Psychologist (0.0 - 1.0 Fte) - Ottawa, Canada - The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre

The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre

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Position Information

Posting Number:

ROM24148E
Title:
Psychologist FTE)
Position Status:
Temporary Fulltime
Contract End Date:
11/22/2024
FTE:
1.0
Job Schedule:
Days/Evenings
Department:
Mood & Anxiety
Union:
OPSEU Local 479
Site:
Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
About The Royal
As one of Canada's foremost mental health care and academic health science centres, The Royal has a clear purpose: to get more people living with mental illness into recovery faster. This is at the core of everything we do and it is driven by the passion, focus and dedication of our employees. Every day, the work that we do transforms the lives of people with mental illness through specialized mental healthcare, advocacy, research and education_

The Royal's Mood and Anxiety Program offers evidence-based services consistent with best practice and quality standards to clients with severe and persistent mood and anxiety disorders.

The program is a specialty multidisciplinary unit of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers and Nurses. Treatment services are offered to individuals with complex mood and anxiety conditions including, depressive disorders, bipolar and related disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive

The focus of psychology in the program is on the delivery compulsive and related disorders and trauma

- stressor related disorders.

The focus of Psychology in the program is on the delivery of empirically supported treatments, with emphasis on cognitive behaviour therapies.

Psychologists within our program will also develop, deliver, and evaluate the outcomes of high quality client centered care.

Psychologists play a key role in improving access to appropriate services now through the provision of consultation, training and dissemination of evidence-based practice to other professionals and for the future through participation in clinical training and supervision of next generation of Psychologists within our accredited psychology-training program.

Duties:

Conduct evidencebased psychological assessments, including comprehensive diagnostic assessments and assessments for suitability for shortterm treatment
Conduct risk assessment, crisis intervention plans for suicidality, selfharm, or other safety risks
Administer and interpret standardized psychological assessment instruments for diagnostic and progress monitoring purposes
Provide individual, group psychotherapy and consultation for individuals with Mood and Anxiety Disorders following best practice and evidence based interventions
Experience providing a range of evidence based therapies including CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, IPT and other evidencebased therapies for mood and anxiety disorders, and trauma related disorders.
Advocate, liaise and consult with interdisciplinary teams, relevant community agencies and service providers
Engage client, family, and significant others in the clinical interventions and risk reduction strategies with the clinical team.
Experience providing clinical services via telemedicine or other virtual platforms.
Participate in academic activities including: supervision of predoctoral residents in psychology, practicum students in psychology, and nonregistered psychology staff, and provision of professional consultation to members of other disciplines, teach medical interns and residents
Attend Psychology discipline meetings and participate in discipline activities
Participate in peer consultation, education, teaching, and supervision of students from health related disciplines
Lead, design and participates in program evaluation (evaluation research), in alignment with The Royal strategic goals and Program objectives
Demonstrates professional integrity through adherence to college and hospital guidelines for the practice of psychology, including; adherence to the Canadian Code of Ethics for psychologists, adherence to College of Psychologists of Ontario guidelines for registration, professional practice, professional development, supervision, communications and documentation of client contacts, as well as adherence to The Royal's policies on timely completion of documentation and workload measurement and other related data collection as required.
Designs individualized treatment plans based on assessed needs in conjunction with the interdisciplinary team
Completes comprehensive discharge reports with follow up recommendations
Commitment to continuous quality improvement, best practices and teamwork.
Keeps current of hospital policies and procedures and applicable legislation.
Keeps up to date regarding professional standards by reviewing current literature, attending educational events, networking with colleagues, etc.
Provides educational presentations to community groups.
Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, time management, planning and evaluation