Flourishing Minds Clinic Is Recruiting On Urgent Basis For The Following Position In Qatar عيادة عيادة العقول المزدهرة تبحث عن موظفين على وجه السرعة للوظيفة التالية في قطر

Child and Adolescent Psychologist is responsible for providing specialist psychological assessments and interventions for children and adolescents and their families. You will be responsible for evaluating complex psychological data and formulating a formal psychological treatment plan for the patients. Also responsible for providing specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals.

This position is within an outpatient clinic setting and would be involved in intensive outpatient services as well serves children, adolescent, and families presenting with a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties including anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicidality, ADHD, behavioral concerns, and trauma. There may be opportunities to work in additional clinical, training, and/or research settings within CAMHS based on skillset and program needs.

You must be currently licensed in your Country of Origin as a Psychologist to be eligible for Licensing in Qatar. You should have had 5+ years’ experience as a practicing Clinical Psychologist, including 2+ working with children and adolescents. Fluency in English is mandatory. Fluency in Written and Spoken Arabic is highly preferred.

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 and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with children, adolescents, 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.

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 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.

Supervise, teach, and mentor mental health trainees

Engage in research, scholarship, and/or quality improvement projects

Serve on committees, task forces, and/or workgroups

Education

Doctorate (PhD, PsyD, DClinPsy) in clinical psychology (specializing in child / young adult psychology) or Masters in clinical psychology (specializing in child / young adult psychology)

Experience

5+ years’ experience as a practicing clinical psychologist, including 2+ year should be in the area of child / young adult psychology

Current License in country of origin as a Psychologist

Eligible for license in State of Qatar