecurity, housing instability, job precarity, etc.
• Enthusiasm and skill working to support change with a multi-challenged, diverse client population
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including report writing
• Superb interpersonal and organizational skills
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team setting and service providers
• Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings, is essential
• Complete a VSC
• Assets include experience running groups and fluency in a second language

Report to: the Manager of Brief Services and Intake

Yorktown Family Services is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity. Please submit your resume and cover letter in one document to hr@yorktownfamilyservices.com by December 30^th, 2025.

Please quote “Competition #: 2025-22– FCYTWU” in the subject line.

Yorktown values the diversity of people and communities and is committed to equity and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from qualified candidates who reflect the diversity of our communities.

The Ontario Human Rights Code makes an exception for nepotism and anti-nepotism policies. Section 24(1)(d) of the Code specifically permits employers to grant or withhold employment or advancement in employment to someone who is the spouse, child or parent of the employee. All job applicants will be requested to disclose if any relative is a current employee of Yorktown.

Family Services. As per Yorktown’s Nepotism Policy 2.9, job applicants will be asked to disclose family members in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code.

Yorktown Family Services welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those considered for an interview will be contacted.