Clinical Supervisor

Wood Buffalo Addiction and Mental Health Services (WAMHS)-Fort McMurray is looking for an experienced, skilled, enthusiastic, and dynamic leader to fill the position of clinical supervisor for it's community mental health and addiction services. This is a permanent fulltime position that will support Recovery Alberta's priority of enhancing community care options for Albertans. Reporting to the manager, the clinical supervisor is responsible for providing clinical supervision of interdisciplinary team, promoting best practices and standards, supporting quality patient care, and supporting change and new initiatives across the program. In addition to providing clinical leadership within the clinic, this position supports the manager by participating in a range of activities including: providing clinical input into employee performance evaluations; responding to day-to-day client/clinical concerns within the clinic; and determining staff scheduling and resource allocation across the clinic. In addition to a competitive rate of pay, Recovery Alberta currently has a Fort McMurray Allowance in place to an annual maximum of $12,480. This allowance is non-pensionable and is payable on an hourly basis for all hours paid at the basic rate of pay This position has transitioned to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you agree to and will become an employee of Recovery Alberta.

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. Supervision may be provided to regulated staff, those requiring supervision to meet 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.

Minimum of 5 years addiction & mental health experience as therapist/counsellor preferably in a community setting required. Individual and group therapy experience required. Ability to provide direct face to face client interaction, current class 5 driver's license.

Demonstrated ability to manage the day-to-day clinical concerns of a busy outpatient addiction and mental health clinic.