21 Oct
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Wood's Homes
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Calgary
21 Oct
Wood's Homes
Calgary
About the Role
Wood’s Homes is seeking a skilled, adaptable, and creative Clinician to join our Therapeutic Campus Based Care (TCBC) program. This role supports youth whose needs extend beyond traditional office-based service models and requires a clinician who can respond effectively in dynamic, real-world environments. As a member of a multidisciplinary team, the Clinician provides direct therapeutic services while collaborating closely with youth, families, caregivers, frontline staff, schools, healthcare providers, and community partners. This position is ideal for a graduate-level clinical professional who values relationship-based practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and versatile, evidence-informed intervention. Working alongside four TCBC Clinicians, you will play a central role in promoting safety, stability, engagement, and measurable progress for youth with complex mental health and behavioural needs, while contributing to a supportive, learning-focused clinical environment.
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
- Community-based clinical practice: provide support in homes, schools, recreational spaces, and other natural environments where youth live, learn, and connect.
- Complex youth work: support young people with developmental disabilities, dual diagnosis, mental health concerns, substance use, trauma, attachment disruption, and high-risk behavioural presentations.
- Treatment with creativity: use flexible, experiential, and evidence-informed approaches to engage youth who may be reluctant to participate in traditional counselling.
- Clinical consultation and mentorship: help frontline teams translate assessment, formulation, and clinical theory into practical day-to-day support.
- Collaborative practice:
work closely with families, caregivers, schools, healthcare providers, Indigenous supports, and community partners.
- Professional growth: contribute to case consultation, risk review, staff learning, specialized projects, and ongoing clinical development.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide direct clinical services to youth through individual, family, group, and community-based intervention and therapy.
- Build meaningful therapeutic relationships with youth who may be resistant to, disengaged from, or unsuccessful in traditional clinical services.
- Complete comprehensive clinical assessments, including functional behaviour assessments, mental health assessments, risk assessments, and treatment planning.
- Develop and support individualized treatment goals, safety plans, behavioural support strategies, and transition recommendations in collaboration with the broader care team.
- Provide flexible, creative, and responsive interventions in real-time settings, including homes, schools, recreational environments, and community locations.
- Adapt evidence-based interventions to meet the developmental, cognitive, communication, behavioural, and cultural needs of each youth.
- Assess and respond effectively to crisis situations while maintaining therapeutic engagement, emotional safety, and professional judgment.
- Provide consultation, coaching,
and mentorship to frontline staff to strengthen their understanding of complex youth presentations and intervention strategies.
- Support teams in understanding the interaction between developmental disabilities, mental health challenges, substance use, trauma, attachment, and behavioural expressions.
- Facilitate case consultations, clinical risk reviews, and collaborative treatment planning processes.
- Maintain timely, high-quality clinical documentation and reports in accordance with skilled and organizational requirements.
- Work collaboratively with families, caregivers, schools, healthcare providers, community partners, and internal program teams.
- Contribute to staff learning, reflective practice, quality improvement, and specialized projects as assigned.
What You Bring
- Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, or a related clinical discipline.
- Current registration and good standing with the applicable professional regulatory body.
- Clinical experience supporting youth with dual diagnosis, developmental disabilities, complex mental health presentations, substance use disorders, trauma, attachment disruption, acute behavioural challenges, and concurrent mental health and neurodevelopmental needs.
- Experience conducting clinical assessments and developing practical treatment plans and recommendations. Formal psychological assessment experience is considered a strong asset.
- Strong understanding of trauma-informed, strengths-based, attachment-focused, harm reduction, culturally responsive, and person-centered approaches.
- Sound clinical judgment and the ability to think critically
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