Psychologist (Rft 1.0 Fte)

**Position Information**

**Posting Number**:

- ROM25-047E

**Title**:

- Psychologist (RFT 1.0 FTE)

**Position Status**:

- Regular Full-time

**FTE**:

- 0.9

**Job Schedule**:

- Days/Evenings

**Department**:

- Ontario Structured Psychotherapy

**Union**:

- OPSEU Local 479

**Site**:

- Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre

**About The Royal**
- As one of Canada’s foremost mental health care and academic health science centres, The Royal has a clear purpose: to get more people living with mental illness into recovery faster. This is at the core of everything we do and it is driven by the passion, focus and dedication of our employees. Every day, the work that we do transforms the lives of people with mental illness through specialized mental healthcare, advocacy, research and education._

As a Network Lead Organization for the provincially-funded Ontario Structured Psychotherapy (OSP) program, our mandate is to improve access to effective mental health care for Ontarians. Our program has specific objectives for providing culturally safe and competent care to equity-deserving populations. We provide evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for adults experiencing Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive disorder, Posttraumatic Stress disorder (PTSD), and Illness Anxiety Disorder. The program uses measurement-based care to monitor outcomes and inform treatment planning. Clients are offered treatment within a stepped care model that includes lower intensity services (self-administered strategies with support from a coach or therapist) to higher intensity weekly individual or group therapy with an OSP clinician. Psychologists in OSP provide individual or group consultation to program clinicians who are registered mental health providers, deliver CBT training to OSP clinicians province-wide, and participate in the delivery of clinical services (including assessment and individual and/or group intervention).

The CBT psychologist will be an experienced psychologist (with outstanding demonstrated skills and abilities in psychotherapy, specifically cognitive behavioural therapy) who will be taking on a primary training and consultation role within the development and implementation of the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program.

Responsibilities include a primary role in the provision of standardized provincial training and provision of CBT consultation to autonomously registered community and hospital-based service providers, program development and evaluation, psychodiagnostic assessment and differential diagnosis, and provision of care to clients who have more complex needs.

The clinical consultant will provide clinical consultation and support in achieving equitable service provision to OSP clinicians across the network. The role has a specific focus on understanding the clinical needs of the diverse communities across the region and providing didactic education, training and clinical consultation to OSP clinicians to meet these needs while adhering to CBT principles.

**Duties**:

- Participate in the provision of a provincial training curriculum in CBT for the OSP program (in keeping with the Program’s objectives) to community and hospital-based therapists within our region and provincially
- Provide individual and group clinical consultation to registered mental health therapists
- Provide clinical consultation to clinical intake clinicians
- Conduct clinical assessment and diagnostic interviews to determine suitability for the OSP program
- Interpret standardized psychological assessment instruments
- Practice Measurement Based Care (progress monitoring and outcome evaluation) to inform treatment decisions, enhance client outcomes and support quality improvement initiatives
- Use case conceptualization to design individualized treatment plans based on client needs
- Coordinate care among internal and external service providers
- Ensure services are culturally safe and appropriate
- Collaborate with OSP leadership team to support the development and maintenance of relationships with relevant community partners.
- Participate in community outreach initiatives and events
- Collaborate with OSP leadership to engage with community stakeholders in indentifying the clinical needs of equity deserving community members in the OSP East Region
- Provide training and consultation to OSP clinicians on adapting CBT practice to meet the needs of diverse communities while adhering to CBT principles. This may include offering training and mentorship in providing culturally safe and responsive mental health services to equity-deserving populations, including LGBTQ2S+ and gender affirming care, anti-racist care, and care that is sensitive and responsive to diverse ethnic or cultural backgrounds.
- Provide psychological treatment in individual or group format for the purpose of maintaining clinical skills and for direct training and consultation of trainees
- Function as an effective member of an i