Your Opportunity:
The Psychology II position reports to the manager of Child and Adolescent Addiction and Mental Health and Psychiatry Program (CAAMHPP) Specialized Services, an outpatient tertiary level service for children and adolescents who present with complex and co-morbid mental health disorders and associated neurological, developmental, neurodevelopmental, cognitive and behavioral issues. The Neuropsychiatry Service (NPS) provides service within a multidisciplinary team context and offers consultation, diagnostic assessment and episodic treatment within a family-centered model of care. The responsibilities of the Psychologist II include working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to provide diagnostic clarity, evidence-informed intervention for children and adolescents and their families, and consultation to professionals within and external to Recovery Alberta. The successful candidate must be skillful in building capacity with parents, home and school teams to learn to manage children with complex needs. The Psychology II position is an advanced clinical position that requires good communication and interpersonal skills, sound judgement, and the ability to practice independently and collaboratively with team members and professionals. Skills in program development, evaluation and research are required and participation in these activities may be required. The supervision of Provisional Psychologists and Psychology Residents is expected. The position is assigned to the Neuropsychiatry Service and can be reassigned to another area of Specialized Services based on operational need. 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 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: Y
• Classification: Psychologist II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Child and Adolescent Addiction and Mental Health Specialized Services
• Primary Location: Richmond Road Diag Treat Centr
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

• Acute Care Alberta: N
• Primary Care Alberta: N
• Recovery Alberta: Y
• Classification: Psychologist II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Child and Adolescent Addiction and Mental Health Specialized Services
• Primary Location: Richmond Road Diag Treat Centr
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicabl