Psychologist/Senior Psychologist (Choa Chu Kang)

Job Purpose:

The psychologist is expected to provide a full range of evidence-based and best practices in psychological services to students including conduct psychological assessments, deliver interventions and manage crisis situations. You are also function as a member of the allied professional team to collaborate with stakeholders, maintain professional and ethical standards, undertake research and continuous improvement and uplift professional practice of psychology in education.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Psychological Assessment for (i) school admission, (ii) programme placement, (iii) identification of socio-emotional and behavioural needs, (iv) progress monitoring, (v) mental capacity for assisted deputyship application programme.
. Conduct vocational profiling and facilitate the combination of report meeting
. Conduct admission screening to ensure fitted school placement
. Select and administer screening and assessment tools (e.g. BASC, mood disorder checklist)
. Select and administer standardised psychological assessment for mental capacity assessment
. Prepare assessment resources and protocol for mental capacity assessments so as to contextualise to the needs of the student
. Prepare assessment report including scoring and interpretation
. Make recommendation and conclusion based on assessment results
. Guide junior psychologist in psychological assessments including selection, test administration, and report writing
2. Provide Psychological Interventions for students referred for socio-emotional and behavioural needs.
. Conduct individual intervention
. Conduct group intervention
. Guide junior psychologist in case conceptualisation, treatment planning and progress monitoring
. Lead in the design and crafting of group intervention
3. Manage Crisis
. Recognise signs and symptoms of distress
. Provide crisis intervention
. Administer suicide risk assessment
. Make recommendation for follow-up actions after the crisis
. Guide junior psychologist in crisis intervention including recognising signs and symptoms of distress, soft-skills to de-escalate students in distress, and conduct risk assessment
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. Conduct psychological debriefing session after the crisis
4. Provide training to stakeholders
. Conduct training for stakeholders (e.g. employer education, staff induction)
. Conduct specialised training (e.g. CARE Kit training, Understanding self-harm behaviour)
. Lead in the design and customisation of training to meet needs of stakeholders
. Collect and collate of data to measure training effectiveness
. Evaluate and review effectiveness of training design to ensure overall training objectives are met
5. Perform Clinical Supervision
. Provide guidance to junior staff on assessment, case intervention so as to adhere to both organisational and psychological guidelines
6. Leadership
. Provide thought leadership in the design of the various portfolios in psychology discipline
. Provide ongoing guidance to junior psychologist or intern in their key responsibilities and functions
7. Administrative duties
. Digitization of reports
. Documentation of clinical duties
. Assist in preparing and submitting Key Review Area (KRA) and targets to AP Manager
. Carry out other administrative duties assigned by AP Manager

Job Requirements:

• Possess a Masters in Applied Psychology/ Clinical Psychology from an accredited university and be registered/eligible for registration with SRP or an equivalent professional body.
• Possess a minimum of 5 years of work related experience with relevant exposure in the area of intellectual disability or other related disabilities.
• Expertise and familiarity in conducting and interpreting psychological assessment
• Proficient in a range of evidence-based therapeutic interventions
• Skilled in crisis intervention and management
• Ability to provide training to stakeholders
• Dedicated to ongoing professional development through clinical supervision
• Provide leadership in assigned initiatives
• Ability to work collaboratively with other allied professionals in the department and with teachers and caregivers
• Candidate with Masters in Applied Psychology/ Clinical Psychology without the required minimum years of work related experience will be considered for the position of Psychologist
• Working Location: Choa Chu Kang