Psychologist

• Provide psychological assessment, clinical counseling and support for patients and families related to their episode of care in order to:

• Help them navigate complex issues affecting their well-being
• Assess readiness for surgery
• Provide coping mechanisms for pain management
• Support adherence to rehabilitation plan
• Promote leading a healthy lifestyle
• Help patients and families deal with diagnoses and treatment plans
• Understand the child or adolescent's functioning profile, needs and functional impacts (cognitive, affective or developmental) on the day of surgery, the rehabilitation process and acceptance of the medical diagnosis.
• Evaluates the psychological support needs of the child or adolescent following the announcement of a medical diagnosis (e.g. orthopedic, metabolic, genetic, etc.).
• Assesses suicidal risk, if necessary
• Participates in interdisciplinary meetings for complex cases, and assesses the psychological contribution to the problems encountered.

• Supports patient and family in understanding child/adolescent functioning and implementing recommendations;
• Offers psychotherapy to help with mental health issues in the context of medical follow-up (e.g. depression, anxiety, grief, adjustment disorder, trauma, etc.);
• Provides motivational psychotherapy during rehabilitation.

• Ensures a common vision among psychology clinicians in providing cohesive, patient and family centered, wrap-around care to all patients at Shriners Hospitals for Children – Canada
• Supports front line staff in crisis management requiring psychology intervention should the situation arise while psychologist is on-site
• Provides timely assessment and short term treatment for patients flagged during anxiety, depression or suicide screening
• Identifies co-occurring mental health needs and refer to appropriate services in the community
• Maintain timely clinical documentation and workload statistics

• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to plan courses of treatment for patients and support in the delivery of mental health care
• Perform team based complex case revisions
• Provides clinical consultation for referral, prioritization of services and/or issues compromising the treatment plan;
• Communicates with external resources involved in the patient's treatment plan.

• Actively participates in interdisciplinary clinical research projects
• Works with university partners to provide supervision and education to pre-doctoral students in the discipline of Psychology

• Works with partners in the community to ensure continuity of care by referring to the appropriate community resources when a patient’s mental health and wellness needs are beyond the scope of Psychology services offered at SHC – Canada

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Psychology or Doctorate of Psychology (D. Psy.) in Clinical Psychology (Required)
• Member in good standing of the Order of Psychologists of Quebec (Required)
• Minimum 2 years of experience as a Pediatric Clinical Psychologist (Preferred)
• Experience with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) patients or knowledge in that disease (Preferred)
• Fluency in French written and spoken; capacity to communicate in English is required in order to support or collaborate with English-speaking clients and/or stakeholders.
• Good ability to relate to others
• Team player and good collaborator
• Excellent organizational skills, initiative, autonomy
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong communication, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Excellent listening and support skills

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