Mental Health & Addictions Executive Clinical Lead
Title
:
Mental Health and Addictions Executive Clinical Lead
Department
:
Community Programs
Classification
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Full Time, Salaried, Non-Management
Hours
: 37.5 hours per week - This is an in-person role and requires regular evening availability (up to 8:30 pm). Occasional weekend work.
Location
:
Spryfield, NS
YWCA Halifax is a progressive, multi-service, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women, girls, two-spirited and gender diverse people and their families at critical turning points in their lives. We work to transform lives by providing a continuum of services and programs that drive lasting positive change. We strive to change the underlying issues that are root causes of inequality, violence, poverty, and homelessness.
Our four program focus areas include: promoting the health, wellness, and leadership of women and girls; advancing women's economic and housing security; delivering quality, accessible, early learning, and childcare; and working to end violence against women, girls and gender diverse individuals.
Staff at YWCA Halifax enjoy a supportive and dynamic team environment, a commitment to staff growth, a connection to the national and international YWCA movements, learning from colleagues in a multiservice agency, and a strong shared vision.
Why YOU should applyEven if you dont have all the requirements listed in this position, you may be the right candidate. If you are a natural leader with a strong attention to detail and a passion for social justice and gender equity, we want to hear from you. Tell us how you can make a difference through your YWCA.
Program OverviewIntegrated Youth Services (IYS) is an international and pan-Canadian movement that takes an interdisciplinary, community-led, partnership-based approach to support for youth ages 12-25. Anchor Youth Spaces provide timely, coordinated access to a wide range of programs and services. We reduce barriers, promote early intervention, and integrate wraparound supports such as mental health and substance use care, primary health, social services, and peer support for youth.
All services are delivered within a welcoming, youth-friendly environment where relationship building and engagement are foundational. Extending past traditional therapy, clinicians also play an active role in the space through participation in programs, activities, workshops, and informal interactions. This approach supports comfortable, seamless access to clinical services for youth when needed. In addition to maintaining a clinical caseload, this role provides clinical leadership and supports excellence in clinical therapeutic service delivery across the YWCA Halifax.
Key Responsibilities Clinical Practice Leadership- Provide senior clinical leadership, consultation, debriefing, and practice mentorship to clinicians and IYS team through direct collaboration, mentorship, shared service planning, and interdisciplinary problem solving.
- Identify emerging clinical service needs across the organization and collaborate with leadership to develop innovative service responses, partnerships, and clinical expanded clinical programming.
- Develop, lead, and sustain an organization wide Community of Practice for clinical staff providing therapy, fostering reflective practice, knowledge exchange, evidence informed care, collaboration, and continuous learning across YWCA Halifax's programs and services.
- Contribute subject matter expertise to the development, refinement, and evaluation of organizational clinical protocols, service pathways, risk management frameworks, and evidence informed practices.
- Carries out and completes assessments, evidence-based treatment, care plan development and implementation, counselling, discharge planning, and group programming in accordance with the YWCA and Anchor Youth Space Nova Scotia guidelines, in alignment with their regulatory body, and professional code of ethics.
- Serve as the senior internal resource for youth experiencing crisis, presenting with elevated risk, or complex needs across mental health, substance use, housing, family, and social challenges.
- Provide direct, short term bridging therapy and stabilization support for youth who require coordinated service transfers to specialized or higher acuity services.
- Deliver evidence-based harm reduction support and safety planning for youth, adapting clinical approach to match individual needs.
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