Join CASA Mental Health in shaping a brighter future for children, youth and families by providing them with timely mental health care and empowering them to thrive.
Job Details
Salary Range: $76,960 to $114,400
Shift structure: Monday to Friday, 7.25 hours per day
Primary location: Central Alberta (multi-site) and remote
Union: Exempt
FTE: 1.0 (36.25 hours per week)
Status: Permanent
About the Role
CASA Classrooms are CASA's new model for school-based mental health service. The program addresses the need for services closer to students by bridging a child's mental health and school needs, through a coordinated approach by a mental health team and a teacher. CASA Classrooms are delivered in partnership with the Government of Alberta, community partners and school divisions.
The Professional Practice Lead, School-Based Programming will:

• Support the delivery of high-quality clinical services by providing competency assessment, coaching, mentoring and clinical supervision to members of the assigned clinical discipline.
• Provide professional development training to CASA staff and partner service providers to ensure a holistic and high-quality model of assessment and treatment planning, and provide content expertise in the development of education materials.
• Act as a resource to team members and external service providers from community partnerships and school divisions on issues related to specific areas of expertise.
• Support the development of children's mental health knowledge and skills by observing and coaching individual performance in the delivery of mental health supports and services to patients and their families.
• Work on a curriculum focused on various knowledge areas essential to providing mental health services to children and adolescents.
• In collaboration with supervisees, support the development of supervision plans, oversee the therapists' development and implementation of mental health assessment and therapeutic treatment plans, and complete the appropriate documentation to support the supervisees' registration with their professional college or regulatory body (i.e. CAP, ACSW).
• Ensure a holistic and high-quality model of assessment and treatment planning that is family-centred, trauma-informed and inclusive of biological, psychological, social and cultural factors for patients and their families.
• Collaborate with internal and external managers or supervisors to educate staff and external service providers about clinical practices.
• Participate in program and clinical team meetings.
• Work in collaboration with diverse clinical team to provide culturally-sensitive and safe training and education.
• Identify service delivery improvements and suggest enhancements with the lens of evidence-informed practice.
• Regularly work with CASA's program managers to implement any required improvements and new clinical program models.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in clinical psychology, social work (with psycho-social intervention designation), occupational therapy or nursing.
• Current registration in good standing with a professional college identified under the Health Professions Act.
• A minimum of five years of clinical practice in child and family mental health and/or youth addictions.
• Experience in a classrooms-based model is preferred.

Conditions of Employment

• A satisfactory Criminal Records Check with Vulnerable Sector Search. This would be the financial responsibility of the successful candidate.
• A satisfactory Child Intervention Check.
• May be required to use the interventions learned in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) training.

Closing Date: Oct. 3, 2024
Please quote the following competition number in your application materials 24-143. #PPL

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