Clinical Supervisor

Your Opportunity:

The Clinical Supervisor position will provide clinical support, including informal and formal supervision to clinicians providing direct client care at the Opioid Dependency Program and Narcotic Transition Services in Medicine Hat and the Medicine Hat Recovery Centre. The Clinical Supervisor will serve as a cornerstone for professional excellence, fostering a culture of quality and patient-centered care. Your focus will be providing clinical supervision to clinicians delivering addiction and mental health services within these departments. The Clinical Supervisor provides advanced practice knowledge, skills and judgement for professional practice with expertise in community addiction care and concurrent mental health treatment. Your responsibilities include efficiently managing triage, treatment, and discharge processes, as well as workload assignment. You'll assess client suitability, observe clinical sessions, conduct team case consultations, and provide timely support and guidance to clinical staff. This will include providing support, mentoring, orientation, and education to the interdisciplinary team to establish and maintain services to clients. Promotion of current best practices and standards as established by the relevant professional associations will be incorporated into learning and development plans. Identifying process gaps and addressing risk management issues, you'll ensure high standards of service delivery through collaborative efforts. You will work in collaboration with other clinical leads to ensure discipline-specific and interdisciplinary supervision occurs as required with the needs of the frontline clinicians. Your role extends beyond leadership and clinical oversight; it's about cultivating teamwork, fostering relationships, and promoting collaboration to uphold the highest standards of care for clients and their families.

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.