Your Opportunity:

Our team is seeking an Indigenous Clinical Supervisor to support the Indigenous Support Line, which is a provincial telephone support service available to Indigenous peoples in Alberta. This position is accountable for overseeing the safe, effective and appropriate delivery of the Helpline service. This role supports the Indigenous listeners (Mental Health Therapists) who are supporting Indigenous peoples in Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 and Metis Nations of Alberta and Metis Settlements. This role provides immediate consultation and supervision to the listeners, such as providing clinical consultation, shift debriefing, and assisting with clinical decision making and problem solving. This position is responsible for day-to-day problem solving related to staffing, technology, and business processes. To thrive in this role, you will leverage your understanding of Indigenous communities across the province and utilize resources available to respond to their needs using culturally safe, strength-based approaches. The selected candidate will be expected to work on-site to foster effective team collaboration. Required competencies include cultural safety and anti-racist practices, knowledge of Indigenous histories, trauma-informed practice, and clinical skills Strong technical skills are required and comfort using multiple electronic platforms. Additional responsibilities encompass providing support for staff development in areas such as cultural safety, combating anti-Indigenous racism, and offering cultural, linguistic, and holistic support. This role also works closely with the Indigenous Wellness Core. This position will be part of Primary Care Alberta effective November 18, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you agree to and will become an employee of Primary Care Alberta. Position can be out of Calgary or Edmonton.

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.