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Clinician

Community-Based Complex Needs Program | Full-Time | Calgary, Alberta
Shape meaningful clinical care through creativity, collaboration, and relationship-based practice with youth with complex needs.

About the Role
Wood’s Homes is seeking a skilled, adaptable, and creative Clinician to support youth whose needs extend beyond traditional office-based service models. This role is ideal for a graduate-level clinical professional who values relationship-based practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and flexible intervention in real-world settings. The Clinician will provide direct clinical services while working alongside youth, families, caregivers, frontline staff, schools, healthcare providers, and community partners to support safety, stability, engagement, and meaningful progress.
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 professional 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 in dynamic and rapidly changing situations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce timely, clear, and high-quality clinical documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary teams, families, caregivers, schools, healthcare providers, and community partners.

Clinical Practice Expectations

• Ability to establish therapeutic relationships with youth who are resistant to, disengaged from, or unsuccessful in traditional office-based clinical services.
• Demonstrated ability to provide flexible, creative, and responsive interventions in real-time community settings, including homes, schools, recreational environments, and other natural supports.
• Skilled in adapting evidence-based interventions to meet the developmental, cognitive, communication, and behavioural needs of youth.
• Strong understanding of trauma-informed, strengths-based, attachment-focused, harm reduction, and person-centered approaches.
• Ability to assess and respond effectively to crisis situations while maintaining therapeutic engagement and emotional safety.

Consultation & Clinical Leadership

• Provide ongoing consultation, coaching, and mentorship to frontline staff to enhance understanding of complex youth presentations and clinical intervention strategies.
• Support staff in translating clinical theories and evidence-based practices into practical day-to-day interactions and interventions.
• Assist teams in understanding the interplay between developmental disabilities, mental health challenges, substance use, trauma, attachment, and behavioural presentations.
• Facilitate case consultations, clinical risk reviews, and collaborative treatment planning processes.
• Promote reflective practice and skill development among direct service staff.

Additional Requirements

• Current proof of professional registration may be required.
• A valid Alberta Class 5 or Class 5 GDL driver’s license, automobile insurance with $2 million liability coverage, and a driver’s abstract with no more than six demerits.
• Ability to work in community-based and non-traditional settings, including environments that may involve emotional intensity, conflict, crisis, or rapidly changing circumstances.
• Comfort supporting youth with significant barriers to engagement while maintaining professional boundaries, emotional resilience, and self-awareness.

Who Will Thrive Here
You are a grounded, creative, and relational clinician who can bring structure and sound judgment while remaining flexible, curious, and responsive. You are comfortable working outside a traditional office setting and alongside youth whose needs may be complex, layered, and difficult to engage. You can help teams make sense of behaviour through a clinical lens and translate that understanding into practical, compassionate, and consistent support. Most importantly, you want your work to help young people experience greater safety, connection, stability, and participation in family, school, and community life.

Apply!
If you are a graduate-level mental health professional in Calgary or elsewhere in Canada who is interested in community-based clinical practice, complex youth needs, and creative, relationship-based approaches to care, we encourage you to apply.
Please submit your resumé and cover letter through the Wood’s Homes careers application process. In your cover letter, tell us about your interest in school-based mental health services and your experience working with children, youth, and families.