Current Openings at Stella's Place
Clinical Team Lead
Description
ROLE: Clinical Team Lead
TERM: Full-time, 40 hours/week
LOCATION: Toronto - hybrid at least three days per week in office
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE: April 24, 2025
ABOUT US:
Stella’s Place is a community-based mental health agency dedicated to supporting young adults (ages 16-29) experiencing mental health challenges. We provide innovative, evidence-based services in a low-barrier and youth-friendly environment, including individual therapy, group programs, peer support, and system navigation.
Mission: Partnering with young adults 16-29 years old and professionals to provide a collaborative, innovative model of mental health services.
Vision: Healthy, resilient young adults living the lives they choose.
Values: At Stella’s Place, we fundamentally value the capabilities and contributions of young adults as we seek breakthrough innovations that benefit our community and society as a whole.
We also value:
- Inclusiveness, diversity, and equity
- Accessibility and a sharing of knowledge
- Creativity, along with a strengths-based approach
POSITION OVERVIEW:
Reporting to the Manager, Clinical & Recovery Program, the Clinical Team Lead is responsible for overseeing and supporting the clinical team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, participant-centered mental health services. This role includes clinical coaching, program development, staff training, and direct service provision. The Clinical Team Lead collaborates with the clinical team to enhance service accessibility and effectiveness, integrating trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and equity-based approaches into practice. This is a hybrid position working in the office at least three days a week.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Clinical Leadership & Supervision
- Provide clinical oversight and supervision to a multidisciplinary team, including therapists, social workers, and peer support staff.
- Ensure evidence-based interventions and best practices are integrated into service delivery.
- Offer case consultations and guidance on complex cases, ethical dilemmas, and risk assessments.
- Foster a trauma-informed, strengths-based, and culturally responsive approach to care.
Program Development & Implementation
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and evaluation of mental health programs tailored to young adults (ages 16-29).
- Support the integration of innovative and client-centered approaches, such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and peer-led models.
- Oversee quality assurance processes, including clinical documentation standards and outcome measurement.
Staff Development & Training
- Ensure services align with a participant-centered, harm reduction, and recovery-oriented framework.
- Support crisis intervention strategies, including suicide risk assessment and safety planning.
- Act as an escalation point for urgent participant concerns or incidents requiring higher-level intervention.
Participant-Centered Care & Crisis Management
- Ensure services align with a client-centered, harm reduction, and recovery-oriented framework.
- Support crisis intervention strategies, including suicide risk assessment and safety planning.
- Act as an escalation point for urgent participant concerns or incidents requiring higher-level intervention.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Strengthen partnerships with hospitals, community organizations, and referral networks to enhance service coordination.
- Work closely with lived-experience advisors and young adult participants to co-design programs and ensure services meet evolving needs.
- Represent the organization in external meetings, conferences, and advocacy efforts related to youth mental health.
Operational & Administrative Leadership
- Ensure compliance with regulatory standards, accreditation requirements, and organizational policies.
- Support data collection and reporting to measure program impact and inform continuous improvement.
- Assist in funding applications, grant reporting, and resource development to sustain and expand services.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Integration
- Embed anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and culturally responsive practices into service delivery.
- Ensure accessibility of mental health services for diverse populations, including LGBTQ2S+ youth, BIPOC communities, and neurodivergent individuals.
- Address systemic barriers to care through policy recommendations and advocacy.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
- Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling, or a related field.
- Registered and in good standing with a relevant professional regulatory body (e.g., OCSWSSW, CRPO, CPO). Ability to submit credentials upon hire.
- Minimum 5 years of clinical experience, including at least 2 years in a supervisory or leadership role.
- Expertise in evidence-based therapeutic modalities such as CBT, DBT, ACT, and trauma-informed approaches.
- Strong understanding of systemic barriers affecting young adults, including experiences of marginalization, poverty, and housing insecurity.
- Experience working within an anti-oppressive, harm reduction, and strengths-based framework.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and occasional weekends.
- Current Vulnerable Sector Screening required.
Preferred Assets
- Experience with peer support models and lived experience-informed approaches.
- Familiarity with digital mental health interventions and virtual service delivery.
- Knowledge of relevant community resources and networks.
WHY JOIN US?
- Be part of a passionate team making a meaningful impact on young adults’ mental health.
- Opportunity to innovate and shape programs in a progressive, participant-centered agency.
- Competitive salary and benefits package, including professional development opportunities.
- Work in an international award winning building - European Healthcare Design Champions Award in the Mental Health Design category.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND ACCOMMODATION:
Stella’s Place is committed to having a workforce that is reflective of the diversity of the City of Toronto in general and of our participants in particular. We strongly encourage applications from racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression and all those who can provide and contribute to diversification of perspective at Stella’s Place.
Stella’s Place is committed to hiring practices that are inclusive and barrier free. Stella’s Place will provide reasonable and appropriate accommodation during all stages of the hiring process in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code in order to ensure the equal and fair assessment of all job applicants. Applicants are asked to make any accommodation request in advance.
YOUR APPLICATION:
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit their cover letter outlining your interest in working with Stella’s Place along with a detailed CV by April 24, 2025.
We thank all candidates for their interest. We regret that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Compensation
$84,500.00 per year