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The field of forensic psychiatry is in a dynamic development phase with changes in both legislation and care content, with an increased focus on outpatient care and expanded collaboration with the region's municipalities and the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. The field is part of Psychiatry Skåne and consists of forensic psychiatric units in Malmö, Kristianstad, Helsingborg, and Hässleholm.

Forensic psychiatry cares for a particularly vulnerable group of patients who often consist of society's most functionally impaired and resource-poor individuals. The highly specialized care is based on the patients' complex psychiatric issues, which include severe mental illness, often in combination with substance abuse, social isolation, and marginalization, as well as somatic health problems. The goal of forensic psychiatric care is to habilitate/rehabilitate these individuals to a drug-free daily life in society, with increased psychosocial functioning and reduced risk of reoffending.

Within inpatient care, there are two teams consisting of senior physicians, junior physicians, occupational therapists, psychologists, social workers, and medical secretaries. On each department, there are care teams with nurses and caregivers who serve as a resource for the team regarding the daily care of patients. It is the treatment team that, together with the care team, is responsible for the patients throughout their inpatient stay.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a social worker, your work includes psychosocial treatment and investigation work as well as practical curative interventions. The work is always based on a holistic perspective with the patient in focus. You will work both with individual contacts and the patient's private and professional network. Additionally, you will conduct risk assessments of patients together with your team. As a social worker, you also have a role as a children's representative, by paying attention to and supporting the children in the patient's immediate vicinity.

The working hours are scheduled during the day, Monday to Friday.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a qualified social worker, and we prefer that you are a licensed health and medical care social worker, but this is not a requirement. If you belong to a licensed professional group, language skills in Swedish equivalent to at least level C1 according to the Council of Europe's level scale are required. For non-licensed professions, good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing is required. You should have previous work experience as a social worker with experience in authority exercise. It is also desirable that you have experience working with mental health issues, substance abuse, and criminality.

As a person, you are flexible, proactive, and creative. Since you will work both individually and in a team, you need to have good collaboration skills, as well as the ability to work independently. We want you to contribute to good cooperation through strong commitment, good communication, a positive attitude, and sharing your knowledge.

A background check will be conducted before any employment.

Warm welcome with your application!

OTHER

Region Skåne exists to ensure that everyone living in Skåne feels good and has hope for the future. Through limitless collaborations and care, the best conditions for a healthy life in business, public transport, culture, and health care in Skåne are created. Together we make life more possible.

Psychiatry, habilitation, and assistive devices is the second largest administration with operations throughout Skåne. We have a broad mission where many different competencies together provide our patients with the best care and support. With curiosity and great interest, we also invest in development and research.

The mission within psychiatry is to provide specialized care in publicly operated child, adult, and forensic psychiatry. Habilitation provides habilitation and rehabilitation within publicly operated child, youth, and adult habilitation. Assistive devices are tasked with managing assistive devices prescribed to patients in Skåne. Within the administration, there are also visual, hearing, and deaf services and youth clinics in Skåne.

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