Clinical Psychologist @ Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan

Job Summary

Job Summary

Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan (AKHS, P), runs one of the largest not-for-profit private healthcare systems in the country, with a focus on the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh. Its core focus includes initiatives for hard-to-reach populations through services like outreach clinics, training of community midwives to provide low-cost health services in remote areas, screening for non-communicable diseases, and digital health solutions.

Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan, is looking for a competent Clinical Psychologist for Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan – Lower Chitral
Roles and Responsibilities:
 

• Conduct regular consulting in-person clinics and teleconsultations.
• Gather and maintain patient information and records through a mobile application and HMIS, including social and medical history obtained from patients, relatives, and other professionals.
• Conduct psychometric testing for diagnosing mental health-related problems.
• Conduct psychotherapeutic intervention for mental disorders and emotional, behavioral and relationship issues for individuals, families, and groups.
• Design individualized care plans, using a variety of treatments.
• Provide psychological support services, assess, and help patients with psychological problems of all types and levels of severity, including:
  1. anxiety, including adjustment disorders, generalized anxiety states, phobias, and panic attacks.
  2. depression, ranging from adjustment disorders to severe clinical depression.
  3. problems with personal relationships, including communication with health and social care    professionals
  4. Psychosexual difficulties (such as erectile dysfunction and loss of libido)
  5. alcohol and drug-related problems
  6. personality disorder
  7. deliberate self-harm.
  8. psychotic illness
  9. organic brain syndromes
• Consultation, supervision, and staff support
• Training and Development of community-based health care providers on early identification and referrals.
• Research activities (if and when required)

Required Skills

Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum BSC Hons/MSc with PGD in Clinical psychology preferred.
• Minimum 6 Months of experience.
• Should have an aptitude for working in a multidisciplinary team.
• Team working skills.
• Problem-solving skills
• Good time management
• Good communication and team-building skills.
  
  AKHS is committed to reducing our impact on the climate and the environment and has set itself the goal of striving for net-zero carbon operations by 2030. All staff are expected to take part in making this a reality. The Clinical Psychologist is expected to identify and understand which aspects of his/her work have the most impact on the environment, and define tasks, work, and personal goals within his/her work plan to reduce these impacts and bring AKHS closer to net zero.
  Interested candidates meeting the criteria can apply by August 03, 2025