Chief Clinical Officer

Hull Services (Hull) has been a pillar in providing mental health and behavioural support to children, youth, and families in Calgary, Alberta, and beyond, since our founding in 1962. Specializing in trauma-informed care, we work with individuals who have faced significant adversities, including developmental trauma, abuse, neglect, abandonment, and poverty. With a dedicated team of over 700 staff and an annual operating budget of approximately $54 million, Hull is a national leader in child and youth mental health services. Our services are driven by trauma and adversity-informed care (including the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics), along with a strengths-based, resilience-enhancing emphasis. We offer a range of programs that support over 8,000 individuals annually, helping them build resilience, heal from trauma, and unlock their full potential. Serving Indigenous and culturally diverse communities, we are committed to creating safe, healing environments where young people and families thrive within supportive communities. This includes a deep and ongoing commitment to building respectful, collaborative relationships with indigenous communities, including Elders and Knowledge Keepers who are connected to our work, ensuring that their guidance, wisdom and cultural perspectives meaningfully inform our practices, environments, and approaches to care. We are a CARF-certified organization.

Bull Services is seeking a Chief Clinical Officer (CCO), a new and pivotal executive leadership role, to shape and advance Hull’s clinical vision across its diverse continuum of programs. This role ensures the integration, consistency, and excellence of evidence-based services grounded in trauma and adversity-informed care and strengths-based, resilience-enhancing practices. The CCO leads a team of senior clinical and program leaders, and provides strategic oversight of nursing, applied research, training, education, and clinical program design, implementation, and evaluation, strengthening quality and outcomes while aligning clinical practice with Hull’s mission to build resilience and foster healing within supportive communities.

Working closely with the Executive Leadership Team, the CCO is both a visionary leader and a system influencer, driving innovation, applied research, incubating new models and continuous improvement across the organization. The role champions applied research, collaborates with internal and external partners, and positions Hull as a leader in child and youth mental health, traumatology, and community-based care. With accountability for clinical governance, staff leadership, and service expansion, the CCO ensures that all programs reflect Hull’s core values of purpose, inclusion, connection, knowledge, and space. This leader will play a critical role in guiding organizational growth, strengthening partnerships, and advancing a future-focused clinical strategy that meets the evolving needs of children, families, and communities.

The ideal candidate will hold a master’s degree in psychology, social work, counselling, nursing, or a related discipline, with relevant clinical registration preferred, and will bring at least 15 years of clinical experience in mental health or related fields, including a minimum of 10 years in senior or executive leadership roles. They will be a seasoned clinical executive with demonstrated experience leading large, complex, multi-program service systems and driving clinical transformation, including program integration, service redesign, and model evolution within child and youth mental health, healthcare, or complex social services environments. The candidate will have deep expertise in trauma and adversity-informed care, along with strengths-based, resilience-enhancing services. They will also bring strong knowledge of accreditation standards such as CARF, experience collaborating across government and cross-sector partners, and a track record of using research, evaluation, and evidence-based practice to inform clinical decision-making. In addition, they will demonstrate an understanding of organizational operations and resource alignment, with lived experience in behavioural health considered an asset.

The Chief Clinical Officer will be a visionary and transformational clinical leader who can define and advance a clear, future-focused model of care while integrating and modernizing complex service systems. They will bring strong systems thinking and business acumen, with the ability to translate clinical innovation into scalable, sustainable models and to operate effectively at the intersection of clinical practice, system design, and organizational decision-making. An exceptional communicator and influential collaborator, they will build trust across diverse stakeholders, translate clinical complexity into clear direction, and foster partnerships that support system-wide impact. They will be entrepreneurial and evidence-driven, balancing innovation with accountability, ethical integrity, and rigorous outcome measurement, while assessing readiness for scale and managing risk in dynamic environments. Deeply values-driven and aligned with Hull’s mission, they will inspire a culture of clinical excellence, learning, and continuous improvement.

Janet Soles and Associates has been retained to conduct this search on behalf of Hull Services. For more information about this opportunity or to apply, please send your curriculum vitae and letter of interest with the Subject Line - CCO - Hull Services in confidence to apply@jssearch.ca

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