Job Description

Your Opportunity:
A key leadership role, the Mental Health and Addiction Manager of Inpatient Psychiatry and the Psychiatric Assessment Nursing (PAN) team needs an energetic, strengths-based leader ready for their next challenge. In this role, you'll provide direction and leadership to dynamic teams in a fast-paced, patient-and family-centred environment with a heightened focus on trauma-informed practice, as well as a patient and staff safety. In this role, you'll support the continuum of Mental Health and Addiction care for patients and their families by working collaboratively with physicians and stakeholders to deliver services to those in need of mental health and addiction care. Your clinical background, combined with leadership skills, and the ability to grow and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders will be keys to your success. This position is based out of Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge.
Description:
As the Manager of Mental Health and Addiction, Inpatient Psychiatry Unit and PAN, you will participate in strategic and operational planning, including active participation in the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical policies, procedures, and program plans. In this role, you will use available tools and data to monitor patient outcomes, service data, bed utilization, etc., to inform operational decisions, and collaborate with other program and site managers to ensure effective program integration. Using effective change management practices, you will manage initiatives to improve the overall clinical operations within your portfolio. As the Manager, you will support a safe, healthy, and inclusive workplace and foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, integration, and consistency of integrated, patient-and family-focused care. In this role, you will ensure the appropriate allocation of human, physical, and fiscal resources. This includes managing and reporting on the operating budget and encompasses budget forecasting and expenditure monitoring in accordance with established Recovery Alberta policies and practices. You will be the first point of contact for local physician requests, concerns, issues, or other patient care needs. In this role, you will hold accountability to ensure patient safety standards and protocols are followed in all patient care delivery, as well as triage and manage most patient/family concerns (as the first point of contact), escalating issues as appropriate.

Transition Company:

Recovery Alberta

Classification:

Manager

Union:

Exempt

Unit and Program:

Mental Health and Addiciton

Primary Location:

Chinook Regional Hospital

Location Details:

As Per Location

Employee Class:

Regular Full Time

FTE:

1.00

Posting End Date:

12-SEP-2025

Date Available:

22-SEP-2025

Hours per Shift:

7.75

Length of Shift in weeks:

2

Shifts per cycle:

10

Shift Pattern:

Days

Days Off:

Saturday/Sunday

Minimum Salary:

$40.19

Maximum Salary:

$68.93

Vehicle Requirement:

Driver's License, Vehicle Provided

Required Qualifications:

Addiction, Mental Health, or Nursing, or related healthcare field. Master's degree preferred. Equivalencies of education and experience may be considered. Must be currently registered or eligible for registration with your regulatory college in Alberta. A minimum of 7 years of work experience delivering Addiction & Mental Health services, ideally in an organization of significant size, complexity, and diversity. A minimum of 5 years of experience in progressively responsible leadership roles delivering Addiction and Mental Health services. A demonstrated clear pattern of professional and personal development must be evident.

Additional Required Qualifications:

The ideal candidate for this position has direct Mental Health and Addiction experience, with specialized education and training to support service delivery. Possesses a patient-and family-focused orientation and commitment to providing quality Mental Health and Addiction services. Requires leadership skills, including demonstrated ability and comfort with decision-making responsibilities, excellent analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills, and a track record of executing strategy and delivering strategic results. Demonstrated ability to create innovated solutions for complex and diverse issues, as well as using effective change management strategies in implementation. As the Manager, you can develop systems and manage human, financial, and physical resources. The Manager will have excellent communication skills, with a proven record of building, leading, and participating in teams. This person will be comfortable with coaching and teaching and is able to inspire and build confidence in others. In addition, this individual will have a strong history in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's level degree or higher is preferred, ideally within a healthcare discipline. Non-violent crisis intervention training preferred. Suicide intervention training preferred. First Aid training preferred. Incident Command System training and experience preferred.