Clinical Psychologist

The Mental Health department provides services to children, adolescents, adults and elderly persons. Services include 24-hour emergency care and crisis intervention, in-patient and out-patient care, consultation and liaison services, forensic services, community outreach, public education, and research. Within the eight-bed in-patient, psychiatric nurses and an occupational therapist provide specialized medical treatment for acutely disturbed patients. The day care facility provides a supportive learning environment, clinical assistance and social support for patients having on-going difficulties with community adjustment and interpersonal relations. The day care programme offers continuing treatment from Monday to Friday, while maintaining the patient in the community.

Responsibilities: The successful candidate provides professional psychological services including consultations, individual therapy for patients with emotional and behavioural challenges, assessments, testing, diagnosis, treatment to the general population. The candidate also consult/coordinates care with other service providers to enhance treatment outcome for patients. Provides awareness about psychology and mental health issues via written materials (e.g., pamphlets, articles), meetings with interested parties such as lectures/interviews. The successful candidate provides supervision to psychology master’s level students and Psychologists working with adolescents. Participate in (or conduct) research and program evaluation to understand and enhance services.

Qualification & Experience: The successful candidate must have a Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. The candidate should possess three (3) years’ experience working in the related field. The candidate must have both theoretical and practical experience in the population of psychotherapeutic interventions. A working knowledge of administration and interpretation of psychological testing, test construction and statistical analysis are essential. The candidate must also hold a valid license from either of the seven (7) jurisdictions; Jamaica, Canada, USA, United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia as specified in the Health Practice Law, Cayman Islands. The ability to work well within a multidisciplinary team is essential.