Psychologist II (Neuropsychologists & Clinical Psychologists)

Your Opportunity:

Clinical Psychology Services (CPS) is a community clinic within the Edmonton Zone, Addiction & Mental Health (AMH) program. The clinic is located in the Garneau neighbourhood of Edmonton’s southside. We are recruiting to positions in both Neuropsychology & Clinical Psychology to join our team of leading-edge psychologists providing services to adults experiencing complex mental health or concurrent substance use disorders. Neuropsychologist Positions: Focused primarily on providing consultation and formal assessment of neurocognitive disorders. Clinical Psychologist Positions: A blended role providing formal assessment and evidence-based group psychotherapy as a primary treatment using clinical outcome measurement. Individual follow-up for psychotherapy is provided on an as needed basis. The team receives their referrals from internal mental health and addiction providers from across the continuum of care. CPS is community based however, inreach to psychiatric inpatient units for formal assessment is provided on an as needed basis. Formal assessment services may target diagnostic clarification and differential diagnosis of DSM-5-TR Disorders, case conceptualization and treatment planning, social, academic and occupational functioning, personality traits and profiles, as well as intellectual and cognitive functioning. A team of dedicated psychometrists provide support and maintain a current test library. The team is engaged in service planning, evaluation, quality improvement initiatives, training and supervision of doctoral level psychology residents. CPS adheres to the AMH Principles of Care which prioritize client centered care, collaboration between the care team & client, trauma informed, concurrent disorder capable & recovery oriented care. Qualified candidates are welcomed to contact the manager: Laura.Locher@ahs.ca

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.