Psychologist Ii

Your Opportunity:
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.
- **Classification**:Psychologist II
- ** Union**:HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- ** Unit and Program**:Forensics
- ** Primary Location**:Southern AB Forensic Psych Cen
- ** Location Details**:As Per Location
- ** Multi-Site**:Not Applicable
- ** FTE**:1.00
- ** Posting End Date**:01-MAY-2024
- ** Employee Class**:Regular Full Time
- ** Date Available**:15-JUL-2024
- ** Hours per Shift**:7.75
- ** Length of Shift in weeks**:4
- ** Shifts per cycle**:20
- ** Shift Pattern**:Days
- ** Days Off**:Saturday/Sunday
- ** 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**:
Minimum of two years' experience within a mental health setting. Solid knowledge of the common psychological tests used to assess cognitive functioning, personality and psychopathology. Experience in administration and interpretation of psychometric testing. Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team or independently. Excellent communication skills. Extensive experience in completing comprehensive psychological reports. Familiarity of the court process as it pertains to defending psychological reports and for the purpose of court ordered assessments. NVCI and CPS training.

**Preferred Qualifications**:
One or more years’ experience as a psychologist in a related field. Previous experience in a forensic and/or mental health setting. Final PHD focus in the area of Forensic Psychology. Previous experience in custodial settings.