Psychologist - CAMHS (Master’s)
Sidra Medicine
- Qatar
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Evaluates the seriousness of issues and makes decisions regarding the most effective and suitable treatment options.
- Consistent with one's training, scope, and clinical skill/knowledge, provides specialist psychological assessments and diagnosis for patients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
- Provides clinical formulations and comprehensive written reports regarding assessments completed or tests administered.
- Provides specialized clinical psychological input to the families, including assessment results and proposed psychological interventions for psychological, behavioral and learning challenges.
- Formulates and implements plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a child's psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
- Implements a range of psychological interventions, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
- Provides after-hours on-call coverage on a rotation basis with other clinicians in the Department.
- Reviews relevant school and/or other medical records to understand cases better.
- Provides specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patient's formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and provides general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
- Keeps abreast with current literature, talks with colleagues, and participates in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in clinical psychology, counselling, developmental psychology, serious mental illness/severe emotional disturbance, and/or neuropsychology.
- Provides group therapy for children and families, in both inpatient and outpatient settings as needed. Makes sure that patient participation and input is integrated with the overall treatment plan.
- Maintains confidentiality with regards to information exchanged or received in the current capacity of role in accordance with departmental guidelines.
- Provides psychological services (e.g., assessment, intervention, consultation) with cultural competence appropriate to a wide variety of ethnic, linguistic, and religious populations.
- Provides clinical supervision, based on scope and experience, to improve clinical skills and professional development of students, trainees, and early career colleagues.
- Engages in peer consultation and multidisciplinary meetings in order to improve clinical care and to maintain ongoing professional standards.
- Adheres to Sidra's standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies
- Adheres to and promotes Sidra's Values
- Demonstrated experience in theoretical psychological techniques and expertise in providing consultations
- Demonstrated experience in diagnosing and providing consultation to child/ young adult patients.
- Critical analysis and problem-solving skill
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to work collaboratively through consultation with other health care team
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
- Fluency in written and spoken English