Psychologist II

Your Opportunity:

The Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is a warm & vibrant workplace, with team members providing service to children & their families in inpatient units & ambulatory clinics. The Psychologist II, as part of the ACH site wide Psychology Service, ensures their clinical practice is patient/family centered, delivered in accordance with the Canadian Psychology Association Code of Ethics, evidence based and research informed and aligned with program/clinic services. The Psychologist II position will provide primary support to ACH clinical programs including Eating, Feeding and Swallowing; Early Childhood Rehabilitation and Sensory Clinics well as additional medical clinics as required. The candidate will provide assessment and diagnosis, treatment and consultation to children and their families who have complex neurological, medical and developmental disorders and associated behavioral, academic and psychological difficulties. Consultation is also provided to members of the team, to other ACH staff and physicians as well as community agencies. Clinical research opportunities may be available, participation on program/clinic committees is expected as is the involvement in supervision within the CPA accredited pre-doctoral residency and university practicum programs. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills, adaptability and openness to innovative practice, skills in collaboration and working within a team, and an ability to practice within a Family Centered Care model. You will receive guidance, mentoring, & leadership appropriate to your level of experience. You will work within a multi-disciplinary model of care with surgical, medical, allied health and other psychosocial disciplines to deliver care. Other FTEs may be considered.

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.

• Recovery Alberta:
• Classification: Psychologist II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Medical Psychology, Allied Health
• Primary Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 0.80
• Posting End Date: 21-FEB-2025
• Employee Class: Regular Part Time
• Date Available: 21-APR-2025
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 8
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $52.34
• Maximum Salary: $69.50
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Completion of doctoral degree in Psychology in an applied area relevant to the practice setting from a Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) or American Psychological Association (APA) program. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Active or eligible for registration with the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP).

Additional Required Qualifications:

Recent clinical experience working in a pediatric setting with a major emphasis in assessment and treatment of children, and youth with medical, developmental and mental health problems. Completion of a 1-year clinical internship/residency program accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) or American Psychological Association (APA).

Preferred Qualifications:

Connect Care trained. 3-5 years of clinical experience working in a pediatric acute care hospital setting.