Intensive Services Clinician – Lead

* POSITION SUMMARY
* The Intensive Services Clinician Lead (Clinician) offers direct support to children, youth, and their families who have been identified as having significant and complex mental health challenges. The Clinician utilizes a variety of clinical methodologies to provide assessment, treatment planning, therapeutic intervention, system navigation, connection to specialized services, psychotherapy, guidance, and advocacy through the entirety of the families’ work within the Strive Program.
* The clinician will meet with children and families in their homes and other community settings. Through a leadership lens, the Clinician will support and guide the Family Mental Health Support Worker/ intake worker and the other Intensive Service Clinician (if funding allows). The clinician will collaborate with the Family Mental Health Support Worker/ Intake Worker to write treatment plans, support family goals and offer in-home and community-based support services. The Strive program clinician will also work actively with local and regional partners to provide a wrap-around approach that emphasize on the provision of low-barrier, accessible and individualized mental health care. Finally, the clinician will play an active role in program development, service evaluation, parent education, and skills-based training as required.

QUALIFICATIONS •Four-year university degree in social sciences •Registered with a relevant Ontario College whose members may practice psychotherapy •Minimum of three (3) years’ experience working with children/youth and their families •Minimum three (3) years of experience as a supervisor •In-depth knowledge of various treatment modalities specific to working with children and their families presenting with acute and complex mental health issues, i.e., Strength-Based Perspective, Family Systems Theory, CBT, and Trauma-Informed approaches to care with the demonstrated ability to integrate clinical approaches into practice •Prior training and supervision related to practice and integration of psychotherapy knowledge and skills •Demonstrated Crisis Intervention skills •Clinical experience and knowledge in the delivery of group-based interventions •Fluently bilingual •Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of a team •Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work •Knowledge of community resources •Vulnerable Sector Check •CPR and First Aid training

* Salary based on experience
* 35 hours per week, with occasional over-time
* Benefits offered after probation period, Paid time off, RRSP
* Skills development, training and certifications