Your Opportunity:

The Addiction and Mental Health Adult Outreach team is looking for a highly skilled and motivated, dynamic individual to join our team. As a member of a multi-disciplinary team, the Clinical Supervisor is responsible for providing clinical supervision of staff, promoting best practices and standards, and ensuring the continuation of professional development opportunities for clinical staff. You will be responsible for participating in program development and evaluation, identifying process gaps and risk management issues, ensuring high standards of service delivery through collaborative participation, providing input to management for the annual performance of clinical staff, participating in interviewing clinical staff and staff orientation in addition to assessing clinical competencies and providing varied learning opportunities to staff. You will be required to maintain and develop your own professional clinical and supervisory competencies through participation in a variety of learning opportunities such as seminars, workshops and conferences. Your core responsibilities include efficiently managing the triage, treatment and discharge processes and workload assignment; determining client suitability; observing clinical sessions; conducting team case consultations and offering support; providing guidance and direction to clinical staff with challenging and urgent cases in a timely manner. You will also be required to consult and liaise with external agencies as appropriate in addition to developing and maintaining collaborative relationships the key stakeholders, including physicians and psychiatrists, as well as representing Addiction & Mental Health in the community by participating in initiatives, programming, capacity building and consultations are critical components of this position.

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
• Unit and Program: Addiction and Mental Health Outreach
• Primary Location: Regional Resource Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 10-APR-2023
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
• Date Available: 24-APR-2023
• Temporary End Date: 27-OCT-2023
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 4
• Shifts per cycle: 20
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $45.53
• Maximum Salary: $59.59
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

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: Diploma or bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in nursing with: related Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree including training in mental health assessment and provision of psychotherapy or experience in mental health assessment and provision of psychotherapy. Authorization to do restricted psycho-social intervention is required. Minimum of 2 years of supervisory or advanced level experience. Knowledge of Addiction & Mental Health Programs and community and crisis resources required. Excellent communication skills and ability to form strong working relationships with community stakeholders required. Must be flexible, adaptable to change and able to prioritize competing demands on time. NVCI and suicide intervention training required. Preferred Qualifications: BLS preferred. A combination of education and work experience may be considered for this position.