Mental Health Therapist Provincial
About the role
Your Opportunity:
Are you passionate about making a difference in people’s lives? Join our dynamic team as a Mental Health Therapist and help transform recovery journeys! This rewarding role involves providing essential counseling services to individuals struggling with opioid dependency and mental health challenges. Your expertise will deliver specialized assessments, provisional diagnoses, treatment plans, and follow-up care crucial for those facing Opioid Use Disorder. In this role, you will work closely with social workers, peer support workers, healthcare providers, addiction counselors and community agencies, ensuring seamless coordination and referrals. While the main focus of this role is delivering therapy and counseling, a secondary aspect involves community outreach, building connections, and supporting clients outside the clinical setting. This encompasses employing diverse treatment techniques, including individual, family, and group therapies, in both independent and collaborative environments. Apply evidence-informed best practices in crisis intervention, assessment, case management, and treatment. Your compassion and professionalism will directly impact recovery efforts, supporting clients on their healing path. If you are a dedicated, caring professional ready to make a meaningful difference apply today and join a team that truly cares about community well-being! Take the next steps in your journey, make a lasting impact today and help build stronger, healthier communities! This position has transitioned to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you agree to and will become an employee of Recovery Alberta.
Description:
As the Mental Health Therapist, you will be required to use a variety of treatment modalities (individual, family, and group) to persons experiencing significant mental health difficulties. Working both independently and as a member of a collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will provide evidence informed and best practices in crisis intervention, assessment, consultation, referral, case management and treatment.
- Transition Company: Recovery Alberta
- Classification: Mental Health Therapist Provin
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Opioid Dependency Program, Narcotics Transition Program
- Primary Location: Opioid Dependency Program MH
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 05-AUG-2025
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
- Date Available: 18-AUG-2025
- Temporary End Date: 18-AUG-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $41.12
- Maximum Salary: $54.61
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Master's degree in Psychology; or master's degree in Social Work (clinical specialization) including education in mental health assessment and psychotherapy; or master's or bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy including training and experience in mental health assessment and provision of psychotherapy; or master's degree in Nursing or Psychiatric Nursing including training and experience in mental health assessment and provision of psychotherapy. Active or eligible for registration with the applicable Alberta regulatory college.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Equivalent education and experience will be considered and is defined as: Bachelor's degree in social work with Psychosocial Intervention Authorization; bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy with experience in mental health assessment and intervention; Bachelor of Science in Nursing with experience in mental health assessment and intervention; Diploma or bachelor's degree in Psychiatric Nursing with experience in mental health assessment and intervention. Competency in concurrent capable practice within addiction and mental health. Please note that the schedule for this position is 8am - 415pm or 1045am - 7pm seven days per week on a 6-week rotation
Preferred Qualifications:
Connect Care experience.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
About Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is Canada’s first and largest province wide, fully-integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to the over four million people living in Alberta.
Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life, and from all corners of the world.
Our mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans.
Our five values – compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety – are at the heart of everything that we do.
Mental Health Therapist Provincial
About the role
Your Opportunity:
Are you passionate about making a difference in people’s lives? Join our dynamic team as a Mental Health Therapist and help transform recovery journeys! This rewarding role involves providing essential counseling services to individuals struggling with opioid dependency and mental health challenges. Your expertise will deliver specialized assessments, provisional diagnoses, treatment plans, and follow-up care crucial for those facing Opioid Use Disorder. In this role, you will work closely with social workers, peer support workers, healthcare providers, addiction counselors and community agencies, ensuring seamless coordination and referrals. While the main focus of this role is delivering therapy and counseling, a secondary aspect involves community outreach, building connections, and supporting clients outside the clinical setting. This encompasses employing diverse treatment techniques, including individual, family, and group therapies, in both independent and collaborative environments. Apply evidence-informed best practices in crisis intervention, assessment, case management, and treatment. Your compassion and professionalism will directly impact recovery efforts, supporting clients on their healing path. If you are a dedicated, caring professional ready to make a meaningful difference apply today and join a team that truly cares about community well-being! Take the next steps in your journey, make a lasting impact today and help build stronger, healthier communities! This position has transitioned to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you agree to and will become an employee of Recovery Alberta.
Description:
As the Mental Health Therapist, you will be required to use a variety of treatment modalities (individual, family, and group) to persons experiencing significant mental health difficulties. Working both independently and as a member of a collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will provide evidence informed and best practices in crisis intervention, assessment, consultation, referral, case management and treatment.
- Transition Company: Recovery Alberta
- Classification: Mental Health Therapist Provin
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Opioid Dependency Program, Narcotics Transition Program
- Primary Location: Opioid Dependency Program MH
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 05-AUG-2025
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
- Date Available: 18-AUG-2025
- Temporary End Date: 18-AUG-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $41.12
- Maximum Salary: $54.61
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Master's degree in Psychology; or master's degree in Social Work (clinical specialization) including education in mental health assessment and psychotherapy; or master's or bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy including training and experience in mental health assessment and provision of psychotherapy; or master's degree in Nursing or Psychiatric Nursing including training and experience in mental health assessment and provision of psychotherapy. Active or eligible for registration with the applicable Alberta regulatory college.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Equivalent education and experience will be considered and is defined as: Bachelor's degree in social work with Psychosocial Intervention Authorization; bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy with experience in mental health assessment and intervention; Bachelor of Science in Nursing with experience in mental health assessment and intervention; Diploma or bachelor's degree in Psychiatric Nursing with experience in mental health assessment and intervention. Competency in concurrent capable practice within addiction and mental health. Please note that the schedule for this position is 8am - 415pm or 1045am - 7pm seven days per week on a 6-week rotation
Preferred Qualifications:
Connect Care experience.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
About Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is Canada’s first and largest province wide, fully-integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to the over four million people living in Alberta.
Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life, and from all corners of the world.
Our mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans.
Our five values – compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety – are at the heart of everything that we do.