Psychologist II

Across Cancer Care Alberta (CCA), Supportive Care Services are provided by a dedicated team of healthcare professionals focused on improving the quality of life for individuals affected by cancer. From diagnosis, throughout treatment and beyond, the psychosocial team offers expert care and compassionate support. CCA professionals are leaders in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and palliative care, all grounded in cutting-edge, world-class research. As a member of the Department of Psychosocial Oncology at the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre, the Psychologist II plays a vital role in delivering clinical care through assessment, treatment, and consultation for complex medical conditions related to cancer or its treatments. This role involves providing specialized psychological interventions in individual, couples/family, and group formats, while also serving as a leader and expert within the psychosocial team. Interventions are delivered in-person or via virtual health technology, ensuring accessible care for cancer patients across Southern Alberta. The Psychologist II will actively contribute to meeting the psychosocial needs of cancer patients and their families through collaboration with medical, nursing, and other healthcare professionals. Additionally, they will play an integral role in the development, evaluation, and research of psychosocial oncology programs at both local and provincial levels, as well as provide clinical supervision to trainees. This position will primarily focus on patients diagnosed with breast cancer while also supporting other tumor groups to ensure timely access to counseling services. The hours and caseload for this role may be adjusted based on operational needs. In Fall 2024, this position will transition to the new Arthur Child Cancer Centre.

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).

Minimum 1 year experience providing clinical psychological services in an urban adult oncology setting. Minimum 2 years’ experience providing clinical psychological services. Within the last 12 months, experience working with patients and support persons diagnosed with cancer. Experience providing interventions in individual, couples/family, and group modalities. Experience providing virtual care within the last year.

Three years’ experience providing adult psychological services. Experience supporting patients diagnosed with blood and hematological cancers. Experience providing trauma intervention and/ or palliative care-directed interventions. Experience conducting research in a clinical health setting. Experiencing providing clinical supervision to advanced level trainees.