Psychologist Ii - Forensic Assessment Outpatient Service Fv Program

Your Opportunity:

Forensic Assessment Outpatient Services (FAOS) provides mandated outpatient assessment and treatment to a client population who have come into conflict with the legal/justice system. The Psychologist II - FAOS has primary clinical responsibility with the FAOS Family Violence Program, providing assessment and treatment to domestic, Intimate partner & family violence offenders. You may also provide assessment & treatment services along the forensic continuum. Areas such as general and violence offenses, sexual violence offenses, cognitive functioning, personality, vocational and behavioral assessment and organicity screening. You will provide treatment in a range of formats & Psychological Therapies such as individual Psychotherapy, group therapy, as well as family and behavioral therapies as appropriate. Further you may provide psychological consultation to members of the interdisciplinary team and to outside professionals and agencies in an appropriate manner. You will prepare reports to the legal system including court reports for the purpose of pre-sentence disposition, risk/recidivism management and/or pre-trial fitness (in consort with Psychiatry). In addition, you will participate in program development and evaluation, staff training and in-service education to community partners/stakeholders, and education/training to other disciplines internal to Recovery Alberta and within the program in a formal and informal manner. You will demonstrate a commitment to collaborative practice; respect for diversity using a supportive, non-judgmental approach; solid communication skills and the ability to work in a flexible interdisciplinary setting, utilizing, critical thinking, conflict resolution, problem solving and leadership skills.

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.