CHEO
Psychologist, Outpatient Mental Health Services, Mental Health – Temporary Full-Time (1.0) (until September 2026)
Ottawa, ON · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$64k-$80kDetected 6 days ago
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About the role
- The Psychologist will work with individuals and families, providing psychological assessments, interventions and consultative services within the CAPA (Choice and Partnership Approach) framework to care.
- CAPA is a service transformation model that combines collaborative and participatory practice with service users to enhance effectiveness, leadership, skills modelling and demand and capacity management.
- The Psychologist will work with children and youth up to 18 years old and their families, providing assessment and evidence based individual, family and group psychotherapy and interventions.
Responsibilities
- Participates in and supports clinical research activities with the inter-professional team members.
Requirements
- Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from a CPA or APA accredited clinical psychology program (Essential)
- Experience in Group Facilitation (Essential)
- Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team (Essential)
- Bilingualism (French/English) will be validated by a language proficiency assessment conducted by a third party provider.
- Candidates will be required to meet the minimum linguistic profile prior to the date of hire.
- Consistent with that commitment, all applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be considered for any staff or volunteer opportunities.
- Vulnerable Sector Check (Level 3) (Essential)
- Registration as a Psychologist in Ontario or eligibility for registration (Essential)
- Designated practice as a Psychologist in the area of Clinical Psychology with children and adolescents (Essential)
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge in the assessment of children and adolescents presenting with severe and complex mental health problems (Essential)
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge in different individual psychotherapeutic modalities (e.g. CBT, DBT, TF-CBT, etc.) (Essential)
- Demonstrated experience running parenting groups (Essential)
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge in family therapy (Essential)
- Experience in a pediatric medical setting (Essential)
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals (Essential)
- Bilingual - Fluency in both French and English (Preferred)
Nice to have
- Fournir une évaluation psychologique complète en mettant l'accent sur la formulation du diagnostic ainsi que sur les interventions à court terme
- Fournir des services d'évaluation des risques et d'intervention en cas de crise à court terme dans le cadre du processus d'intervention rapide
- Animer les groupes de soutien aux parents
- Fournir un traitement psychologique en utilisant différentes approches
- Communiquer avec des psychologues communautaires et d'autres professionnels des soins de santé
- Assurer la supervision et la formation des stagiaires pré doctoraux en psychologie et offrir des occasions d'apprentissage à des étudiants en formation provenant d'autres disciplines
- Travailler selon l'ACP
- Participer à des réunions d'équipe interdisciplinaires
Skills
- Work within CAPA framework
Compensation
- Every year CHEO helps more than 500,000 children and youth from Eastern Ontario, western Quebec, Nunavut and Northern Ontario.
Benefits
- Within its own walls and through partnerships with community providers, CHEO has transformed from a 20th century acute care hospital into a 21st century integrated child and youth health system.
- CHEO's Research Institute is dedicated to world-class clinical, translational, and basic science research covering a wide range of children's health concerns.
- CHEO has been named Canada's best health-care employer by Forbes in 2024 and 2025 and is ranked second among Canadian hospitals on its list of Canada's Best Employers for multiple consecutive years.
This listing is sourced directly from CHEO's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.