Kinark Child and Family Services has a rich 50-year history serving children and youth through a wide range of evidence-based mental health services that include individual, family, and group counselling. We are on a mission to help children and youth with complex needs achieve better life outcomes with a broader vision of a healthy future for Ontario’s children and youth. We have a passionate team of over 700 staff serving close to 9,000 children and youth each year in our three program streams - Community-based Child and Youth Mental Health, Autism, and Forensic Mental Health.

Our people are the heartbeat of our organization where ‘Holding children, youth, and families at the centre of all that we do’ is only one of the values that guides our work.

In support of our journey towards being an employer of choice in our sectors, our staff is engaged for feedback to identify and support improvements, big and small, to enhance the employee experience.

If you have a passion for making a difference in the lives of children and youth with complex needs and want to be part of the mission we are on…

For more information about Kinark, our values, our strategic priorities, and our service programs, please visit ourwebsite at www.kinark.on.ca .

What we offer:

- Competitive salary, comprehensive health and dental benefits, and other employment perks *
- Flexible work arrangement supporting employee work life balance
- Employer Matching Defined Contribution Pension Plan up to 6% *
- Employee Wellness Program
- Extensive Educational and Training Opportunities and Supports
- Supportive work workplace with regular Supervision and Feedback




- Renowned Accredited Clinical Programs

*Dependent on hours worked, length of service and/or collective agreement (where relevant)

We currently have an opportunity for:

Position Title

Program Lists

Kinark Child & Family Services > Simcoe Program

Location

Barrie, ON L9J 1A7 CA (Primary)

Reg/Temp

Regular

Start Date

November 2, 2026

Temporary End Date

Full/Part Time

Part-Time

Relief

No

Other Employee Classification (if applicable)

Not Applicable

Total # of hours per week

17.5

$50.41 - $59.54

# of Positions

1

Close Date

October 15, 2026

Job Description

Reporting to the Clinical Lead, Community Mental Health, the Psychologist will be responsible for providing both Remote and In-Person services. These services will include periodic in-person psychological assessments, virtual/in-person evidence-based treatment delivery, virtual/in-person training as part of a multidisciplinary clinical team and may also include virtual/in-person consultation toother Kinark areaprogramsand teams.

Duties & Responsibilities:

- Psychological Assessment: Evaluate intellectual, social, emotional, behavior, academic, personality, and daily living functioning for the purpose of diagnostic and treatment planning.



This includes ongoing learning to maintain professional standards and current knowledge (for example: research, diagnostic tools, etc.). Key responsibilities include: Administration of psychological tests and questionnaires, clinical interviewing, data analysis and interpretation, report writing, feedback and communicate diagnosis.
- Consultation: Provide consultation for complex cases, treatment planning and service delivery, ethical issues, etc. in internal and/or external clinical and multidisciplinary meetings. This also includes decisions around suitability for services and tailoring treatment plans to meet client’s unique needs and troubleshooting clinical issues that arise. Complete a file review in prep for consultation and subsequent documentation.
- Treatment: Deliver evidence-based treatment for complex clients (individual, group and family), formulation and goal setting, documentation, progress monitoring, and discharge planning. This also includes professional development, workshops, independent reading, attending specific treatment team meetings (e.g., DBT team meetings), and peer consultation.
- Training/Education: Provide in-service presentations to support capacity building on a variety of topics. Provide external presentations as requested by community partners. For some, provide regular clinical supervision and training to PhD level psychology graduate students doing practicum placements at Kinark.
- Administration: Attending agency meetings/trainings, internal communication, scheduling client and community appointments, manage psychological

📌 Psychologist (Canada)
🏢 Kinark Child and Family Services
📍 Canada