Clinical Psychologist Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA)

A Licensed Clinical Psychologist at SEHA, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company will provide independent psychological assessment and intervention within areas of specialization. The role holder will provide highly specialist one-to-one clinical psychological consultations within areas of specialization.

Key Responsibilities of Clinical Psychologist

• Providing highly specialist one-to-one clinical psychological consultations within areas of specialization.
• Providing Psychological interventions for individuals, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• Coordinating the assessment and formulation of risk management plans for clients within their case load. Contribute to the formulation of risk management plans for other clients within the service.
• Participating in decision making for and evaluating treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• Promoting high quality psychological services to patients and caregivers, via direct clinical work and indirectly by collaboration with other team members.
• Providing psychological services (as an autonomous/independent practitioner) to service-users, caregivers and team colleagues.
• Providing advice to multi-disciplinary teams on the psychological aspects of the needs assessment and care planning process.
• Developing psychosocial formulations for those service-users with the most highly complex problems so as to inform and guide intervention strategies.
• Exercising professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and or referral of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based intervention plans.
• Providing casework for people experiencing severe psychological difficulties.
• To prioritize workload to ensure that skills are used to address the more severe and complex psychological presentations within this area of work.

Quality and Safety

• Promoting and maintaining quality in all services and ensure continuous quality improvement measures are in place.
• Conduct method evaluation/development as per standard policies and procedures.
• Complying with all safety, health and quality control programs and procedures as applicable.
• Complying with applicable precautions for environmental safety, infection control, using a series of interventions that minimize or prevent cross infection.
• Maintaining the strictest confidence in relation to patient information whether formally or informally recorded.
• Practicing within the expressed limits of established policies and procedures.
• Ensuring that SOP (standard operation procedures) and Quality Assurance tests are maintained within all sections.
• Being responsible for documenting all intervention in appropriate format.
• Comply and support clinical audit processes within the service and report on these as agreed.
• Communicating in a professional and courteous manner with patients, family and other medical personnel as necessary to obtain information for laboratory records, explain procedures, clarify orders and communicate status.
• Interacting courteously with doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers when answering questions or providing other information.

Education and Training

• Participating in training and education sessions for department staff, doctors and nurses. Participating in department programs/committees, various hospital committees, and staff meetings.
• Participating in the orientation and training of new employees.
• Ensuring appropriate internal and external sharing of information based on governing policies and procedures.
• Maintaining professional knowledge by attending lectures, seminars or on-line education units.
• Completing and maintaining all regulatory requirements including: licensure and certification and other mandatory training within established time frames.

Role Requirements

Following are the requirements for the role of Licensed Clinical Psychologist at SEHA:

• Bachelor’s degree in the field of psychology and Postgraduate Doctoral degree (example: Ph.D., Psy.D., Ed.D., D. Clin. Psy) from an approved psychology faculty or an educational faculty with focus on psychology.

OR

• Bachelor’s degree in the field of psychology And Postgraduate full-time Master’s degree (includes MSc, MA, M.Phil) of minimum of two years course duration from a psychology faculty or an educational faculty with a focus on psychology, provided that the bachelor’s degree is minimum four  years duration.
• Minimum of two years experience post qualification in a related field.

Other Requirements

• Current National License/ DOH licensed, passed DOH Exam, MOH/ DHA licensed applicants only.
• Bilingual/ Arabic only.

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