Her Recovery Full-Time | Monday–Friday | 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

About Her Recovery

Her Recovery provides bed-based addiction treatment for women, including mothers who may attend treatment with their children. Children attend daycare during weekday programming hours, allowing mothers to fully participate in treatment while remaining connected to their children.

We work with women who may have complex needs related to substance use, mental health, trauma, parenting, housing, relationships, and community supports. Our approach is trauma-informed, culturally respectful, strengths-based, and focused on helping women build practical skills and supports for recovery beyond treatment.

The Position

We are seeking an experienced Counselling Team Lead to provide day-to-day, on-site leadership to our counselling team while also participating directly in counselling and program delivery.

This is a hands-on leadership position. The successful candidate will have strong counselling experience as well as demonstrated experience leading staff, developing programming, facilitating groups, and working with individuals with complex addiction and mental-health needs.

Her Recovery has a Clinical Supervisor who provides formal clinical supervision to counsellors, including individual clinical supervision and clinical consultation. The Counselling Team Lead is responsible for the day-to-day on-site leadership and coordination of the counselling team and program delivery and works collaboratively with the Clinical Supervisor and Assistant Director.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, mentorship, and support to the counselling team and participants in our care.
- Coordinate counselling priorities, participant needs, programming, and documentation.
- Maintain an active counselling caseload.
- Facilitate counselling, recovery, psychoeducational, and life-skills groups.
- Develop and improve counselling, recovery, and life-skills programming.
- Teach practical life skills related to healthy routines, emotional regulation, communication, boundaries, budgeting, parenting, community living, and other areas that support long-term stability.
- Participate in individualized treatment and recovery planning.




- Support participants experiencing concurrent substance-use and mental-health concerns.
- Provide crisis intervention and de-escalation within professional scope and appropriately escalate medical, psychiatric, or safety concerns.
- Develop comprehensive post-treatment plans and assist participants in navigating mental-health, addiction, healthcare, housing, financial, parenting, employment, education, and community resources.
- Coordinate referrals and support continuity of care following treatment.
- Work collaboratively with the Assistant Director, Psychiatrist, Clinical Supervisor, and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Ensure counselling documentation is accurate, professional, timely, and complete.
- Support continuous improvement of Her Recovery's counselling and participant programming.

Trauma-Informed & Culturally Respectful Practice The successful candidate must be able to work effectively with women experiencing significant vulnerability and complexity while maintaining empathy, consistency, accountability, and strong professional boundaries. Our approach recognizes the impact that trauma, intergenerational trauma, discrimination, systemic barriers, family disruption, and other life experiences can have on addiction and recovery.

The Counselling Team Lead is expected to practice cultural humility, respect participants' individual identities and experiences, and support access to cultural, spiritual, traditional, or community supports identified as meaningful by the participant.

Qualifications

Preferred professional backgrounds

- Registered Social Worker
- Certified or credentialed Addiction Counsellor

We will also consider:
- Occupational Therapists
- Counsellors or therapists
- Mental-health, behavioural-health, addictions, or related human-services professionals

A bachelor's degree in social work, counselling, psychology, occupational therapy,



addictions, behavioural sciences, or a related field is preferred. A relevant diploma or combination of education, specialized training, and substantial directly related experience may also be considered. An unregulated professional may be considered where the candidate has appropriate education and training, substantial addiction and/or mental-health counselling experience, and demonstrated leadership and program-development experience.

Experience Required

- Demonstrated leadership experience is required.
- Previous addiction and/or mental-health counselling experience.
- Experience leading, mentoring, or providing day-to-day supervision to staff.
- Experience with program development, implementation, or improvement.
- Strong individual counselling and group-facilitation skills.
- Experience working with vulnerable individuals with complex needs.
- Experience with treatment, recovery, transition, and post-treatment planning.
- Knowledge of community resources and experience coordinating referrals.
- Understanding and application of trauma-informed and culturally respectful practice.

Experience working with women, mothers, families, trauma, parenting-related needs, and/or individuals experiencing significant social vulnerability is considered a strong asset.

Additional Requirements

- Strong professional boundaries and sound judgment.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Strong written communication and documentation skills.
- Critical Incident training or be willing to be trained
- Trauma-informed and crisis management training or become willing to be trained
- Current First Aid/CPR or willingness to obtain.
- Explicit drivers abstract
- Successful Vulnerable Sector Check prior to employment.
- Knowledge of, or willingness to learn, applicable Alberta addiction-treatment legislation, standards, and requirements.

Schedule Full-Time

Monday to Friday

8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

This is an on-site position due to the leadership and direct participant-care responsibilities of the role.

Pay: $35.00-$40.00 per hour

Benefits

- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care

Work Location: In person

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