Consultant Physician for Our Inpatient Care Unit for Children and Adolescents

Our inpatient care unit for children and adolescents is in need of a consultant physician.

If you are interested in working with knowledgeable colleagues in a team of various professional disciplines to help children and their families overcome a serious illness, this is the position for you!

The Stockholm Center for Eating Disorders (SCÄ) is one of the largest specialist clinics in the world for patients with eating disorders and accepts patients of all ages. We have a well-developed operation with outpatient care, day care, and inpatient care for both adults, children, and adolescents. Today we have over 260 employees, we have expanded significantly during 2024 and will continue to do so in 2025. From March 2025, all three of our inpatient care units will be located at Danderyd Hospital while outpatient care remains at Södermalm in Stockholm.

The inpatient care for children and adolescents has room for 12 families – the patient is usually cared for together with a relative. The treatment period is typically 4-10 weeks. Family work plays a central role in the treatment, where parents are empowered in their parenting role and gain increased knowledge about the eating disorder. Here, you work closely in a team with nurses, nursing assistants, psychiatrists, dietitians, and social workers. The treatment is based on family-based therapy, which is the first choice in the National Guidelines.

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Job Responsibilities:

As a consultant physician in child and adolescent psychiatry with us, you will be offered a varied and stimulating job with good opportunities for development and subspecialization. Routine medical work with somatic and psychiatric assessments and treatment.

A large part of the work is team-based, so we see it as a given that you enjoy working together with others for both the patients' and the organization's best interests.

If you are a person interested in eating disorders and wish to develop in the field, you will thrive with us!

Qualifications:

You are a specialist physician in child and adolescent psychiatry or psychiatry, have good diagnostic skills, and an interest in teaching and mentoring less experienced colleagues. Experience working with patients with eating disorders is an advantage but not a requirement – we have a strong educational organization and many experienced specialists. Knowledge of CBT-E or FBT is advantageous, as well as somatic competence and experience with the Take Care journal system.

Regular continuing education is seen as necessary both to maintain and develop your own competence.

Personal Attributes:

You have excellent collaboration skills and enjoy sharing your knowledge. You have a genuine interest in people, are engaged, responsible, and attentive. You have an interest in development issues and actively contribute to the development of the organization. You contribute to a positive work environment, find it easy to collaborate and communicate. You have a personal drive to work independently. The job responsibilities require independence, a holistic perspective, and a structured approach. We place great emphasis on personal suitability and good collaboration skills.

Employment Type:

Permanent employment. Full-time, 40 hours/week, Monday-Friday, daytime. Part-time may be possible if desired. On-call and standby duties are included in the position.

Education & Learning Opportunities:

To maintain competence, we offer various types of competency-enhancing activities a couple of times a year. We also have Wednesday lectures with current and exciting themes.

Our Benefits:

SLSO creates good conditions for you as an employee to develop and excel in your profession. As an employee, you have benefits such as free healthcare up to the high-cost protection limit, additional compensation during parental leave, pension agreements, and insurance. We also apply flexible working hours, wellness hours, and 5000 SEK in wellness benefits per calendar year.

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Interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis, and the position may be filled during the application period. We welcome your application today! The position is filled on the condition that it is not needed for internal relocation, according to applicable regulations.

For patient-related work within the Stockholm County Healthcare Area:

• background checks are applied before a hiring decision according to current guidelines.
• employees who will have patient contact must undergo a pre-employment health examination, according to current directives, which is conducted through occupational health services before employment.
• in addition to Swedish professional licensure, good knowledge of the Swedish language corresponding to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) is required. The same requirements apply to non-licensed personnel with patient contact.

Stockholm County Healthcare Area (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We offer health and medical care in the Region Stockholm's administration within psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, urgent care, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, as well as assistive devices. In collaboration with Karolinska Institute, we conduct research, education, and development. https://www.slso.regionstockholm.se/ (https://www.slso.regionstockholm.se/)

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