Psychologist II
Your Opportunity:
Expand your impact beyond traditional psychological practice and join the dedicated team at the Claresholm Centre for Mental Health and Addictions. As a Psychologist II, you will work within a specialized inpatient mental health and addiction environment, supporting individuals with complex and multidimensional needs through assessment, diagnosis, consultation, and therapeutic intervention. This advanced practice role offers the opportunity to work collaboratively with a diverse multidisciplinary team while providing clinical leadership, mentoring emerging clinicians, and contributing to program development and quality improvement initiatives. If you are passionate about evidence-informed care, clinical excellence, and helping shape innovative approaches to mental health and addiction treatment, this position offers a rewarding opportunity to support recovery while influencing service delivery at both the patient and program level.
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: Administration
- Primary Location: Claresholm Centre for MH&A
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.80
- Posting End Date: 17-NOV-2026
- Employee Class: Regular Part Time
- Date Available: 30-NOV-2026
- 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:Experience providing psychological assessment, diagnostic clarification, and treatment planning for individuals with complex mental health and concurrent addiction concerns. Experience administering, interpreting, and integrating standardized measures such as the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA), Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), and Behaviour and Symptom Identification Scale (BASIS) to inform treatment planning, monitor client progress, and support program evaluation. Knowledge of evidence-informed therapeutic approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed practice, and trauma-informed care. Strong consultation, collaboration, and clinical leadership skills, with the ability to support interdisciplinary teams managing complex presentations. Experience providing clinical mentorship, staff education, and consultation to enhance service delivery and promote best practices. Demonstrated ability to contribute to program development, quality improvement initiatives, and the advancement of evidence-based mental health and addiction services. Commitment to professional ethics, clinical excellence, and person-centred recovery-oriented care.
Preferred Qualifications:Proficiency with the Microsoft Office 365 Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint, with the ability to prepare professional correspondence, reports, presentations, and meeting materials. Active BLS. Active NVCI or eligible for active status. It's Your Move.
