Job Description

Your Opportunity:

The Community Addiction and Mental Health Clinic (CAMHC) - Northwest is an adult outpatient clinic providing recovery and goal-directed assessment and treatment that is time-effective (up to one year or 20 sessions) for individuals with moderate to severe addiction and mental health concerns. We are focused on providing client and family centered care, as well as recovery focused treatment. CAMHC - NW offers a multidisciplinary team approach. Reporting to the program manager of NW Campus, the Clinical Supervisor is responsible for providing clinical supervision of staff, promoting best practices and standards, supporting quality patient care, and supporting change and new initiatives across the program. In addition to providing clinical leadership within the clinic, this position supports the manager by participating in a range of activities including: providing clinical input into employee performance evaluations; responding to day-to-day client/clinical concerns within the clinic; and determining staff scheduling and resource allocation across the clinic. The Clinical Supervisor participates in the planning, implementation and evaluation of treatment services. This position also provides professional practice leadership in their relevant discipline including planning, coordination, implementation and evaluation of continuing professional development activities for clinical staff. It also debriefs with staff, promotes best practices and standards established by the relevant professional associations. The role ensures that the standards of the outpatient services redesign are followed and in collaboration with other clinical supervisors and management, monitors the day-to-day operations, workload and practices of clinicians within the FMC outpatient Unit 24.

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. You will be required to supervise regulated staff requiring supervision to meet the 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
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Outpatient Unit 24 Community Addiction and Mental Health Clinic
• Primary Location: Foothills Medical Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 0.70
• Posting End Date: 20-SEP-2023
• Employee Class: Regular Part Time
• Date Available: 30-SEP-2023
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 4
• Shifts per cycle: 14
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $46.44
• Maximum Salary: $60.78
• 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 Alberta regulatory college. 5 years\' experience in providing mental health assessment and intervention, including restricted activity of psychosocial intervention. Additional Required Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years mental health experience in comprehensive mental health assessment, and provision of therapy, with service provision applying the recovery approach. Extensive knowledge of community resources tailored to clients with moderate to severe mental illness. Understanding of the Calgary Zone continuum of Addiction and Mental Health Services. Suicide risk training, psychosocial assessment and intervention. Ability to provide 4 hours of direct face to face client interaction in a 7.75-hour day. Ability to stand or sit for extended periods of time during performance of duties. 1 -3 years in a supervisory role in an outpatient addiction and mental health clinic or demonstrated leadership experience. Demonstrated ability to manage the day-to-day clinical concerns of a busy outpatient addiction and mental health clinic. Experience working in collaboration with larger organizational systems. Knowledge and experience with the Outpatient Services Redesign. Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. Ability to function effectively in dynamic situations and remain accountable. Demonstrated conflict resolution and change management skills. Demonstrated ability to be creative, flexible, well organized, efficient, self-directed, dependable, and a collaborative systems thinker. Strong computer skills. Preferred Qualifications:

For MSW, a Clinical Specialization is preferred. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI). Training and experience in providing and/or supervising Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Trauma-focused therapy (ex. Accelerate Resolution Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).

Please note:

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

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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