Psychologist PhD, Health Psychology Service (1.0 FTE, 1-year contract

Dedicated exclusively to children and their families, The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) is one of the largest and most respected paediatric healthcare centres in the world. As innovators in child health, we lead and partner to improve the health of children through the integration of healthcare, leading-edge research and education. Our reputation would not have been built - nor could it be maintained - without the skills, knowledge and experience of the extraordinary people who come to work here every day.

Sick Kids is committed to ongoing learning and development, and features a caring and supportive work environment that combines exceptionally high standards of practice.

When you join Sick Kids, you become part of our community. We share a commitment and determination to fulfill our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.

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The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) is a leading specialty pediatric hospital and research centre providing innovative, complex care and treatment to children youth and families. Serving diverse patients and families, Sick Kids’ psychologists are members of the Brain and Mental Health Program and are deployed across specialty divisions of the hospital to provide a broad range of clinical consultation, assessment, diagnostic and treatment activities, with the goal of ensuring caregivers, families and patients receive holistic, evidence-informed services.

Sick Kids’ psychologists are committed to enhancing health equity, respectful service and inclusion of all populations served by the hospital.

The Sick Kids Psychology department has recently initiated a general Health Psychology Service (HPS). HPS Health Psychologists assess, diagnose, and treat behavioural and socio-emotional problems in children seen medically across the hospital on an outpatient basis. The role includes a focus on psychological treatments and caregiver coaching that supports adjustment to and coping with new or chronic health conditions and treatment protocols, promote healthy behaviour and treatment compliance, procedural anxiety, and reduce psychological distress related to their medical condition.

HPS psychologists work in collaboration with medical and psychosocial teams across the hospital to enhance patient health and well-being and reduce the burden of care on medical teams in the process.

• Conduct psychological consultations and screenings, as well as comprehensive diagnostic assessments to evaluate a child's psychological and social-emotional functioning in the context of their chronic health challenges.
• Provide assessment feedback and recommendations to patients, families, and interdisciplinary medical providers to support diagnosis, treatment planning, and ongoing care.
• Deliver evidence-based psychological intervention to patients and families, in both individual and group formats, and collaborate with medical teams through consultation on treatment progress and care planning.
• Provide ongoing correspondence updating intervention progress and relevant recommendations to medical teams.
• Collaborate with team members in the Health Psychology Service, as well as other colleagues with relevant expertise, to ensure care is delivered at the cutting edge of pediatric psychology practice.
• Consult and collaborate with medical and other professional staff in medical clinics to enhance the health and well-being of our patients and their families.
• Provide consultation to school teams and other health, community and educational professionals, promoting collaboration and comprehensive support for the child.
• Enhance the medical team’s ability to address the psychosocial needs of the child and their family by complementing and expanding existing services.
• Work independently and collaboratively as a valued member of multiple interdisciplinary teams.
• Participate in clinical research, identify questions and gaps in knowledge for health psychology interventions, contribute to clinic development initiatives, and engage in quality improvement projects.
• Provide supervision and…