Resident Physician for Adult Psychiatry Emergency Department – Akademiska Sjukhuset

We are Akademiska sjukhuset – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a county hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we offer healthcare to two million people in Central Sweden. Here, something is always happening – a new life is born, a grandmother undergoes surgery, a colleague is hailed as a hero. With us, you will experience both tough challenges and fantastic events, within a strong community of colleagues. We welcome your application!

Our Operations

The Psychiatry Business Area at Akademiska sjukhuset is organized into four subspecialized sections, where the Emergency Department for Adult Psychiatry and the Psychiatric Emergency Care Unit belong to the Acute and Consultation Psychiatry section. The Emergency Department for Adult Psychiatry provides 24/7 on-call services and has overall responsibility for psychiatric emergency operations as well as consultation services for the rest of the hospital. The department also includes a Psychiatric Emergency Care Unit (PAVA) with twelve beds and the PAM unit, staffed by specialist nurses. We are looking for you who are a licensed physician with an interest in emergency psychiatry. We can offer an stimulating workplace where the pace can sometimes be high and no two days are alike.

We offer you the opportunity to work at a secure workplace that provides room for personal and professional development at both an individual and group level. We offer a pleasant work environment with continuous supervision, where we together ensure that patients receive the best possible care.

Your Role

Currently, the Psychiatry Business Area is undergoing a transition towards patient-centered care. In this work, the Emergency Department for Adult Psychiatry will launch a follow-up clinic, where individuals without prior contact with specialist psychiatry can be followed for a shorter period and receive crisis support, suicide preventive measures, and undergo shorter investigations. For this specific position, we are looking for two resident physicians (underläkare) who, with the support of attending physicians, will run this clinic. The work includes, in addition to the assessments and interventions mentioned above, supervision of students, as well as routine work at the emergency department with acute primary on-call assessments, psychiatric and somatic examinations, medical record keeping, and feedback of assessments and actions to the nursing staff. An important part of the job is to coordinate cooperation with somatic care colleagues and organize follow-up for patients within primary care or specialist psychiatry, under supervision.

Working at the Emergency Department for Adult Psychiatry requires you to work efficiently, target-oriented, and collaborate with various professional categories. All psychiatric disease patterns occur in daily work.

Your Qualifications and Competence

We are looking for you who have a Swedish medical license and a genuine interest in psychiatry. As a person, you are responsible, collegial, and stress-resistant. You have good communication and collaboration skills. Teamwork is an essential part of the position. Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, is a requirement (minimum level C1).

We place great emphasis on personal qualities.

What We Offer

We offer a fixed-term project appointment of 6 months with the possibility of extension. The position is full-time with working hours scheduled for days, evenings, and on-call shifts. On-call duty is included in the position.

Start date: According to agreement.

With us, you receive benefits that make a difference. Read more about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/).

Want to know more?

Sara Sylvén, Deputy Business Manager, 018 - 611 04 51
Shadia Miranda, Section Administrator, 018 - 617 70 57

Union representative via switchboard, 018 - 611 00 00

Do you want to work with us?

Please submit your application via the link below. Interviews will be held continuously during the application period, and the temporary position may therefore be filled before the final application deadline has passed.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to the operations and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different birth backgrounds, functionalities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala mobilizes all permanent staff based on the needs of the total defense. This entails no obligations for the individual employee in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a decision on employment, checks of suspicion and criminal records are conducted for all job seekers who, in the sought position, may come to work within psychiatric healthcare, habilitation, care of children and youth, or involuntary care of addicts, areas covered by optional record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks at present are not intended to mainly involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is conducted entirely through Region Uppsala's own channels, and we decline phone calls from recruitment agencies and advertising sales.