Psychologist Phd

**About SickKids**:
Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day. SickKids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join SickKids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of _Healthier Children. A Better World_.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to work alongside the world’s best in paediatric healthcare.

**Position Description**:
**Psychologist - Health/Clinical: Inpatient & Outpatient Mental Health Services**

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a leading specialty pediatric hospital and research centre providing innovative, complex care and treatment to children youth and families. Serving a diversity of patients and families, SickKids’ psychologists are members of the Brain and Mental Health Program and are deployed across specialty divisions of the hospital providing a broad range of important clinical consultation, assessment, diagnostic and treatment activities to ensure caregivers, families and patients receive wholistic, evidence-informed on-site services and transition planning. Providing services in one of the most diverse cities in the country, SickKids’ psychologists are committed to enhancing health equity, respectful service and inclusion of all populations served by the hospital.

SickKids Mental Health is growing its capacity to assess and treat patients with primary mental health disorders including those diagnosed with mood, complex anxiety, behaviour and adjustment disorders. Additionally, SickKids is investing in the integration of treatment for concurrent physical and mental health disorders and will establish new services focused on these complex populations and their families.

**Here's What You'll Get To Do**:

- Provide psychological consultation, assessment, formulation, diagnosis and treatment to children and adolescents with a broad range of concurrent physical and mental health disorders
- Work collaboratively with existing mental health and medical colleagues to ensure integrated and complementary service delivery for concurrent physical and mental health issues
- Provide clinical teaching and supervision to PhD-level Psychology trainees, Psychiatry Residents & Fellows, and other health professional colleagues
- Participate in departmental initiatives and program-specific committees
- Practice from an integrated model that considers the implications of medical, physical, mental health, family cultural contexts and issues of social complexity
- Demonstrate capacity to manage highly charged situations inclusive of the prevention and management of behavioural escalations and responding to Code White situations
- Collaborate with a large and diverse inter-professional health care team
- Assume responsibility for all aspects of practice including accountabilities for standards of practice, productivity, and workload related data necessary for hospital reporting
- Delivery of services in-person as well as virtual

**Here’s What You’ll Need**:
**Essential Requirements**
- Completion of a CPA/APA recognized Ph.D. degree program and accredited internship in either Health and/or Clinical Psychology is required with a pediatric/developmental focus
- Minimum five (5) years related experience in paediatric clinical-health psychology setting
- Excellent assessment, diagnostic, formulation and treatment skills for patients dealing with the interaction of complex medical and mental health challenges
- Registered and in good standing with the College of Psychologists of Ontario for autonomous practice
- Demonstrated skills in patient and family engagement, customizing treatment to the needs of patients and families inclusive of trauma informed, culturally competent care and supporting families in all phases of treatment including preparing for transition and discharge
- Knowledge and experience with crisis prevention and intervention models
- Experience providing clinical supervision for PhD-level psychology trainees
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, complex, highly accountable inter-professional environment where the needs of patients and families are at the center of program design, decision making, and continuous quality improvement
- Excellent interpersonal, clinical written skills for the purposes of documentation and oral communication, organizational and time management skills
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge