Licensed Psychologist Wanted at Närhälsan

Närhälsan offers close primary care of the highest quality. With hundreds of clinics in Västra Götaland, we are close to the residents throughout their lives and make a difference for their health. We take care of you and offer development throughout your professional life.

About Us

Närhälsan Tuve health center is a well-established clinic in Hisingen with approximately 10,700 registered patients.

Our goal is to be the obvious workplace for you who have a strong commitment and want to truly change Swedish primary care.

We thrive together and value good relationships with our patients. We have general practitioners, ST and AT doctors, district nurses, nurses, nursing assistants, and medical secretaries working with us. We also have three psychologists working at the health center. Our supervisors are recognized as skilled and highly appreciated. We also have a child health clinic and family center in the same premises.

We believe it is important to have a flexible and close collaboration between our different professional groups. This is to best help our patients and to create a work environment where everyone can develop and feel pride in their own and our collective efforts.

As an employee of Närhälsan, you are offered various forms of development opportunities, for example through internal training and mentorship programs. At the workplace, we actively work on development to constantly improve our working methods and best meet our patients' needs. Please read more about the benefits and advantages we offer at Närhälsan: Link to our website (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion)

About the Job

Your main tasks consist of assessing and treating mental and behavioral health issues based on the primary care mission. The focus is on preventive and early interventions, based on common reasons for seeking care at a health center. You will work based on the needs of the registered population with digital care meetings, internet and group therapy, as well as physical individual visits.

We work based on primary care-oriented methods, where the work includes high accessibility, stepwise/stratified care, and collaboration with other professionals and care neighbors. It is important that you have an interest in working in primary care, which means prioritizing high accessibility for all residents with mental and behavioral health issues. Interventions range from psychoeducation and self-care advice to guided treatment with literature or internet treatment, to group therapy or individual treatment interventions. To meet the needs of the entire patient population, the ability to vary methods and the scope of treatment interventions is required.

You and your colleagues are jointly responsible with the health center manager for the development of the health center in an ongoing improvement process. Supervision of psychology candidates or PTP psychologists may be relevant.

About You

You are a licensed psychologist with CBT step 1 competence; other specializations may of course be relevant. It is an advantage if you have experience in the following:

• Working as a psychologist at the primary care level
• Stepwise/stratified care
• Internet-based psychological treatment
• Group therapy
• Other clinical experience

We are looking for someone who is attentive and accommodating, with good communication skills and the ability to identify individuals' unique needs. Through initiative and active engagement, you want to participate in the development work of the organization and contribute as a consultative resource in the daily interdisciplinary collaboration at the health center.

A professional approach and a good attitude towards customers, patients, and colleagues is a given for you. We also see that you live up to Närhälsan's core values: Reliable, Caring, and Innovative.

Other

Interviews at the health center will be held continuously during the application period.

Welcome with your application!

About the Recruitment Process

Selection takes place in two stages. The first selection is made by recruiters in the HR department who invite relevant candidates for a phone interview. Thereafter, the recruiting manager makes a second selection of the applicants and invites them for an interview at the health center.

We use competency-based interviews, which means that the answers to the questions should be based on actual situations. It is important that you describe as concrete situations as possible and try to avoid generalized answers – this is so we can understand the situation, why you acted as you did, and what the outcome was.

About Västra Götalandsregionen

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

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

Västra Götalandsregionen places all permanent employees in a reserve.

If you want to know more about Västra Götalandsregionen, 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

Västra Götalandsregionen prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for specific and special reasons cannot register your information in a public system - contact the contact person for the respective ad.

To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you as a seller: We kindly but firmly decline direct contact with staffing, placement, and recruitment companies as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job ads. Västra Götalandsregionen has contracted agreements.