Clinical Psychologist (Sakina)

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SEHA in Abu Dhabi is seeking a full-time onsite Clinical Psychologist (Sakina) to provide independent psychological assessment and intervention within areas of specialization. The role requires coverage across service areas, collaboration with senior clinical psychologists, and delivery of highly specialist one-to-one consultations plus individual, family and group interventions with robust risk assessment and management planning. You will contribute to treatment decisions, develop psychosocial formulations for complex cases, support multidisciplinary teams, and uphold quality, safety and confidentiality through documentation, audits and SOP compliance. Requirements include a Master’s in clinical psychology and a current national license; tailor your application to demonstrate complex case work, risk management, tangible outcomes, UAE licensure and on-site readiness.

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Provide independent psychological assessment and intervention within areas of specialization

 

Key Responsibilities of the role Key Responsibilities of the role Corresponding Key Activities performed by the role Managerial

Ensuring and participating in providing coverage to the various service areas or populations and settings

 

Collaborating with senior clinical psychologists in the provision of consultative services internally and externally

 

Technical

 

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 and 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 carers, via direct clinical work and indirectly by collaboration with other team members

 

Providing psychological services (as an autonomous/independent practitioner) to service-users, carers 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 & 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

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

 

SEHA Compliance guidelines Corresponding Activities performed by the role Complying with Policies, Procedures and Practices of the SEHA facilities and other regulatory requirements

Complying consistently with facility policies, procedures and practices and ensuring alignment with SEHA facilities policies

 

Completing and maintaining regulatory requirements including: licensure and certification and other mandatory training within established time frames

Maintaining Confidentiality Maintaining confidentiality with regards to any information exchanged or received in the current capacity of role in accordance with facility policy

Required:

a. Masters degree in clinical psychology 

b. Current National License