Child Psychologist; Assessments & Therapy

Position: Child Psychologist (Assessments & Therapy)
Young Sprouts Therapy is a child, teen, and family practice in Thornhill serving Vaughan and York Region. Our team includes registered social workers, psychotherapists, and a pediatric occupational therapist, and families regularly ask us for assessments we cannot yet provide in-house.

That is the gap this role fills. Rather than joining an assessment assembly line, you would be the clinician who decides how this service runs: which tests we use, what our reports look like, how long a file should reasonably take, and what we will and will not take on. We would rather do fewer assessments well than promise turnaround times that produce thin reports.

The role suits a psychologist who wants clinical autonomy without the overhead of running a private practice. No lease, no bookkeeping, no chasing intake calls, and no marketing spend of your own.

What you would be doing

Conduct psycho educational, ADHD, autism, gifted, and learning disability assessments for children and adolescents, including intake, testing, scoring, and interpretation.

Choose the right combination of tests for each referral question rather than working from a fixed template.

Write clear, parent-readable reports with recommendations schools can actually implement, including language that supports IEP and IPRC discussions.

Deliver feedback sessions that leave families understanding their child, not just their child's scores.

Carry a therapy caseload with children and teens. Anxiety, ADHD, emotional regulation, behavioural challenges, and school refusal are our most common referrals.

Consult with our social workers, psychotherapists, and occupational therapist on shared clients, and act as the clinical voice on assessment questions.

Liaise with schools, physicians, and other providers where families have consented to it.

Help shape the assessment service as it grows: intake criteria, waitlist policy, fee structure, and which services we add next.

Qualifications and requirements

Registered in good standing with the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario as a Psychologist (C.Psych.) or Psychological Associate (C.Psych.Assoc.). Candidates in supervised practice are welcome to apply; tell us your supervision arrangement.

Declared competence in clinical, school, or clinical child psychology with the child and adolescent population.

Demonstrated experience administering, scoring, and interpreting the standard child measures, for example the WISC-V, WPPSI-IV, WIAT-4, BASC-3, Conners-4, and ADOS-2.

Strong assessment report writing, with a track record of recommendations that hold up in a school meeting.

Comfortable delivering hard news to parents with warmth and clarity.

Current professional liability insurance and a clear Vulnerable Sector Check.

Able to work in person at our Thornhill office for testing sessions. Therapy and feedback sessions can be virtual.

Familiar with PHIPA obligations and comfortable working in an EMR. We use Jane.

Considered an asset

Experience with the Ontario Autism Program, school board assessment work, or IPRC processes.

Fluency in a language other than English. Russian, Hebrew, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, Italian, and Punjabi all come up among the families we see in Thornhill and Vaughan, and any additional language is genuinely useful here.

Supervision experience, or interest in supervising provisional members as the team grows.

Comfort with neurodiversity-affirming assessment practice.

What the clinic provides

A steady referral stream, so your calendar fills without you having to chase it.

Intake, scheduling, billing, insurance receipts, and follow-up handled by our admin team.

A furnished room for testing at 1137 Centre Street, Thornhill, with free on-site parking.

Core test kits owned by the clinic and…