Psychologist II

Your Opportunity:

Calgary Youth Substance Use and Mental Health Services (YSUMHS)- Under the supervision of the Manager and in collaboration with the members of the YSUMHS Community Outpatient Team (COT), the Psychologist II will provide clinical psychological assessment as it primary role. The Psychologist II may also provides systems and family-based assessment and treatment (including but not limited to individual, family and group therapy) of a varied caseload of concurrent disorder adolescents and their families. The incumbent will supervises graduate students, practicum students and pre-doctoral interns. As a Psychologist II, you will provide advanced clinical services (including psychological assessment, diagnosis and/or intervention), consultation and education to the interdisciplinary team and to adolescent patients/families. This is an advanced level psychology position that will allow you to work with or within teams to provide and inform services for adolescent patients with complex and multi-dimensional medical, psychological, interpersonal, environmental, and/or instrumental needs. You may 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). Some evening work may be required and support of other programs under this managers portfolio may be required. This position has transitioned to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you agree to and will become an employee of Recovery Alberta.

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.