Clinical Supervisor at Alberta Health Services

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

• Transition Company: Recovery Alberta
• Classification: Clinical Supervisor
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Opioid Dependency Program, Narcotics Transition Services, Recovery Centre
• Primary Location: Opioid Dependency Program MH
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 26-NOV-2025
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
• Date Available: 12-JAN-2026
• Temporary End Date: 08-FEB-2027
• 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: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications: 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: Equivalent education and experience may be considered and is defined as: A minimum of 5 years' experience providing mental health assessment and intervention and Bachelor's degree in Social Work with Restricted Psychosocial Intervention Authorization; Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy with experience in mental health assessment and intervention; Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing; Bachelor of Science in Nursing with experience in mental health assessment and intervention. Advanced skills in assessment and intervention for individuals with addiction and mental health concerns, including crisis intervention skills. Competency in concurrent capable practice within addiction and mental health. 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 Preferred Qualifications: Experience providing clinical supervision within Addiction Mental Health services. Solid working knowledge of the continuum of Addiction and Mental Health services available within Alberta Health Services, and the range of community-based services that address the social determinants of health. Experience with Connect Care. Experience working in Substance Use treatment services.