Psychologist Ii - Edmonton, Canada - Alberta Health Services

Alberta Health Services

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Edmonton, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Your Opportunity:

Reporting to the Psychology Manager, this position offers a unique opportunity to work within a large, active, and supportive psychology department with over 50 psychologists, neuropsychologists, psychometrists, and support staff.

The Glenrose psychology service forms part of the Edmonton Consortium Clinical Psychology Residency program - a great opportunity to mentor new psychologists-in-training.

Our service has offered predoctoral internship training since 1980, joining with Alberta Hospital Edmonton in 1996 to form Edmonton's first consortium (the U of A joined in 2005 to form the current residency consortium).

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 and comprehensive benefits are also provided, in addition to a generous defined benefit pension plan. Furthermore, occasional WFH days can be accommodated within the 1.0 FTE, and days of work are negotiable.

The Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital is the largest freestanding tertiary rehabilitation hospital in Canada, serving rural and urban populations across central and northern Alberta, and the Northwest Territories.

The Glenrose helps patients of all ages who require complex rehabilitation to 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.

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: 1.

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Posting End Date: 21-FEB-2024

Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits

Date Available: 04-MAR-2024

Temporary End Date: 03-MAR-2025

Hours per Shift: 7.75
Length of Shift in weeks: 2
Shifts per cycle: 10
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:

As a transitional grad initiative, this position is supernumerary in nature until training is complete and independent practice competency has been met and assessed or for a maximum duration of 12 months.

Working within the Pediatric Rehabilitation Division on multidisciplinary teams offering assessment, consultation, and/or treatment, the focal age group will be toddlers, and pre-school and school-aged children, although some services may also be provided to older adolescents.

The psychologist will complete developmental, cognitive, behavioural, and/or learning assessments for children with complex physical/medical, developmental, and learning problems. Differential diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a critical component of this position. This position is limited to new graduates who have recently completed their educational requirements.

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