Clinical Service Leader

**Requisition ID**:390324

**Position Number**:20016402

**Posting End Date**:October 21, 2025

**City**:Winnipeg

**Employer**: Shared Health

**Site**:Health Sciences Centre

**Department / Unit**:CSL MH Allied Health

**Job Stream**:Clinical

**Union**:MAHCP

**Anticipated Start Date - End Date**:12/08/2025** -**06/08/2027

**Reason for Term**:Maternity Leave

**FTE**: 0.80

**Anticipated Shift**: Days

**Work Arrangement**: In Person

**Daily Hours Worked**:7.75

**Annual Base Hours**:2015

**Salary**:$44.797, $46.141, $47.524, $48.951, $50.417, $51.927

Shared Health leads the planning and coordinates the integration of patient-centered clinical and preventive health services across Manitoba. The organization also delivers some province-wide health services and supports centralized administrative and business functions for Manitoba health organizations.

**Position Overview**:
Under the direction of the Manager (or Designate), the incumbent is responsible for:

- Overseeing the daily clinical service delivery and environment/operational issues in a designated service area to ensure optimum client care in a safe therapeutic environment.
- Providing guidance to Therapeutic Recreation Coordinators, Mental Health Rehabilitation Workers, Recreation Students and/or Volunteers within the designated service area through clinical leadership, mentoring, supervision, education, evaluation and research.
- Contributing to the delivery of quality Therapeutic Recreation services by examining, developing, refining and evaluating the body of knowledge and clinical practices and assisting in program planning, development and evaluation.
- Providing input into performance appraisals and recruitment, as well as coordinating clinical work schedules, caseloads and service rotations.
- Maintaining a partial clinical caseload including a therapeutic recreation assessment, interventions and follow-up within the established standards of care as per Therapeutic Recreation Coordinator’s job description.

**Experience**:

- Minimum of 3 years recent Therapeutic Recreation experience in a healthcare setting required.
- Recent experience in the clinical service area preferred.
- Supervisory experience is preferred.

**Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)**:

- Undergraduate degree in Recreation Studies or approved equivalent required.
- Post-graduate research degree in Therapeutic Recreation or related field, or other post-graduate degree relevant to the position, preferred.

**SPECIAL TRAINING**:

- Successful completion of relevant continuing professional education in designated clinical area, or in fiscal/human resource management, preferred.
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention required.
- Knowledge of integrated hospital information systems preferred.

**Certification/Licensure/Registration**:

- Membership in local, provincial and national professional organizations preferred.
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Training requirements for this position shall be in accordance with the Employer policy.

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Ability to establish and maintain good interpersonal relationships.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be able to work cooperatively with other disciplines.
- Demonstrated professional judgment and initiative.
- Knowledge of the physical, emotional, cognitive, social, cultural and economic aspects of client care.
- Knowledge of social, recreational and leisure programming and recreation resources.
- Excellent interpersonal and role-modelling skills and the ability to establish and maintain good interpersonal relationships.
- Demonstrated effective organizational, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, conflict resolution and decision-making skills.
- Ability to adapt to new concepts, techniques and best practice in the academic and clinical fields of healthcare knowledge.
- General knowledge of the regulations and scope of practice documents that guide the practice of Therapeutic Recreation and relevant support workers such as Mental Health Rehabilitation Workers.
- Demonstrated leadership, coaching, and mentoring abilities.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice.
- Working knowledge of research/program evaluation methodology.
- Ability to perform both independently and as a team member.
- Ability to function in a demanding and stressful environment.
- Ability to initiate, support and implement change.
- Ability to delegate appropriately and monitor outcomes of delegation.
- Ability to prioritize workload and attend to operations in a timely manner.
- Demonstrated commitment to continued professional development.
- Understanding of the vision and strategic directions of the region, facility/program and profession.
- Ability to function creatively and with mínimal direction.
- Understanding of adult education methods.

**Physical Requirements**:

- Must demonstrate adequate strength, agility, motor coordination and dexterity for implementation of th