Senior Clinician - Child and Youth Mental Health (Temporary Full Time - 12 Months) Internal Only

FIREFLY is seeking a temporary full-time Senior Clinician (12 months) for our Children & Youth Mental Health team. The Senior Clinician (SC) is a key member of the FIREFLY clinical services team. Working closely with front-line clinicians, the SC is a role model, mentor, and leader for clinicians in their own profession, demonstrating and promoting excellence in evidence-based practice, ethical behaviour, organizational practices, and current knowledge of professional standards. The SC promotes FIREFLY's mission, vision and values and supports the implementation of FIREFLY strategies, goals, and objectives while abiding by policies and procedures as well as applicable legislation.

Key Job Functions:

• Reporting to a Clinical Manager, the Senior Clinician (SC) maintains a clinical caseload, and provides coaching, mentorship, and support to assigned clinicians while consistently practicing at college standards in all performance areas and commonly exceeding standards in several areas of performance.
• Adheres to college standards and keeps current with legislative changes pertinent to the profession.
• Models evidence-informed practices.
• Supports waitlist management activities in conjunction with the Clinical Manager.
• Responds to general intake, waitlist, and program inquiries as required.
• Shares knowledge by mentoring and coaching clinicians regarding clinical reasoning, professional practice, and ethical issues. This includes the provision of college mentorship as required.
• Participates in the interview process and supports recruitment and retention activities.
• Promotes and cultivates a collaborative team culture; encourages work/life balance; stimulates and supports creative thinking and problem-solving.
• Identifies professional development needs and supports achievement of same.
• Contributes to the development of best practice guidelines in conjunction with Clinical Manager (s).
• Supports research initiatives as appropriate.
• Develops agendas, and shares responsibility with other SCs to chair/support discipline meetings and/or discipline-specific discussions, linking with other internal SCs to develop clinical meetings and/or inter-disciplinary discussions.
• Leads orientation process for new staff and students as assigned.
• Facilitates student placement and observation requests within the discipline.
• Accepts the changing nature and requirements of the position, including the addition and/or deletion of responsibilities and duties from time to time.
• Travel within the service region required.

Education/Experience/Skills/Knowledge Required:

• Master's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education or experience.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in clinical service provision in field of expertise.
• Progressive experience in leadership and/or clinical supervision preferred.
• Exceptional communication skills, diplomacy, and good judgement.
• LEAN Six Sigma Yellow Belt is preferred.

Conditions of Employment:

• The ability to manage a reasonable workload; effective priority setting and follow up
• Role model the vision and values of the Agency
• Value the concept of teamwork and ability to work independently
• Ability to deal with conflict, mediate and problem solve
• Quality of work to meet or exceed Agency specifications
• Current Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector screen that is free of any offenses
• Actively promotes and abides by Agency Health and Safety policies
• Must have a valid Driver's License
  

Interested in this position? Please apply by Friday, November 7, 2024.