Licensed Psychologist at NU Healthcare

NU Healthcare is part of the Västra Götaland region and is one of Sweden's larger county hospitals. We are located at NÄL (Norra Älvsborg County Hospital) in Trollhättan and Uddevalla Hospital. The hospital's catchment area includes 280,000 inhabitants. Together, we are about 5,000 employees who work every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare. We are located on the west coast, and our area offers varied nature with both sea, mountains, forests, and lakes.

Description

Our ambition is to offer and create conditions for a stimulating, exciting, and interesting job with good development opportunities.

Our mission is to provide psychiatric specialist care to individuals over 18 years old with psychotic disorders as well as individuals with bipolar disorder.

As a new employee, you will join a service that focuses on the patient, with well-established colleagues and a good work community. We are about 13 people in the reception, including psychologists, social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, caregivers, peer support, medical secretaries, and doctors.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities include psychotherapy and psychological treatment work of various kinds and orientations, as well as assessment and investigation work, including personality and neuropsychiatric issues. Interventions occur individually, in groups, and digitally. We work with ongoing evaluations in the team of current psychological treatments. The work is carried out in close collaboration with other competencies in the team. There is access to supervision for both psychotherapy and neuropsychological assessments.

Qualifications

Licensed Psychologist.

Experience in adult psychiatric treatment and investigation work is desirable. Further education in psychological differential diagnosis and investigation methodology is meritorious, as well as specialist qualifications, psychotherapy degree, and other training in specific treatment methods such as CBT, PDT, or DBT.

The most important thing is that you have an eclectic approach, as we value different perspectives among psychologists and between professions.

We want all our employees to be involved in creating a workplace characterized by employee participation, equality, job satisfaction, respect, and development. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability, where qualities such as collaboration skills and the ability to work independently are important.

A driver's license is required for the position.

Other

Interviews may be conducted continuously during the application period.

When filling a position in psychiatry, we always request a background check from the suspicion and criminal records. This request is handled by the employer.

Welcome with your application!

The position may be placed in a security class. This means that a security review and background check may be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Security Protection Act before employment.

About Västra Götaland Region

The Västra Götaland Region exists for the people of Västra Götaland. We ensure that there is good healthcare for all. We work for sustainable development and growth, a good environment, improved public health, a rich cultural life, and good communication throughout Västra Götaland.

The Västra Götaland Region actively works to digitize more work methods. To be part of the digital transformation, you should possess basic skills and be able to use digital tools and services. You can search for information, communicate, interact digitally, are risk-aware, and have the motivation to participate in the development to learn new things.

The Västra Götaland Region places all permanent employees in a war position.

If you want to know more about the Västra Götaland Region, you can visit our introduction to new employees at the link here (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion). You can also read more in the presentation here (https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate).

Application

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