Clinical Supervisor

Are you an experienced clinician with exceptional clinical and leadership skills, eager to help others advance their practice? Do you want to apply your expertise in a challenging and rapidly growing field within Addiction and Mental Health? We have an exciting leadership opportunity to join our dynamic Addiction and Mental Health Supported Housing team. Our teams provide clinical support to approximately 1,000 beds within the Edmonton zone. The diverse and complex clinical needs of the residents are met by our dedicated AMH clinical staff, while the day-to-day care needs are typically managed by staff hired by our various operators. In addition to individual clinical support, our teams also provide clinical education for the front-line staff at these locations, a unique function in the housing sector. This combination of direct clinical support and support for non-clinical teams creates a unique model that promotes long-term success for residents to maintain housing and achieve recovery goals. We are seeking a Clinical Supervisor to provide professional leadership, planning, coordination, and clinical supervision for our AMH clinicians. The Clinical Supervisor will support best practices and clinical standards across all AMH Housing teams, working collaboratively with the Clinical Social Work Lead and the leadership team, and reporting to the Program Manager. This advanced clinical position involves: Providing direct expert clinical support and consultation to team members. Offering oversight and supervision of addiction and mental health services for clients with complex needs. Leading program development, service planning, staff development, competency evaluation, quality improvement, and service area evaluation or research activities. Consulting and collaborating effectively with relevant community partners.

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; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Active or eligible for full registration (not provisional) with the applicable regulatory college. A minimum of 5 years' experience in providing mental health assessment and intervention, including restricted activity of psychosocial intervention.

The Clinical Supervisor will work both independently and collaboratively with the AMH Housing Leadership Team to develop processes and practices. If you are ready to take on this unique challenge and contribute to a supportive and innovative team, we invite you to apply. Master's degree in psychology or social work (with Psychosocial Intervention Authorization). Masters/Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Therapy, including the assessment and provision of psychotherapy. Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or Psychiatric Nursing, including the assessment and provision of psychotherapy. Master's in Nursing preferred. For all disciplines an equivalent combination of education and experience will also be considered. Minimum of 5 years demonstrated clinical experience working within community addiction and mental health. Minimum 3 years of formal or informal supervisory experience. Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with partnerships in the provision of a full range of services, from consultation to treatment. Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with individuals, interdisciplinary teams and other departments. Demonstrated ability to be creative, flexible, well organized, efficient, self-directed, dependable, and a collaborative systems thinker.

Demonstrated understanding of the houseless-serving sector including population served, demand, various stakeholders involved and the intersection with AMH Housing. Demonstrated clinical expertise and reflective practice. Demonstrated understanding of information sharing, ethics and duty to report. Strong computer skills an asset. Experience using Connect Care is also an asset.