Your Opportunity:
Child Development Services (CDS) invites psychologists to join our specialized tertiary-level service providing comprehensive assessment and diagnostic consultation for children and adolescents with complex developmental presentations. Approximately 75% of this role will focus on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) assessment, with 25% focused on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) assessment and consultation. In this role, you will independently conduct comprehensive assessments for autism and FASD, integrating standardized cognitive, adaptive, social, behavioural, and academic measures; clinical observation; developmental history; and parent/caregiver interviews. You will use strong clinical judgment to consider complex presentations, differential diagnoses, and the impact of developmental, medical, social, and environmental factors in reaching thoughtful and accurate diagnostic conclusions. You will work within a collaborative interdisciplinary team that includes pediatricians, occupational and speech therapists, social workers, nurses, psychometrists, and education consultants. Together, you will translate assessment findings into practical, individualized recommendations for children, families, schools, and community providers. We are seeking psychologists with strong expertise in autism assessment and an interest or experience in FASD assessment, who are confident working with diagnostic complexity and families navigating challenging care pathways. A trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and family-centred approach is essential. Opportunities include consultation, program development, quality improvement, and mentorship of learners. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a tertiary pediatric setting while helping shape specialized ASD and FASD diagnostic services.
Description:
As a Psychologist II, you will provide advanced clinical services (including psychological assessment, diagnosis and/or intervention), consultation and education to the interprofessional team and patients/families, and/or provides clinical leadership and coordination in an assigned program area. This is an advanced level psychology position that will allow you to work with or within teams to provide and inform services for patients with complex and multi-dimensional medical, psychological, interpersonal, environmental and/or instrumental needs. You will consult, collaborate, and enact initiatives to ensure that practices are evidence based and in alignment with psychology standards of practice and code of ethics, as well as policy, legislation and regulations. You will be expected to lead, facilitate and/or participate in program, policy, and procedure development, service planning, staff development, quality improvement and evaluation, and/or research activities as identified by the needs of the service area(s). You may provide supervision to doctoral level psychology residents, master's level interns, provisional psychologists, psychometrists and other team members.
- Classification: Psychologist II
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Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
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Unit and Program: Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
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Primary Location: Child Development Centre
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Location Details: As Per Location
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Multi-Site: Not Applicable
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FTE: 0.80
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Posting End Date: 28-AUG-2026
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Employee Class: Regular Part Time
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Date Available: 05-OCT-2026
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Hours per Shift: 7.75
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Length of Shift in weeks: 2
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Shifts per cycle: 8
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Shift Pattern: Days
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Days Off: As Per Rotation
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Minimum Salary: $60.69
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Maximum Salary: $80.59
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Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Completion of doctoral degree in Psychology in an applied area relevant to the practice setting from a Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) or American Psychological Association (APA) program. . A combination of equivalent education and experience may also be considered. Active or eligible for registration with the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP). Applications from Provisional Psychologists may be considered.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Doctoral degree in professional psychology, including CPA-accredited internship/residency. Training in assessment of pediatric (preschool and school-aged) populations with diverse neurodevelopmental, medical, and psychological presentations. Competence administering and interpreting standardized measures of intelligence, academics, memory, executive functioning, and attention. Expertise in ASD diagnostics (e.g., ADOS-2, diagnostic interviewing), with ability to independently assess and diagnose autism, including ADOS/ADOS-2 research reliability. Demonstrated ability to integrate complex developmental, cognitive, behavioural, medical, and psychosocial information in differential diagnosis, including FASD and other complex neurodevelopmental presentations. Collaborative team member with strong interpersonal, communication, conflict resolution, and problem-solving skills. Experience contributing to organizational change, workflow design, goal setting, performance monitoring, and mentoring. Committed to psychological safety, inclusivity, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, reflective, family-centred, and neurodiversity-affirming practice. Active registration with College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP).
Preferred Qualifications:
Minimum five years of relevant clinical experience, including multidisciplinary collaboration. Completion of all degree requirements, including dissertation. Expertise in assessment and differential diagnosis of developmentally complex children with medical, neurodevelopmental, behavioural, academic, and psychosocial challenges. Experience with FASD assessment and/or care, and familiarity with FASD-informed diagnostic frameworks.
