Psychologist (Clinical)*

Institution: National University Polyclinics

Job Description:

You will provide direct services to patients with chronic and mental health issues through conducting clinical interviews, screening, and assessments in an outpatient setting. You will provide individuals and/or group consultations to patients, implement steps to enhance and facilitate collaborations and integration of services among the multi-disciplinary team at the polyclinic and the NUHS cluster. As part of the Psychology team, you will develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate mental health components that will increase the quality of patient care, in qualitative and quantitative terms.

You will design, implement, monitor, and evaluate in-house training and development curriculum for psychologists/allied health/medical professionals to enhance their service quality, as measured by clinical outcome indicators and perform clinical administration.

Requirements:

• MA/MSC in Applied Psychology (Clinical / Counselling Psychology)
• At least 1 year experience counselling patients with chronic health and psychiatric issues in an outpatient setting
• Registered with Singapore Registrar of Psychologists is preferred
• Interest in Primary Care Psychology and demonstrates acquired therapeutic skills for delivery of services in the management of chronic diseases, prevention and population health.
• Ability to work independently in running clinical services at Polyclinics.
• Prepared to travel to different Polyclinics within NUP.