Senior Psychologist

-; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Singapore is seeking an experienced psychologist to provide a full range of psychological assessments and interventions for students. The role includes managing crisis situations, training stakeholders, and leading clinical supervision. Candidates must possess a Master's degree in Psychology and have at least five years of relevant experience in psychological services. This position allows for collaboration with educational professionals to uplift psychological practices in education.

Qualifications

• 5 years of work experience in relevant areas.
• Proficient in psychological assessment and therapy.
• Ability to work collaboratively with professionals.

Responsibilities

• Conduct psychological assessments and interventions.
• Manage crisis situations and provide training.
• Lead clinical supervision and perform administrative tasks.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Crisis intervention

Therapeutic interventions

Training stakeholders

Education

Masters in Applied Psychology/ Clinical Psychology

Job description

Job Purpose:

The psychologist is expected to provide a full range of evidence-based and best practices in psychological services to students including conduct psychological assessments, deliver interventions and manage crisis situations. You are also function as a member of the allied professional team to collaborate with stakeholders, maintain professional and ethical standards, undertake research and continuous improvement and uplift professional practice of psychology in education.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Psychological Assessment
   • School admission, programme placement, identification of socio-emotional and behavioural needs, progress monitoring, mental capacity for assisted deputyship application programme.
   • Conduct vocational profiling and facilitate the combination of report meeting.
   • Conduct admission screening to ensure fitted school placement.
   • Select and administer screening and assessment tools (e.g. BASC, mood disorder checklist).
   • Select and administer standardised psychological assessment for mental capacity assessment.
   • Prepare assessment resources and protocol for mental capacity assessments so as to contextualise to the needs of the student.
   • Prepare assessment report including scoring and interpretation.
   • Make recommendation and conclusion based on assessment results.
   • Guide junior psychologist in psychological assessments including selection, test administration, and report writing.
2. Provide Psychological Interventions for students referred for socio-emotional and behavioural needs.
   • Conduct individual intervention.
   • Conduct group intervention.
   • Guide junior psychologist in case conceptualisation, treatment planning and progress monitoring.
   • Lead in the design and crafting of group intervention.
3. Manage Crisis
   • Recognise signs and symptoms of distress.
   • Provide crisis intervention.
   • Administer suicide risk assessment.
   • Make recommendation for follow-up actions after the crisis.
   • Guide junior psychologist in crisis intervention including recognising signs and symptoms of distress, soft‑skills to de‑escalate students in distress, and conduct risk assessment.
   • Conduct psychological debriefing session after the crisis.
4. Provide training to stakeholders
   • Conduct training for stakeholders (e.g. employer education, staff induction).
   • Conduct specialised training (e.g. CARE Kit training, Understanding self‑harm behaviour).
   • Lead in the design and customisation of training to meet needs of stakeholders.
   • Collect and collate data to measure training effectiveness.
   • Evaluate and review effectiveness of training design to ensure overall training objectives are met.
5. Perform Clinical Supervision
   • Provide guidance to junior staff on assessment, case intervention so as to adhere to both organisational and psychological guidelines.
6. Leadership
   • Provide thought leadership in the design of the various portfolios in psychology discipline.
   • Provide ongoing guidance to junior psychologist or intern in their key responsibilities and functions.
7. Administrative duties
   • Digitization of reports.
   • Documentation of clinical duties.
   • Assist in preparing and submitting Key Review Area (KRA) and targets to AP Manager.
   • Carry out other administrative duties assigned by AP Manager.

Job Requirements:

• Possess a Masters in Applied Psychology/ Clinical Psychology from an accredited university and be registered/eligible for registration with SRP or an equivalent professional body.
• Possess a minimum of 5 years of work related experience with relevant exposure in the area of intellectual disability or other related disabilities.
• Expertise and familiarity in conducting and interpreting psychological assessment.
• Proficient in a range of evidence‑based therapeutic interventions.
• Skilled in crisis intervention and management.
• Ability to provide training to stakeholders.
• Dedicated to ongoing professional development through clinical supervision.
• Provide leadership in assigned initiatives.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other allied professionals in the department and with teachers and caregivers.
• Candidate with Masters in Applied Psychology/ Clinical Psychology without the required minimum years of work related experience will be considered for the position of Psychologist.
• Working Location: Choa Chu Kang.