Area of Operations: Psychiatry

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Temporary Position for Junior Doctor – Affective Disorders

We are now looking for engaged colleagues who want to work as junior doctors in both outpatient and inpatient care at the Section for Affective Disorders. This is an opportunity for you who want to make a real difference for our patients and develop in a dynamic work environment together with knowledgeable colleagues. With us, you will work in a team where collaboration, respect, and joy at work are at the center. Here we help each other and learn from one another every day.

Our Operations

The Psychiatry area at Akademiska sjukhuset is divided into four sections, with the section for affective disorders being one of them. The section offers both inpatient care and several outpatient clinics and is responsible for specialized psychiatric care for adults in Uppsala County. Work is carried out in interdisciplinary teams around the patients.

In outpatient care, patients with bipolar disorder, depression, and severe personality and anxiety disorders are assessed and treated. The section also includes a gender identity clinic and an eating disorder unit for adults. In inpatient care, more severely or acutely ill patients are treated.

The medical team consists of senior physicians, specialist doctors, resident doctors, and junior doctors. The collaborative climate is very positive; discussions about patient cases and medical issues are welcomed. Here you are given good opportunities for personal and professional development through stimulating meetings with patients, relatives, and colleagues within both your own and other sections, areas of operations, universities, and among students. Our clinics are characterized by a solution-focused and pleasant culture with good collaboration across professional boundaries. This is evident both in everyday life and during our joint meetings, and we are happy to now welcome several colleagues to us.

Your Assignment

As a junior doctor in affective outpatient care, your tasks include patient reception for assessment and diagnosis, medication follow-ups, prescription writing, and certificate writing. You collaborate systematically with colleagues and other professionals in the team and are offered regular supervision by specialist doctors, which many in the role appreciate. In the position as a junior doctor in affective inpatient care, you work closely with both specialist doctors and other staff in the department, where the usual medical work includes patient conversations for assessment and treatment of hospitalized patients, in addition to medication follow-ups, prescription writing, and certificate writing.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has obtained a medical degree and has a genuine interest in psychiatry. Regarding personal abilities, we are looking for someone who is stable, structured, has good collaboration skills, and sound judgment. Previous experience in psychiatry is an advantage. If you recognize yourself in this description, this could be the right challenge for you!

We Offer

We offer fixed-term temporary positions, with the possibility of extension. The working hours are full-time and the start date will be agreed upon. Prior to employment, a background check and a health declaration will be completed. Selection and interviews are ongoing, which means that the position may be filled during the application period. Therefore, do not wait to submit your application!

With us, you will receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/).

Want to Know More?

Chief Physician Isak Sundberg 018 – 611 25 36
Section Administrator Ellinor Rijnen Wester 018 - 611 21 23

Union contact person can be reached via Uppland's General Medical Association, office 018-611 34 95.

Want to Work with Us?

Do you want to work with us? Welcome with your application via the link below. It is important that you attach documents that support your qualifications. Selection, interviews, and appointments are ongoing.

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

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

This recruitment is conducted entirely through Region Uppsala's efforts, and we kindly ask recruitment companies and advertisement sellers to refrain from calling.