Clinical Psychologist

Job title:

Medical Psychologist

Firm

Nova Scotia Well being Authority

Job description

Firm : IWK Well being

Req ID: 174801
Division/Program: AIS Addictions Day and Out Consumer, Psychological Well being & Addictions Program
Location: Halifax
Kind of Employment: Everlasting Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 place(s)

Begin Date: March 2024
Union Standing: NSGEU Hlthcare, Healthcare Bargaining Unit
Compensation: $50.1894 – $64.9328 /hour
Closing Date: February 27, 2024 (Functions are accepted till 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Well being is a revered tutorial well being sciences centre situated in Halifax, Nova Scotia, offering tertiary and first care for 2 million kids, youth, adults and households every year throughout the Atlantic area. Now we have a staff of roughly 4000 workers, physicians, volunteers and learners at websites throughout . Folks construct careers with IWK Well being with our concentrate on coaching and mentorship alternatives. We acknowledge one another’s expertise and have fun our successes. We collaborate in trendy services or just about from dwelling, align our work to our , and revel in entry to enhanced and wellness packages. We’re proud to assist our sufferers, households and communities and are grateful for the beneficiant donor assist we obtain.

Selling an anti-racist setting, and calling out discrimination as we work and supply care, is essential to us. We’re situated in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq individuals. Working in Mi’kma’ki and offering care to these throughout Atlantic Canada is a shared privilege with the unique inhabitants who’ve lived right here for a lot of 1000’s of years previous to colonization. There are 13 First Nation communities throughout Nova Scotia, and greater than 50 historic African Nova Scotian communities who even have an extended, deep, and sophisticated historical past relationship again over 400 years. Now we have the very best share of individuals with disabilities within the nation. Nova Scotia has the very best proportions of transgender and non-binary individuals than some other province or territory within the nation. We’re energetic in our work to remove discrimination, however have extra work to do to construct that belief, acknowledge our biases and scale back the limitations our numerous communities face. We would like IWK Well being to be a secure and supportive area of fairness and belonging within the care we offer and the employment we provide. We welcome all individuals who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Individuals of Color, Immigrants/Newcomers, Individuals with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to use to assist our objective for our workforce to be consultant of the sufferers, households, and communities that we take care of in any respect job ranges.

The Alternative

aboratively on tasks and share experiences with different psychologists in several fields of apply. The IWK Well being Centre Predoctoral Residency Program in Pediatric and Baby-Adolescent Psychology is CPA accredited. The profitable candidate might be anticipated to actively take part in coaching residents. The MHA Program supplies on the IWK Well being Centre supplies a full spectrum of psychological well being providers that features outpatient group psychological well being, day therapy and residential providers of kids and adolescents, inpatient hospital care, forensics, and addictions. The Adolescent Intensive Companies (AIS) Program has each ambulatory and non-acute inpatient providers for adolescents aged 13 – 19 years previous with psychological well being and/or substance abuse problems. The youth admitted to the non-acute inpatient providers attend day providers with AIS Day Remedy. Ambulatory Companies embody AIS Day Service (with 4 streams: Trauma, Internalizing, Externalizing, and concurrent) and AIS Aftercare Service. Day Companies implies that the affected person attends programming Monday to Friday and participates in therapeutic faculty, particular person household and group-based interventions that concentrate on their therapy targets. Companies at AIS embody two phases of therapy (onsite and group) that span roughly six to seven months mixed. The profitable candidate would require strong coaching and expertise with a wide range of psychological well being populations, and will need to have the capability to adapt nicely to new medical calls for, work collaboratively with interprofessional groups, and have glorious management abilities. In accord with the IWK philosophy of Household Centre Care, households and caregivers are essential companions within the therapeutic course of. Obligations will embody psychological assessments, program improvement, evidence-based psychological well being therapy (group, household, particular person), workers supervision, session to different workers members and to group service suppliers, and program analysis. The Psychologist can have an energetic function in program improvement, service analysis, mother or father and workers training and skills-based coaching packages).

Hours of Work

Monday to Friday, 7.5 hours days.

Your {Qualifications}

• Ph.D/PsyD Diploma in Medical Psychology from an accredited college program.
• Completion of an APA or CPA Accredited Predoctoral Internship in Psychology.
• Presently registered, or eligible to be registered, with the Nova Scotia Board of Examiners in Psychology.
• Minimal 5 (5) years of formal coaching and medical expertise in youngster/adolescent psychological well being; no less than two years medical expertise as a PhD/DPsych ready Psychologist.
• Demonstrated expertise and abilities in evaluation and therapy of youth and households the place a youngster is battling psychological well being and/or addictions points. A specific talent set in working with disruptive behaviours is an asset.
• Demonstrated proficiency in offering each household and particular person remedy.
• Latest expertise in offering medical supervision to workers/staff most popular in addition to demonstrated means to seek the advice of with each different professionals.
• Theoretical information and apply competency in a household techniques strategy most popular. Data and expertise within the Ecosystemic Structural Household Remedy mannequin an asset.
• Demonstrated excellence in communication, management and interpersonal abilities.
• Demonstrated glorious time administration, workload prioritization, and organizational abilities.
• Demonstrated battle decision abilities.
• Demonstrated means to work collaboratively as a member of an interprofessional care staff, whereas successfully finishing up administrative and medical obligations.
• Working information of Trauma Knowledgeable Care most popular.
• NCI Certification required.
• Profitable completion of CPR Degree C Well being Care Supplier course within the final 12 months required.
• Understanding of, and dedication to, proof knowledgeable apply/greatest apply.
• Means to take part within the medical coaching actions of the Psychology Self-discipline.
• Competencies in different languages an asset; French most popular.
• Holds a legitimate minimal Class 5 Nova Scotia driver’s license and dependable transportation required.

Thanks on your curiosity in IWK Well being.

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It is a Healthcare bargaining unit place. Desire is given to bargaining unit workers for unionized positions. Profitable candidates altering unions, bargaining models or employment standing, are suggested to hunt clarification concerning their seniority, advantages, and trip entitlement and/or utilization, previous to accepting the place.

A proposal of employment is conditional upon the completion and passable outcomes of all relevant background checks and affirmation of credentials. Moreover, as per Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 Vaccine mandate, any provide of employment might be conditional upon submitting proof of full vaccination standing. Medical exceptions or some other type of requested exception based mostly upon the Well being Centre’s obligations pursuant to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Code might be thought-about on a case-by-case foundation

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Anticipated wage

Location

Halifax, NS

Job date

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:27:36 GMT

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