Psychologist

Working in a multi-disciplinary team, the Psychologist will provide psychotherapy services for children, individuals, couples and families using a trauma-focused lens. The Senior Psychologist will also be involved in supervision, training and professional development activities for Melrose Care and Melrose Home, when required.

Key Responsibilities

1. Clinical

• Provide evidence informed therapeutic services for clients, incorporating best practice principles and guidelines like trauma-focused and trauma-informed care.
• Practice standards should minimally be conducted according to local professional bodies that provide oversight on therapeutic human services and according to Melrose Care standards of practice.
• When needed and where consent has been obtained, provide consultation, support and update on the clients' progress and status to caregivers and all those involved in the care team.
• Keep timely and proper records of the sessions and case conferences conducted as well as supervision notes pertaining to the case. The records should be of a professional standard guided minimally by related local professional associations such as Singapore Association of Counselling and the like and according to Melrose Care SOPs and standards of practice.
• Where needed, prepare and submit professional reports to referring agencies, the court, etc.
• Evaluate and reflect on own clinical practice to ensure that clients’ needs are met and standards adhered to.
• Provide clinical input to centre’s processes (intake processes, case assignments etc), practice standards to ensure that they are trauma-informed and in accordance with best practices and professional standards.
• Conduct mental health assessment for youth and adolescent, and adults (when required for client’s caregivers/parents).
• Contribute to initial assessments, initial consultations with clients and referring agencies.
• Supervise and participate in referral screening process where needed.
• Initiate engagement and work collaboratively with other stakeholders/community partners to support clients and develop their own trauma informed community of support.

2. Professional Development

• Keep abreast of development in areas pertaining to best practice guidelines for trauma-focused interventions, emerging evidence-based interventions and other relevant and sound therapeutic techniques. This could be in the form of readings, online/in-person training.
• Participate and co-facilitate regular internal supervision sessions and other internal professional group meetings.
• Where needed and directed by Centre Head, conduct in-house or external training programmes for relevant staff, caregivers and volunteers in the organization/community.

Experience and qualifications

• Minimum Masters in Clinical / Counselling Psychology
• Professional training/certification in specific therapeutic modalities, preferably in trauma-informed practices
• Ability to conceptualise complex cases, make sound assessment, and develop appropriate intervention plans
• Minimum 2 years of clinical experience providing therapeutic intervention to children and adolescents impacted by abuse/trauma
• Prior experience volunteering or working in community-based organisations
• Prior experience engaging both internal and external stakeholders and partners
• Eligible for registration with relevant professional body

Qualities

• Ability to balance clinical and agency needs in areas like clinical intervention, case conferences, when dealing with clients, external partners etc
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills with good organisational and time management
• Self-motivated to learn and integrate a range of therapeutic modalities for the benefit of client