Clinical Supervisor – Addictions and Mental Health

Job title: Clinical Supervisor – Addictions and Mental Health

Company: Alberta Health Services

Job description: Your Opportunity:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Supervisor in Children, Youth, and Families, Addiction and Mental Health (CYF AMH) Community Mental Health Services! This advanced level clinical position works with CYF AMH Community Clinic teams to provide addiction and mental health services for clients with complex needs and provides expert clinical support and consultation to team members. This position will take a lead role in planning, developing, coordinating, and implementing a robust group intervention model in Community Clinics; orienting and enhancing group facilitation competencies within our clinician group; and monitoring, evaluating, and responding to outcomes. The Clinical Supervisor provides direct client care through group facilitation, carrying a small caseload, and providing support for Walk-In services. This position also provides leadership in and facilitation of broader program development, service planning, staff development, clinical skill competency evaluation, quality improvement, and service area evaluation and research activities. This position will work days with some early evening work when facilitating groups and in response to potential future changes in clinic hours. This position reports to the Program Manager for CYF AMH Community Mental Health Services.

Description:

As a Clinical Supervisor, you will provide clinical supervision for a discipline, practice area or service sector supporting clinicians to provide excellence in professional practice and enable quality, patient and family-centered care. In this clinical leadership role, you will provide clinical supervision to staff providing addiction and/or mental health services to individuals, families, and groups. This role involves supervision related to a range of assessment, mental health (psychosocial, and psychological interventions), and other activities. Supervision may be provided to regulated staff, those requiring supervision to meet regulatory requirements for practice, and/or to unregulated staff providing the restricted activity of psychosocial intervention. This may include observing clinical sessions, reviewing clinical documentation and written reports, conducting team case consultations and offering support, and providing guidance and direction to clinical staff with challenging and urgent cases in a timely manner. In your role, you may work with members of the interdisciplinary team, psychiatrists and community partners in support of effective professional and collaborative practice. You may contribute to the planning, implementation and evaluation of mental health treatment services in a hospital setting or community. You may also identify and address gaps in clinical practice as well as facilitate addressing of system level gaps and risk management issues. You may provide support to leadership in the hiring, orientation and performance evaluation of clinical staff.

• Classification: Clinical Supervisor AMH CL
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Department: Northgate.Childrens Mentl Hlth
• Primary Location: Rutherford Health Centre
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 0.90
• Posting End Date: 02-FEB-2021
• Employee Class: Regular Part Time
• Date Available: 08-MAR-2021
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 9
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $44.52
• Maximum Salary: $58.27
• Vehicle Requirement: Driver’s License, Vehicle Required

Required Qualifications:

Master’s Degree in Psychology or Social Work or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Active or eligible for registration with the applicable regulatory body. Must hold general registration prior to starting in the position. 5 years’ experience in providing mental health assessment and intervention, including restricted activity of psychosocial intervention. Additional Required Qualifications:

Authorization to perform the restricted activity of psychosocial intervention is required. Current CPR (Health Care Provider, Level C). Driver’s License and motor vehicle is required. At least 3 years’ experience in child and adolescent mental health. Advanced knowledge and skill in mental health assessment and intervention, including significant experience in group facilitation. Experience in program development, implementation, and evaluation. Preferred Qualifications:

As Required.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 of the posting end date indicated.

Important:

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is committed to ensuring the safety of staff and patients and requires all NEW employees to provide a satisfactory criminal record check (CRC) and/or Vulnerable Sector Search(VSS) prior to the start of their employment. The CRC/VSS must be specific to the role at AHS and must be dated no more than 90 days prior to the date on your written offer from AHS.

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Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.

We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Expected salary:

Location: Edmonton, AB

Job date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 03:03:37 GMT