Clinical Team Lead

**Req ID**:143555**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Central** **Zone, **Nova Scotia Hospital**
**Department**:MHA CZ Cole Harbour Community**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary** **Hourly FT long-assignment** **(**100%** **FTE) x **1** **position(s)**
**Status: NSGEU** **Healthcare** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:4-Nov-22**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
In conjunction with the Clinical Manager, the Team Lead is responsible for the overall day-to-day clinical service delivery. The Team Lead will provide administrative, organizational and leadership support to the Outpatient Mental Health & Addictions team, and also provide direct clinical client service in their professional role (ie. Clinical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, and Psychologist).

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling, Nursing or Occupational Therapy
- Licensed with applicable body (NSCSW, NSBEP, NSCTT, NSCN or NSCOT)
- Five (5) years' experience with Mental Health & Addictions intervention
- Provides evidence-based therapeutic intervention to Mental Health & Addictions clients
- Ensures all clinical staff provide effective and evidence-based treatment modalities
- Identifies areas for service improvement and facilitates and evaluates quality initiatives
- Drafts Standard Operating Procedures, orientation materials and others guidelines for care
- Provides leadership to the team in the areas of client-centered decision making, customer service, problem solving and conflict resolution
- Facilitates internal referrals
- Other duties as assigned by the manager
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
- Successful external applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to People Services before starting employment and assume any associated costs as a condition of employment.

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Long Assignment Full Time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
- Approximately 12 months

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$42.86 - $49.97 hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

As per the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Protocol in High-Risk Settings, Nova Scotia Health requires all team members to be fully vaccinated by November 30th, 2021.

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