Your Opportunity:
The Neuro Rehabilitation programs, including the Early Supported Discharge team and the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation clinics, support a population ranging from stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, or other neurological injury/disorder. Reporting to the Unit Manager, the Psychologist works within an Early Supported Discharge Team and the Physiatry Clinics to assess and provide treatment to patients. As appropriate, they will also incorporate a transdisciplinary approach to rehabilitation goals relating to other therapy professions. The incumbent will deliver rehabilitation psychology services as well as provide neuropsychological assessment and recommendations to guide intervention and time frames for services. Assessment and intervention are provided in clinic and home settings, but at times also in other contextually and goal appropriate environments. As such, this position offers the opportunity to be very flexible, adaptive, and innovative in a patient and family centred approach to rehabilitation. These teams are connected to many other stakeholders including allied health and nursing staff, coordinators and physicians along the continuum of care. The incumbent will be under the general supervision of the Clinical Leader and may also be required to take on acting Clinical Leader (CL) responsibilities when the CL is absent. To ensure your skills and qualifications are considered, please attach a resume and cover letter with your application.
Description:

As a Psychologist II, you will provide advanced clinical services (including psychological assessment, diagnosis and/or intervention), consultation and education to the interprofessional team and patients/families, and/or provides clinical leadership and coordination in an assigned program area. This is an advanced level psychology position that will allow you to work with or within teams to provide and inform services for patients with complex and multi-dimensional medical, psychological, interpersonal, environmental and/or instrumental needs. You will consult, collaborate, and enact initiatives to ensure that practices are evidence based and in alignment with psychology standards of practice and code of ethics, as well as policy, legislation and regulations. You will be expected to lead, facilitate and/or participate in program, policy, and procedure development, service planning, staff development, quality improvement and evaluation, and/or research activities as identified by the needs of the service area(s). You may provide supervision to doctoral level psychology residents, master’s level interns, provisional psychologists, psychometrists and other team members.

• Acute Care Alberta: N
• Primary Care Alberta: N
• Recovery Alberta: N
• Classification: Psychologist II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Early Supported Discharge Team, Ambulatory Neuro Rehab
• Primary Location: Sheldon M Chumir Health Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

• Acute Care Alberta: N
• Primary Care Alberta: N
• Recovery Alberta: N
• Classification: Psychologist II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Early Supported Discharge Team, Ambulatory Neuro Rehab
• Primary Location: Sheldon M Chumir Health Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicabl