• Inclusiveness, diversity, and equity
• Accessibility and a sharing of knowledge
• Creativity, along with a strengths-based approach

• Provide clinical oversight and coaching to a multidisciplinary team, including therapists, social workers, and peer support staff.
• Ensure evidence-based interventions and best practices are integrated into service delivery.
• Ensures Stella's Place clinicians are adhering to all college regulatory requirements
• 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.

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and evaluation of mental health programs tailored to young adults (ages 16-29).
• Support the integration of innovative and participant-centered approaches, such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and blended peer-led integration.
• Contribute to quality assurance and quality improvement activities and processes, including participant documentation standards, outcome measurement and participation and leadership in quality improvement cycles as needed.

• Support the alignment of 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 and determine escalation to management.

• Support 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 and escalate when management intervention is required.

• To enhance service coordination, help strengthen partnerships with hospitals, community organizations, and referral networks.
• Work closely with lived-experience advisors and young adult participants to co-design programs and ensure services meet evolving needs.
• Represent Stella’s Place at external meetings, conferences, and advocacy efforts related to youth mental health.

Operational & Administrative Leadership

• Work to 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.
• Additional duties as required.

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. 

• 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.
• Strong experience in applying various modalities to support participants with anxiety and depression. 

• 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 internationally award-winning building - European Healthcare Design Champions Award in the Mental Health Design category.