Your Opportunity:

The Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is a warm & vibrant workplace, with team members providing service to children & their families in inpatient units & ambulatory clinics. The Psychometrist I, as part of the ACH site wide Psychology Service, ensures their clinical practice is aligned with the vison and goals of the psychology service and delivered through a patient and family centered approach. The ideal Psychometrist will possess the following advanced attributes: Comfort and experience working with medically and behaviorally complex children (aged 3-25). Warm, social, and outgoing personality. Excellence in written and verbal communication. Thrives in a fast paced environment and adapts with ease. Exceptional attention to detail. Strong work ethic and autonomy. Embraces multi-tasking and new challenges. Reporting to the Unit Manager for Psychology, the Psychometrist I is a Psychology Testing Assistant that supports the clinical work of neuropsychologists and medical psychologists for the Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH) site. The primary work of the psychology test assistant is the preparation, administration and scoring of intellectual, academic, cognitive and psychological tests. Work direction is provided by the neuropsychologists and medical psychologists from various clinical programs. Other psychometry tasks may include: referrals, patient chart review, contacting families, maintaining the clinical data base, participating in psychometric training of students, supporting the maintenance of and tasks associated with the psychology testing library and participating in research projects as assigned. You will receive training, mentoring, & leadership appropriate to your learning needs.

Description:

As a Psychometrist, you will provide services related to psychological assessment, working under the direction of the responsible psychologist(s). You will meet with patients and administer and score a variety of psychological tests, and record behavioural observations. Your information and results are provided to effectively support the psychologist(s) responsible for interpreting assessment data and any related clinical decision making or recommendations. You may also provide support to psychologists in their research and or evaluation activities.