Psychologist II

The goal of the Step-Up Step Down program is to provide intensive live-in treatment in conjunction with community support for youth and their families so that the youth are able to re-integrate into their home, school and community. The program collaborates internally and externally to provide consistent, comprehensive, and individualized clinical services to youth across both the live-in and community settings. The program also increases the capacity of youth (and their caregivers’) to manage the youth’s addiction and/ or complex mental health needs through a collaborative and enhanced approach. As a psychologist II, you will be an important part of our multi-disciplinary team. You will listen deeply to clients, their families, and other staff members so that you can provide excellent psychometric testing or therapy with the ultimate goal of providing helpful, actionable, and constructive ideas to our clients and our team. You work well with other members of the team because you know that all members of the team play an important role in the client's success. As you will be a part of the larger Children's Addiction & Mental Health portfolio, while your primary location will be at the Step-Up, Step-Down program, you will be supporting other locations in the portfolio such as Unit 39 at Red Deer Hospital, the Children's Clinical Services/Outpatient Clinic, PChad Program, and others as developed. You will have an interest in frontline service delivery, in addition to research, outcome measures, quality improvement, clinical supervision, and psychological assessment, as these are important aspects of the role.

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.

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).

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. Minimum of 10 years post-licensure experience working with complex youth and families. Formal psychological assessment experience required. Ability to supervise with the College of Alberta Psychologists to supervise future internships and provisional team members. Experience working with complex trauma is required. Minimum 5 years' post-licensure experience working with this population is required.

Experience with a live-in treatment environment is considered an asset.