habilitation in Tierp Älvkarleby

Our 1800 employees work with close care and health in Uppsala County. We have a wide range of services in primary care. Our patients meet us at Region Uppsala's own health centers or within habilitation, and we provide advice by phone via 1177. Education, research, and development are important to us as we adapt our services based on the needs of the residents.

Are you a psychologist who wants to help create opportunities?

We are looking for you who are a psychologist and want to develop our work together with us. With us, you will have a job that is both varied and stimulating. We offer a permanent full-time position starting by agreement. If you live in Uppsala, you have the opportunity to travel to Tierp during working hours. Our goal is a cohesive habilitation for equitable and patient-safe care with good quality. This means that parts of the working hours may be allocated to one of the habilitation's units in Uppsala. A probationary period may be applied.

We have comfortable working hours with free weekends and public holidays, including flexible working hours. Region Uppsala and Close care and health invest in secure employment and have benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/ (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/)).

With us, you will:

• work with an exciting and dynamic target group
• have great opportunities for further education
• learn from and develop together with other professionals in the team
• organize your work processes and plan your workday independently
• have your own mentor during the first year of employment
• work in an environment characterized by development and quality with its own quality organization
• work in a place where your skills are utilized, not only in patient work but also in collaboration with team colleagues and through internal training
• work in a place where it is easy to combine work with private and family life

Your mission

As a psychologist with us, you play an important role in the team-based treatment and investigation work. You will meet both children and adults and their networks. The interventions are provided individually and in groups to patients, relatives, and staff. The tasks include investigations that examine whether the patient has intellectual disabilities, autism, and ADHD. You will also carry out interventions aimed at homes and networks in the case of challenging behaviors, early interventions for autism, and psychoeducational interventions.

In your work, you will get to work with a diverse and exciting patient group and a wide range of tasks where the focus is on a network-based approach. You will work independently but also in close collaboration with your colleagues.

Your competence

You who are applying are a licensed psychologist. It is meritorious if you have experience in investigations and knowledge of extensive and lasting disabilities. We also see it as meritorious if you have experience and a good ability to collaborate and convey knowledge about the consequences that the disability brings to the individual, family, and other networks. As a psychologist with us, you contribute knowledge and commitment that makes people feel safe.

You always put the patient in focus and are responsible in your work. As a colleague, you are engaged and contribute to a positive work environment. Great importance is placed on your ability to work independently and in a structured manner. You have a good ability to collaborate and are motivated to develop the business. You find it easy to express yourself in speech and writing. Since we work in the patients' everyday environments, a B driver's license is required. Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.

Our operations

The habilitation in Uppsala County belongs to the management Close care and health in Region Uppsala and has for many years been a leading habilitation. We are a specialized operation that meets children, adolescents, and adult patients with various forms of congenital movement disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and intellectual disabilities. We work to create conditions for independence and an active life through developing, supportive, and compensatory interventions. Our interdisciplinary units are located in Enköping, Tierp, Uppsala, and Östhammar. The unit in Tierp serves both children, adolescents, and adults and all disability groups. The unit has Tierp Municipality and Älvkarleby Municipality as its catchment area.

The operation is characterized by development and an evidence-based approach, and you will have a stimulating and varied job. Competence development and experience exchange take place continuously within the habilitation's own operations. Each profession also has regular meetings to ensure equal competence within the county's various units. Within the management, there is a research and development department, aimed at stimulating and supporting development work.

The unit in Tierp serves both children, adolescents, and adults and all of habilitation's target groups. We consist of 14 employees with the professions of social worker/counselor, physiotherapist, psychologist, speech therapist, occupational therapist, special educator, administrator, and group manager.

Want to know more?

For more information, you are warmly welcome to contact group manager Märta Lundkvist at phone: 0293-204 56 or email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

Union representatives can be reached via the switchboard: 018-611 00 00.

Application

Welcome with your application via the link below. Attach a copy of your license, CV, and other relevant documents that support your competence and experience.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to the operation and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala places all permanently employed staff based on the needs of total defense. This means that for the individual employee there are no obligations in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a hiring decision, a check of suspicion and criminal records regarding all applicants who may work in psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and adolescents, or compulsory care of substance abusers will be conducted, areas that are subject to optional record extracts. This applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks are not currently intended to primarily involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.