Psychometrist

Company description

Kemptville Psychology & Counselling is a private-practice offering psychoeducational assessments and child & youth mental health treatments. We provide support for anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, ADHD and learning disorders.

Job description

Kemptville Psychology & Counselling offers clinical assessment and intervention to children and youth experiencing learning problems, attention difficulties, anxiety and sleep issues. We are currently looking for a psychometrist to conduct standardized psychometric tests in individuals from 6 to 21 years of age during psychoeducational assessments.

We are presently seeking a conscientious and professional individual with flexible schedules who are available mornings and afternoons, 20-30 hours a week. Remuneration is between $45 to $50/hr. The length of the contract is a year (covering a parental leave) with potential for partial extension or on-call work subsequently.

Role Responsibilities:

• Works under the clinical supervision of the psychologist to provide assessment services, including: file review; administration of various standardized psychological tests; recording of responses; scoring of tests using appropriate norms; and contributing to report writing.
• Provides a written summary of the patient's behaviour during testing
• Ensures timeliness, accuracy, availability and security of information
• Maintains accurate records within the practice management software
• Adheres to procedures and standards outlined by Kemptville Psychology & Counselling and the College of Psychologists of Ontario
• Participates in routine health and sanitation measures to ensure patient safety

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in the social sciences essential; graduate training or a post-graduate diploma an asset
• Demonstrated ability in making academic interventions and assessments engaging and fun
• Conscientious, cautious and attention to detail essential
• Experience working with children with learning challenges essential
• Excellent written and communication skills essential
• Ability to work within specific deadlines essential
• Experience administering and scoring psychological and psychoeducational tests an asset
• Experience providing the supervising psychologists with written and/or verbal summary of test results and the client's performance and behaviour in diagnosis and treatment recommendations an asset
• Experience receiving clinical supervision an asset
• Facility with Google Suite and practice-management software an asset

Please include a list of tests you have experience administering and scoring. Training in administration and scoring will be provided, and demonstrated conscientiousness and ability to work in a structured setting with children and youth is of great importance to us.

Job Types: Part-time, Contract

Contract length: 12 months

Pay: $40.00-$50.00 per hour

Application question(s):

• What types of assessments do you have experience administering?
• Are you available mornings and/or afternoons between 8:30 and 4:30 Monday through Friday?
• What experience do you have motivating children and youth with a variety of needs to complete difficult tasks?

Work Location: In person