Clinical Supervisor

at  Alberta Health Services

Your Opportunity:
Reporting to the area manager, the clinical supervisor is a leadership position within the addiction and mental health team and is responsible for the daily clinical operations of the services locates at St. Paul Mental Health Services and St. Paul Addictions Services. Providing leadership to an inter-disciplinary team, this position coordinates and facilitates daily activities, ensuring effective use of resources. Duties include supervising and contributing to the evaluation of staff, providing leadership and coaching to assist staff with complex cases, completing health record audits, completing professional development and achievement of service/program goals as well as facilitating regular case conference amongst our teams. Further duties include taking a broad view of operations and client service delivery and following through on issues that impact the quality of services provided. Recommending policies and developing procedures/standards to operationalize service at the site level is also expected. The incumbent contributes to the monitoring and developing of the operating plan; leads quality and risk management activities of the clinics and engages in program and community development. This position is also expected to maintain a small caseload of clients for the purposes of treatment of mental health disorders. This position would assist in hiring and orientation of new staff and support of students.
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. 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.

• Recovery Alberta: Y
• Classification: Clinical Supervisor AMH CL
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Mental Health And Addictions
• Primary Location: St. Paul Addictions
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

• Recovery Alberta: Y
• Classification: Clinical Supervisor AMH CL
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Mental Health And Addictions
• Primary Location: St. Paul Addictions
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicabl