Child Health Care Psychology Unit, Värnamo

Ready for new challenges where you can influence the mental health of children and families from the start? At the Child Health Care Psychology Unit, you step into a developing role where you work preventively with expectant parents and families with young children. Here, you will grow professionally in a competent team and contribute to creating good conditions for life ahead.

The Role of Psychologist and PTP Psychologist

We are now looking for two new colleagues, a psychologist and a PTP psychologist, for the Child Health Care in Värnamo.

As a psychologist with us, you will work in a care chain from pregnancy to transition to school health care. You will have the opportunity to work with both children and adults. Most interventions involve support in various ways in parenting, both individually and in groups. This can involve everything from supporting parents in addressing and managing various development-related behaviors in their children to childbirth anxiety and postpartum depression. Interventions to promote interaction and attachment are also part of the assignment.

You will work with assessment and investigation of children at a basic level in preschool age and provide consultation to child health care nurses and midwives. In addition to close collaboration with child health care nurses, you will also collaborate with other professionals at family centers in the area. Regarding the individual child/family, you will also collaborate with, for example, preschools and social services as needed.

You will be offered a permanent full-time position with a start date according to agreement.

As a PTP psychologist with us, you will design your service plan together with your supervisor. The Child Health Care offers a wide range of tasks and development issues, creating a good setup for your year as a PTP psychologist. Previous PTP psychologists have conducted parent groups based on the theme of emotionally strong children, which has been experienced as a developing element in the PTP service. Opportunities to supervise, lecture, or include educational elements for our nurses are also popular parts of the other psychological work. The sense of participation and meaningfulness is reflected positively in our employee survey, which shows very good results year after year.

You will be offered a fixed-term full-time position with a start date according to agreement.

Your Future Workplace

Region Jönköping County strives to be the best place for children to grow up, and one step in this is to shape the future child health care. The Child Health Care in Region Jönköping County is its own county-wide operation, where all the county's parent and child health care psychologists are gathered under a common psychology unit with a licensed psychologist as the head. There are often PTP psychologists in the operation as we strive to offer future psychologists an arena to start their professional development in a safe context.

The positions will be based at the child health care in Värnamo, where there is already a licensed colleague.

Your Profile

The positions require one of the following:

• Licensed psychologist with an interest in parenting and developmental psychology to be considered for the psychologist position
• Completed psychology degree to be considered for the PTP psychologist position.

We see ourselves as a flexible organization and are happy to discuss new ideas, proposals, and opportunities. We are looking for someone who enjoys and is good at working independently in your profession but also has an easy time collaborating and cooperating with others.

To thrive with us, your heart beats a little extra for the youngest children and for promoting health and preventing illness later in their lives. You have good knowledge of, or are curious to learn more about, the development of young children and basic child assessments. You also have an interest in providing support and treatment to adults at the primary level.

As a person, you are empathetic, secure, and stable but flexible in thought. You professionally adapt to each situation. You take responsibility for your task and have an easy time organizing and structuring your work effectively. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability and the ability to collaborate.

Our Offer to You

Our greatest strength is a stable and experienced team of psychologist colleagues! Our psychology unit possesses high competence and great commitment, and we can offer you:

• Individualized introduction program and assigned mentor
• A varied and developing job
• Regular meetings with colleagues in the county
• Continuous professional development
• Great opportunities to engage in various development work within the area
• Supervision, both collegial and via external supervisor
• Opportunity to work digitally via video visits

As an employee with us in Region Jönköping County, you will have access to our employment benefits. Some of them increase your basic security, while others add a little extra to your everyday life. Read more about our benefits here: Benefits, Region Jönköping County (http://www.rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Jobba-hos-oss/Formaner/)

Do You Have Questions About the Position?

More information about the position can be provided by the unit manager for the child health care psychology unit, Nina Bengtsson, phone 010-242 59 34 or [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

We welcome calls from those interested in the job but decline calls from those selling ads and recruitment services.

Our Recruitment Process

The last application date is 2026-01-07, but selection and interviews may take place continuously. Welcome with your application!

Before employment, the employer will request that you show an extract from the police criminal record. A result in this register may affect your opportunity for employment.

Read more about Region Jönköping County's recruitment process on our website: Our recruitment process, Region Jönköping County (https://rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Lediga-jobb/Var-rekryteringsprocess/)