Your Opportunity:
We're excited to announce an opening for a Clinical Supervisor in Lac La Biche! This unique opportunity allows you to contribute to local mental health services while advancing your career. You’ll lead a team of Mental Health Therapists, Addictions Counsellors, and Recovery Workers, ensuring high-quality outpatient services. Your responsibilities include supervising clinical and administrative staff, coaching, training, scheduling, and supporting the hiring process. You will also plan, implement, and evaluate mental health programs in the community. The ideal candidate is passionate about supporting long-term mental health and wellness, with strong knowledge of the AMH continuum of care, concurrent disorders, and risk management. You also have an understanding and respect for Indigenous culture, history, and health practices to ensure culturally safe support for Indigenous clients. If you're a mental health professional with leadership skills looking to make a meaningful impact, apply today! Lac La Biche offers a welcoming community, perfect for outdoor enthusiasts, with over 150 beaches, affordable lakefront housing, and amenities like the Bold Centre, a 227,000 sq. ft. recreation and entertainment facility. For more information, please visit https://www.laclabichecounty.com/p/living-in-lac-la-biche-county. 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.
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.
- Acute Care Alberta: N
- Primary Care Alberta: N
- Recovery Alberta: Y
- Classification: Clinical Supervisor AMH CL
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Mental Health
- Primary Location: Lac La Biche Comm/Mental Hlth
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 02-SEP-2025
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- Date Available: 12-SEP-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $46.44
- Maximum Salary: $60.78
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Provided
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.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, or Nursing with considerable experience in mental health assessment and intervention. Registration in a professional regulatory body as defined by the Health Professions Act. Registered Social Workers must be authorized to perform psychosocial interventions and designation as a Clinical Social Worker is preferred. 3-5 years of direct clinical experience with the focus on children, youth and their families, preferably in a community mental health setting. Advanced post graduate training in therapy desired. Formal training in a therapeutic modality of intervention may include, but is not limited to, Solution focused Therapy, CBT, Narrative, Motivational Interviewing, Family Systems, EMDR, etc. Proficiency with computers, including MS Office Suite, Internet, and email. Experience in Suicide Risk Management (assessment and intervention). Current CPR certification. Non Violent Crisis Intervention Training. Excellent interpersonal skills and well developed written and verbal skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Concurrent capable education and experience highly preferred for leading this multi-disciplinary team. Experience in providing Supervision to both staff, students, and is able to take on practicum students at the master level. Experience working in mental health across the continuum of care (outpatient, day treatment, inpatient). Post graduate therapy training. Experience with Connect Care preferred.