Clinical Supervisor

This Clinical Supervisor position will provide clinical support, including informal and formal supervision to clinicians providing direct client care at the Lethbridge Opioid Dependency Program and Narcotic Transition Services, Lethbridge Overdose Prevention Site, Lethbridge Recovery Centre and Cardston Opioid Dependency Treatment. You'll serve as a cornerstone for professional excellence, fostering culture, quality and patient-centered care. Your primary focus will be providing clinical supervision to clinicians delivering addiction and/or mental health services within these four departments. Providing advanced practice knowledge, skills, judgement for professional practice within addiction and mental health with expertise in community addiction care and co-occurring mental health treatment. Working closely with leadership on the implementation of programming. Your core responsibilities include efficiently managing triage, treatment, and discharge processes, as well as workload assignment. Assessing client suitability, observe clinical sessions, conduct team case consultations, and provide timely support and guidance to clinical staff, particularly in challenging or urgent cases. Providing support, mentoring and education to the interdisciplinary team to establish and maintain services offered to clients. As a mentor and evaluator, assessing clinical competencies and facilitating staff orientation and participate in program development and evaluation. Including planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of continuing professional development activities for clinical staff. Promotion of current best practices and standards as established by the relevant professional associations will be incorporated into learning and development plans. Identifying process gaps and addressing risk management issues. You will work in collaboration with other clinical leads.

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.

Master's Degree in Psychology or Social Work. Active or eligible for full registration (not provisional) with College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP) or the Alberta College of Social Work (ACSW). A minimum of 5 years' experience in providing mental health assessment and intervention, including restricted activity of psychosocial intervention.

Equivalent education and experience may be considered and is defined as: A minimum of 5 years' experience providing mental health assessment and intervention and Bachelor's degree in social work with Restricted Psychosocial Intervention Authorization; bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy with experience in mental health assessment and intervention; Bachelor Degree or Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing; Bachelor of Science in Nursing with experience in mental health assessment and intervention. Advanced skills in assessment and intervention for individuals with addiction and mental health concerns, including crisis intervention skills. Competency in concurrent capable practice within addiction and mental health.

Experience providing clinical supervision within Addiction Mental Health services. Solid working knowledge of the continuum of Addiction and Mental Health services available within Alberta Health Services, and the range of community-based services that address the social determinants of health. -Experience with Connect Care -Experience working in Substance Use treatment services.