Clinical Supervisor
Your Opportunity:
Are you passionate about providing compassionate, evidence-based care to patients during critical moments in their lives? The Concurrent Disorder Unit (CDU), opening at the Peter Lougheed Centre, is seeking an experienced Clinical Supervisor to join our multidisciplinary team. The CDU is a twelve-bed inpatient unit intended to support patients with concurrent mental health and substance use disorders. The team will provide evidence-based stabilization and recovery-oriented care for adults requiring medical withdrawal management and acute psychiatric stabilization. This will include both voluntary and involuntary patients. We are seeking a skilled Clinical Supervisor to oversee multidisciplinary teams, ensure adherence to trauma-informed and culturally safe practices, and maintain the highest standards of clinical excellence. This role involves guiding staff through complex interventions, supporting quality improvement initiatives, and fostering an environment of dignity, respect, and hope for every patient in our care. The ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership qualities and the ability to mentor and develop others, while applying strong analytical thinking and decision-making skills to complex clinical situations. You will bring adaptability and flexibility to a dynamic environment, maintain a culturally competent and equity-informed approach, and uphold ethical conduct and professionalism in all interactions. A commitment to continuous learning, self-motivation, and self-care is essential, along with creativity and innovation in problem-solving and program development. Exceptional effective communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team are critical to success in this role.
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.
- Classification: Clinical Supervisor
- Union: HSAA Prof/Tech
- Unit and Program: Unit 37 - Concurrent Disorder Unit
- Primary Location: Peter Lougheed Centre
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Multisite
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 25-MAY-2026
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
- Date Available: 04-JUN-2026
- Temporary End Date: 01-DEC-2027
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 4
- Shifts per cycle: 20
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $50.74
- Maximum Salary: $66.41
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
Master's Degree in Psychology or Social Work. Active or eligible for full registration (not provisional) with College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP) or the Alberta College of Social Work (ACSW). A minimum of 5 years' experience in providing mental health assessment and intervention, including restricted activity of psychosocial intervention.
Additional Required Qualifications:The ideal candidate will demonstrate proven leadership experience in clinical or health service settings, with a strong ability to supervise multidisciplinary teams in high-stakes environments. Required qualifications include advanced knowledge of trauma-informed care, and culturally safe practices, as well as experience managing complex cases involving patients and families. Candidates should possess exceptional communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making skills, along with the ability to maintain composure and professionalism in challenging situations.
Preferred Qualifications:Preferred qualifications include experience in addiction and/or mental health settings, familiarity with provincial legislation related to the Mental Health Act and the Mental Health Services Protection Act, and a track record of implementing quality improvement initiatives. Strong organizational skills and the ability to foster collaboration across diverse stakeholders are highly valued.
