Job Description

Your Opportunity:The Youth Addiction and Forensic Mental Health services is a dynamic portfolio that provides addiction and mental health services to youth and families. The portfolio includes a variety of services along the continuum, including: outpatient, day treatment, and inpatient treatment. The Psychologist II position is a lead clinical position working primarily in the Starting point Treatment Program. This program provides long-term, intensive therapy to adolescents in conflict with the law due to sexual offending behaviour. In addition to providing daily treatment services in this program, the position also provides consultative services to the inpatient addiction services including: Youth Stabilization, Youth Residential and the Protection of Children Abusing Drugs services. As a Clinical Leader in Psychology, the position also provides psychoeducational assessments to outpatient clients and consultative services across the entire portfolio. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent knowledge and expertise in the treatment of sexual offending in adolescents as well as substance use. This position has been identified and is anticipated to transition to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you will transition to Recovery Alberta. Current UNA employees who accept an offer of employment issued after July 1, 2024, will not have any displacement rights as the result of the transfer order.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: Youth Addiction and Forensic Mental Health
• Primary Location: Yellowhead Youth Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 0.90
• Posting End Date: 22-JUL-2024
• Employee Class: Regular Part Time
• Date Available: 01-AUG-2024
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 6
• Shifts per cycle: 27
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $52.34
• Maximum Salary: $69.50
• Vehicle Requirement: Driver\'s License, Vehicle Required

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:Minimum of 2 years as Registered Psychologist. Minimum of 2 years providing treatment services to youth. Certification in Suicide Prevention and Nonviolent Crisis Intervention is required. Preferred Qualifications:Preference given to candidates with experience working within an adolescent forensic service. Preference given to candidates with experience working in addiction treatment environments.Please note:All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.Security Screening:A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.Healthy Albertans. Healthy
Communities. Together.We\'re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care every day, all across Alberta.Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it\'s about putting patients\' and families\' experiences, priorities and trust first.We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

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