Clinical Supervisor

Your Opportunity :

The Clinical Supervisor will be in a key leadership role within the Red Deer Children's Addiction and Mental Health portfolio. Working closely with the Manager and other clinical supervisors, you will provide leadership, mentorship and support to the clinicians within the walk-in single-session program. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the Sheldon Kennedy Center of Excellence with a supportive, encouraging multidisciplinary team.

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.

Required Qualifications : Additional Required Qualifications :

5 years post-licensure completion under the Health Professions Act and the ability to supervise Provisional Clinicians a requirement of this position.Must possess a minimum of a Masters degree.Experience in single-session modality is critical to this position.Previous clinical supervision experience is required.

Preferred Qualifications :

Knowledge and experience working in a clinical supervisory position. Experience working with children, youth and families. Experience in developing clinicians and supervising multiple students and provisional clinicians is considered an asset.