Mental Health Clinician
Your Opportunity:
The Lethbridge Youth Treatment Program is looking to recruit a Mental Health Clinician to join our multidisciplinary team who work with young people (12-17) and their families in an in-patient treatment environment. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with their clients, using a recovery model approach, to develop therapeutic goals that mitigate problematic substance use and its impacts as well as improve mental health and individual and family functioning. The MHC will support clients to identify individualized recovery-based goals that may assist clients to optimize their mental health, develop coping skills, employ relapse prevention and refusal strategies, build resilience and capacity, develop natural and community supports, and increase the individual and family’s abilities to navigate recovery. The successful candidate will facilitate individual counselling, provide client care and support, facilitate recreation and community access, engage in family work, deliver group counselling, support client skill development, and provide role modeling and supervision to the youth. They will also collaborate closely with all team members to ensure the delivery of a concurrent and family-centered approach. The position requires evening and weekend work. If you are the kind of individual who enjoys working closely with youth and their families, builds strong therapeutic relationships, and has a powerful desire to support clients and their families to improve overall health and wellbeing--this may be the job for you. 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 Mental Health Clinician, you will work as a member of the multidisciplinary health care team collaborating on the delivery of care for the needs of individuals, families and/or communities. You will be responsible for the intake, clinical interviews, and screening of clients with addiction and mental health disorders. You will liaise with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and work collaboratively with other team members as required. You may have the opportunity to participate in program planning, development and to provide supervision to practicum students. This position is open to Registered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Registered Social Workers, Registered Psychologists, and Registered Occupational Therapists.
- Transition Company: Recovery Alberta
- Classification: Mental Health Clinician EXCZ
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Youth Treatment Centre - Mental Health & Addiction
- Primary Location: Youth Residential Addiction
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 28-AUG-2025
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- Date Available: 06-OCT-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 5
- Shifts per cycle: 25
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $39.48
- Maximum Salary: $52.50
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Provided
Completion of a master's degree in psychology; a bachelor's degree in social work incorporating education in mental health assessment, brief counseling, and crisis intervention; a master's or bachelor's degree in occupational therapy with similar educational components; a bachelor's degree in nursing with training and experience in mental health assessment, crisis intervention, and brief counseling; or a bachelor's degree in psychiatric nursing. Active or eligible for registration with the applicable Alberta regulatory college.
Additional Required Qualifications:Class IV license - required within 6 months of hiring date. First Aid, Non-Violent Crisis Intervention and Suicide Intervention.
Preferred Qualifications:Any outdoor, watersport or climbing certification. One year experience providing care to Youth in a bed-based care setting. One year experience providing care to individuals with addictions. Preference will be given to those candidates who have previous experience (2 years or more) working with families in an inpatient or outpatient capacity.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
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