Psychologist II

Alberta Health Services; Red Deer; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

An innovative healthcare organization is seeking a dedicated Psychologist II to join their multidisciplinary team. This role is crucial for delivering advanced clinical services, including psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions, to youth facing complex mental health challenges. You will work collaboratively with a committed team, ensuring evidence-based practices while contributing to program development and quality improvement efforts. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of young individuals and their families, fostering their recovery and reintegration into the community. If you are passionate about mental health and eager to lead in a supportive environment, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical services including assessment, diagnosis, and intervention.
• Supervision of psychology residents and interns.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological assessment and intervention to youth and families.
• Lead program development and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Psychological Assessment

Clinical Leadership

Therapeutic Intervention

Collaboration

Quality Improvement

Education

Doctoral degree in Psychology

Job description

Your Opportunity:

The goal of the Step-Up Step Down program is to provide intensive live-in treatment combined with community support for youth and their families, facilitating their reintegration into home, school, and community. The program collaborates internally and externally to deliver consistent, comprehensive, and individualized clinical services across both live-in and community settings. It aims to enhance the capacity of youth and their caregivers to manage addiction and/or complex mental health needs through a collaborative approach.

As a Psychologist II, you will be a vital member of our multidisciplinary team. Your role involves listening deeply to clients, families, and staff to provide excellent psychometric testing or therapy, with the goal of delivering helpful, actionable insights. Collaboration with team members is essential, recognizing that each plays a crucial role in client success. While your primary location will be at the Step-Up, Step-Down program, you will also support other sites within the Children's Addiction & Mental Health portfolio, such as Unit 39 at Red Deer Hospital, the Children's Clinical Services/Outpatient Clinic, and the PChad Program.

Your interests may include frontline service delivery, research, outcome measurement, quality improvement, clinical supervision, and psychological assessment, which are integral to this role.

Description:

As a Psychologist II, you will provide advanced clinical services, including psychological assessment, diagnosis, intervention, consultation, and education to the interprofessional team and patients/families. You may also provide clinical leadership and coordination within an assigned program area. This advanced role involves working with teams to deliver services for patients with complex, multi-dimensional needs across medical, psychological, interpersonal, environmental, and instrumental domains.

You will ensure practices are evidence-based and aligned with psychology standards, ethics, policies, legislation, and regulations. Additionally, you will lead or participate in program development, policy and procedure formulation, service planning, staff development, quality improvement, evaluation, and research activities as needed. Supervision of doctoral psychology residents, master's interns, provisional psychologists, psychometrists, and other team members may also be part of your responsibilities.

Additional Details:
- Classification: Psychologist II
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Step Up Step Down
- Location: Sheldon Kennedy Centre of Excellence
- FTE: 0.90
- Posting End Date: 08-AUG-2025
- Employee Class: Regular Part Time
- Start Date: 18-AUG-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Salary Range: $52.34 - $69.50 per hour
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:
- Doctoral degree in Psychology from a CPA or APA-accredited program or equivalent
- Active or eligible registration with the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP)

Additional Qualifications:
- Transition to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024; employment will be with Recovery Alberta
- Minimum of 10 years post-licensure experience with complex youth and families
- Experience in psychological assessment and supervision
- Experience working with complex trauma, minimum 5 years post-licensure

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in a live-in treatment environment is an asset.