Clinical Psychologist

Position Summary
We have an exciting permanent full time opportunity for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join the Interior Health team at Hillside Centre-Adult Psychology in Kamloops, B.C

Salary Range:

Effective April 1, 2024, the pay scale for this position is $52.81 to $65.96.

**Eligible applicants can receive up to $15K signing bonus.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and an attractive remuneration package: We offer a highly competitive salary aligned with industry standards, coupled with an attractive remuneration package. This ensures you are fairly compensated for your skills, expertise, and contributions to our team.
• Career Growth: At IH, we are committed to your professional development. Whether you’re looking to enhance your skills, take on new responsibilities, or grow into leadership roles, we provide a supportive environment with clear career progression pathways to help you achieve your ambitions.
• Employer paid training/education: We invest in your success by setting you up with in-house professional development courses relevant to your role. This ensures you stay ahead in your field while growing your expertise at no personal cost.
• Employer paid vacation (per collective agreement): Enjoy the benefits of generous vacation time, paid in accordance with our collective agreement, allowing you to recharge and spend quality time with family and friends while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
• Employer paid insurance premiums: We provide peace of mind by fully covering the premiums for essential insurance plans, including life, disability, and extended health coverage, ensuring you and your loved ones are protected.
• Extended Health & Dental coverage: Our extended health and dental plans are designed to go above and beyond basic coverage, including services such as prescription medications, vision care, dental care, and specialized treatments. Your well-being is our priority.
• Contribution to Municipal Pension Plan: We contribute to the Municipal Pension Plan, helping you build a secure financial future. This pension plan offers long-term stability, giving you confidence and peace of mind for your retirement years.
• Balanced lifestyle: We believe in promoting a balanced lifestyle by fostering a workplace culture that values flexibility, mental wellness, and personal time. Our focus on balance ensures you can excel at work while thriving in your personal life.

What will you work on?

The Clinical Psychologist is responsible for providing psychological services, including assessment, individual therapy, group therapy, and treatment planning in the clinical practice area of Tertiary Mental Health Services. This position supports a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to service delivery within the continuum of Allied Health services.

This role offers the Clinical Psychologist an opportunity of working autonomously and independently while practicing assessment and psychotherapy with a population that tends to be diverse and more complex.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides comprehensive psychological assessment services, utilizing standardized and evidenced based interview and assessment procedures.
• Within a bio/psycho/social treatment model and working as part of a multidisciplinary team, incorporates psychological assessment results with the broader treatment plan.
• Provides evidenced based (including behavioural and cognitive-behavioural) individual short-term therapy/counseling interventions.
• Participates in client/patient conferences and team meetings as required and communicates pertinent information to all disciplines involved.
• Supports an interdisciplinary approach to client/patient care and ensures coordination of services/programs with community agencies, other health care providers and special interest groups, by participating in interdisciplinary and interagency meetings for the purpose of collaboration around client/patient management, program planning, and discharge planning.
• Provides consultation to the treatment team, clients/patients, family and/or community personnel, regarding management and/or treatment of mental, behavioural, adjustment and psychosocial disorders.
• Evaluates effectiveness and appropriateness of treatment and resources by methods such as assessing client/patient functioning, identifying opportunities for change, and formulating recommendations for quality improvement to ensure optimal outcomes are met.
• Maintains and orders psychological assessment materials, and assesses ongoing psychological testing material requirements.
• Supports evidence based clinical practice by monitoring, evaluating, and contributing to the development of recommendations for change, within the context of ongoing program planning, consultation, and evaluation.

Scheduling Information:

Shift times are from 08:30 to 16:30 hours. Days of work are Monday to Friday.

About this location/unit

Hillside Centre is a 44 bed facility located on the Royal Inland Hospital campus. Services are provided to both adults and elderly individuals with acute illness and/or severely dysfunctional behaviours who cannot be cared for in the psychiatric system in their own area. The focus is on diagnosis and stabilization with rehabilitation strategies to promote stabilization and reintegration into the community to return home.

This site offers three programs: Neuropsychiatry, Adult Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry and the focus is on diagnosis and stabilization.

How will you create an impact?

The Clinical Psychologist creates a meaningful impact by enhancing patient outcomes through evidence-based assessments, therapy, and treatment planning tailored to complex mental health needs. The Clinical Psychologist foster multidisciplinary collaboration, integrating psychological insights into holistic care while providing consultation and education to patients, families, and teams. By promoting evidence-based practices, participating in program planning, and maintaining psychological resources, they drive quality improvement and align services with best practices. Your contributions will strengthen the organization’s expertise and mental health service offerings, supporting its mission to deliver high-quality, comprehensive care.

Joining our IH team will allow you to challenge yourself professionally while enjoying all the personal pursuits available to you within this fantastic community.

Reasons to Apply at Interior Health... What we can do for you

We offer a work environment conducive to growth and development of strong skills and a work environment that supports and promotes psychological health & safety for all. We offer the opportunity to have a balanced lifestyle that allows you to maintain the quality of life you desire.

Come and join a Tertiary Mental Health Service that is valued among colleagues. Interior Health was named one of Canada’s top 100 employers! Explore our extensive benefits, career growth opportunities, and lifestyle in one of the most beautiful and diverse regions of Canada. Ready to love where you live and work? Join our team today!

Qualfications
Education, Training and Experience:

Ph.D. in Psychology or equivalent from a university or school recognized by the College of Psychologists’ of British Columbia, with an approved pre-doctoral internship in clinical psychology.

Current registration with the College of Psychologists’ of British Columbia (or eligible for registration).

Five years recent related experience in clinical psychology in the assigned clinical practice area(s).

**“Please note Interior Health welcomes applications from new graduates who have less than five years of work experience. Successful applicants will be provided with any post-doctoral supervision needed to achieve registration with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia. The number of hours per week (Full Time Equivalency) can be negotiated for many of our posted psychology positions. If you are at all interested in one of these positions, we invite you to contact External Recruitment (external.recruitment@interiorhealth.ca) and discuss opportunities with one of our Psychology Practice Leads.”