Psychologist II

Job title:

Psychologist II

Company

Alberta Health Services

Job description

Your Opportunity:As a registered psychologist, you will provide advanced clinical services to both adult inpatients and outpatients presenting with a variety of problems including acquired brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, amputations/orthopedic injuries, and general neurological conditions. These clinical services will include psychological assessment (diagnosis and/or intervention), interdisciplinary team consultation, and psychoeducation with patients and their families. Reporting to the Psychology Manager, this position offers a unique opportunity to work within a large, active, supportive psychology department with over 50 psychologists, neuropsychologists, psychometrists, and support staff. The Psychologist II position includes excellent annual vacation for staff, starting with three weeks and increasing to four weeks after one year (with further increases at employment milestones). Personal leave days, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible spending account are also provided, in addition to a generous defined benefit pension plan. Occasional work from home days can be accommodated. Reimbursement of moving expenses may be available. The Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital is the largest freestanding tertiary rehabilitation hospital in Canada, serving rural and urban populations across central/northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The Glenrose helps patients of all ages who require complex rehabilitation achieve optimal physical, sensory, psychological, spiritual, and social recovery. As a leading-edge, fully accredited academic teaching hospital, the Glenrose participates in educational training programs for science, technology, engineering, and medical professionals and offers an array of research and technology development opportunities.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.

• Recovery Alberta: N
• Classification: Psychologist II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Psychology
• Primary Location: Glenrose Rehabilitation Hsp
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 0.60
• Posting End Date: 27-DEC-2024
• Employee Class: Regular Part Time
• Date Available: 06-JAN-2025
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 6
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $52.34
• Maximum Salary: $69.50
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:Completion of doctoral degree in Psychology in an applied area relevant to the practice setting from a Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) or American Psychological Association (APA) program. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Active or eligible for registration with the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP). Additional Required Qualifications:In this advanced clinical position, you will provide and inform services for patients with complex and multidimensional biopsychosocial needs. Treatment-related duties may involve individual and group consultation and brief, time-limited intervention. Assessment-related duties may include brief standardized cognitive batteries, mood screening inventories, and other tools as needed. Preferred Qualifications:As Required.Please note:All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.Security Screening:A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.Healthy Albertans. Healthy
Communities. Together.We’re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care every day, all across Alberta.Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Expected salary

Location

Edmonton, AB

Job date

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 04:01:00 GMT

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