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At Region Dalarna, you will find a meaningful job where you can make a difference. Together, we work for a sustainable Dalarna with development power in all parts of the county.

Do you want to make a difference for children and adolescents with mental health issues? We are now looking for a social worker with basic psychotherapeutic training in CBT, focusing on assessment and treatment, for our child and adolescent psychiatric clinic.

The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUP) Region Dalarna offers specialized care for children and adolescents up to 18 years old with more severe mental health issues and/or neuropsychiatric disabilities. Our area of expertise is broad and includes issues such as trauma, depression, self-harm, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, sleep disorders, and disabilities such as ADHD and autism. We work interdisciplinary to provide the best assessments and care for our children and adolescents. BUP Region Dalarna consists of five outpatient clinics and a regional resource with an emergency team, ward 68 for inpatient care, a family therapy unit, and the eating disorder unit, Tornet, all of which are under a common operations manager.

The BUP clinic in Ludvika is located at Ludvika Hospital. The clinic has pleasant facilities in a calm environment. Here, a warm, cheerful professional team works with nurses, social workers, psychologists, doctors, occupational therapists, medical secretaries, and a manager. The clinic's operations cover the municipalities of Ludvika and Smedjebacken.

Within BUP Region Dalarna, there are opportunities for training and further education. We offer psychotherapy supervision for those working with treatment. As a new social worker, you will be assigned an experienced colleague as a mentor. During your first year, you will undergo a form of introductory training with various components aimed at complementing and deepening your child psychiatric knowledge so that you are ready to meet the demands of the operation. As your knowledge and experience increase, you will gradually take on greater responsibility.

Job Responsibilities

As a social worker, you contribute the psychosocial perspective in healthcare, including psychological, systemic, and social legal perspectives regarding patients and relatives. You are an important team member in the interdisciplinary collaboration where you have particularly good knowledge of societal and social factors that may underlie poor health and child psychiatric symptoms. In your role as a social worker with basic psychotherapeutic training at our BUP clinic, you will work with:

• Mapping, assessment, diagnosis, and conversation treatment of children and adolescents.
• Individual CBT treatment for children and adolescents with various forms of mental health issues, often in combination with neuropsychiatric conditions.
• Supportive conversations and suicide prevention.
• Parental support and family interventions.
• Group treatments, such as anxiety and depression groups.
• Follow-up and evaluation of treatment efforts.

The work also often includes contact and collaboration with healthcare neighbors, schools, and social services. You actively collaborate with the team at the clinic to receive support in patient work.

Additional Information

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Degree in social work
• Licensed healthcare social worker
• Basic psychotherapeutic training, CBT

Meritorious:

• Licensed psychotherapist, CBT
• Experience in child and adolescent psychiatric work

Personal qualities:

To succeed in this role, you need to be secure, have good collaboration skills, be structured yet flexible, and able to adapt treatment methods to individual needs. You meet children and families where they are and instill trust. You enjoy challenges and taking responsibility in treatments and patient matters. You want to help create a good work environment and contribute ideas for operational development. We also appreciate your interest in the development and quality assurance of treatment efforts aimed at the target group. Personal suitability is of great importance.

Application

This position requires you to have a valid license for the relevant profession. Your professional license will be checked against the National Board of Health and Welfare's register of licensed healthcare professionals (HOSP) before any job offer is made. Read more here: The register of licensed healthcare professionals (HOSP) - National Board of Health and Welfare (https://www.socialstyrelsen.se/statistik-och-data/register/halso-och-sjukvardspersonal/).

This work involves direct and regular contact with children and/or adolescents. Before a job offer can be made, you as a candidate must present an extract from the Police's criminal record in a sealed envelope or via a digital record extract, according to laws 2013:852 or 2000:873. More information can be found here: Criminal record - request extract (polisen.se) (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/).

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If you are or have previously been employed by Region (County Council) Dalarna, we will take internal references from your current or previous manager if you are considered for employment.

Read more about Region Dalarna, our values, work environment, and benefits, as well as the checks that are made before employment: Work with us - Region Dalarna (https://www.regiondalarna.se/jobb)

We have made our selection process and therefore do not wish to be contacted by other sales companies or recruitment agencies.

Union Contact Information

Union - Region Dalarna (https://www.regiondalarna.se/jobb-och-utbildning/jobba-med-oss/fackforbund/)