Psychologist II

Cancer Care Alberta (CCA) provides Supportive Care services through a dedicated team of healthcare professionals focused on improving the quality of life for individuals affected by cancer. Support is offered from the time of diagnosis, throughout treatment, and beyond. The CCA team leads in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and palliative care, all based on world-class research. The Psychosocial Oncology Counselling team at the Cross Cancer Institute/Edmonton General Continuing Care satellite location is seeking a compassionate Psychologist II to join the team in a permanent role. This position provides an exciting opportunity to work on a vibrant, supportive multi-disciplinary team comprised of psychologists, social workers, spiritual health practitioners, sexual health consultants and specialty patient navigators to grow your own Psychosocial oncology skill set through education and mentorship. The team is passionate about engaging with patients and their loved ones who are struggling to cope and integrate their cancer experience into their lives. Meeting the psychosocial needs of oncology patients and their loved ones can be meaningful and fulfilling work. Specific duties also include providing advanced and specialized clinical psychological services pertinent to adult outpatient oncology population including screening, assessment, and psychological intervention. Make clinical decisions to support the general assessment and treatment of complex, multi-dimensional healthcare needs of patients and families experiencing cancer. Develop psychological treatment programs for patients and families who have experienced or are experiencing cancer, including but not restricted to individual, group, and family treatment. The caseload and hours for position subject to change based on operational needs.

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.

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. . A combination of equivalent education and experience may also be considered. Active or eligible for registration with the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP). Applications from Provisional Psychologists may be considered.

Minimum 2 years’ experience providing clinical psychological services. Experience working with patients and support persons diagnosed with cancer. Experience providing interventions in individual, couples/family, and group modalities. Experience providing virtual care.

Minimum 6 months’ experience providing clinical psychological services in an urban adult oncology setting. Experience providing trauma intervention and/or palliative care-directed interventions. Experience conducting research in a clinical health setting. Experience providing clinical supervision to advanced level trainees.