Psychologist II
Your Opportunity:
Reporting to the Manager of Children’s Day Treatment Program (CDTP), the Psychologist II provides assessment of the psychological functioning of children and adolescents with complex mental health and associated developmental difficulties and provides recommendations to assist in individualized programming and interventions for within CDTP and after discharge from CDTP. The psychologist II administers, scores and interprets formalized evaluations using the most appropriate standardized measures to assist in the assessment, conceptualization and treatment development of children and adolescents. Common areas explored include intellectual and academic functioning (etc.) The psychologist uses measures, interviews, file reviews, etc., as well as information from other team members, to create a conceptualization of the child based on how the team has come to know/understand the child (e.g., factors born with, environmental factors impacting them, current symptoms, and factors that are maintaining the current symptoms).
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 Prof/Tech
- Unit and Program: Children's Day Treatment Program
- Primary Location: Alberta Children's Hospital
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.80
- Posting End Date: 17-APR-2026
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp P/T Benefits
- Date Available: 01-JUN-2026
- Temporary End Date: 04-JUN-2027
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 8
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $60.69
- Maximum Salary: $80.59
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
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 2 years of experience working with Children & Adolescents aged 7-13. Experience in administering and scoring standardized psychological tests (WISC, WIAT) and (MASC, CDI, Brief, ABAS, BASC) Demonstrated attention to detail. Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team. Ability to work independently. Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:Completion of Brain Story Certification Preferred. Collaborative Problem-Solving Training preferred. Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Training is an asset. Experience with and good understanding of use of Interoception training.
