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Social Worker with DBT Competence for Centralized DBT Team

VÄSTRA GÖTALANDSREGIONEN

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Social Worker with DBT Competence for Centralized DBT Team

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 residents. 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.

Do you want to be part of a newly established centralized DBT team within Adult Psychiatry?

Our ambition is to offer and create conditions for stimulating, exciting, and interesting work with good development opportunities!

Description

We are looking for a social worker with DBT competence for a centralized DBT team that is part of the Affectivity psychiatric outpatient clinic at Uddevalla Hospital.

The DBT team will function as a comprehensive unit within NU Healthcare's adult psychiatry. The primary mission is to provide complete DBT treatment for patients aged 18 and over. In addition to the treatment mission, the team will maintain relevant competence in the area and, if necessary, provide support for other clinics within the organization. The assignment requires physical presence at the workplace, remote work is only allowed in exceptional cases.

Qualifications

You are a social worker or a licensed health and medical care social worker. In addition, you have further education and experience in DBT and CBT.

The work requires personal maturity, experience, and a preference for working independently and making quick decisions. You should be stress-resistant and able to handle a high work pace. We expect you to be structured, clear, orderly, and flexible, as well as having a willingness and interest in working and being part of a team.

We place great importance on personal suitability and value qualities such as flexibility and good social competence, where humor, initiative, and positive thinking are clear merits.

Other

We conduct interviews continuously throughout the application period.

When filling positions within psychiatry, we always request a background check from the suspicion and criminal record register. This request is handled by the employer.

Welcome with your application!

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 working methods. To be part of the digital transformation, you possess 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.

The Västra Götaland Region places all permanent employees in reserve duty.

If you want to know more about the Västra Götaland Region, you can visit our introduction for 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

The Västra Götaland Region prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for special reasons cannot register your information in a public system - contact the contact person for each advertisement.

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 advertisements. The Västra Götaland Region has contracted agreements.

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