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The Red Cross Treatment Center is a unique resource within the healthcare sector, focusing entirely on treating migrants who suffer from severe mental health issues related to war, flight, persecution, or torture. Many of our patients have personally been exposed to war- and flight-related violence, abuse, and threats. Others have been traumatized by witnessing how their loved ones have been affected.

We are now looking to strengthen our team and are seeking you who are a psychologist with PTP (Psychological Trauma Treatment) competence. Here, you will have the opportunity to become part of a team with a holistic perspective on human health!

About the position
The Red Cross Treatment Center in Skövde provides treatment for people with migrant backgrounds suffering from severe mental health issues, regardless of their legal status. You will work in a multidisciplinary team consisting of psychologists, psychotherapists, physiotherapists, social workers, a peer supporter, a children's activities leader, a consulting physician, and an administrator. We treat people from all over the world, regardless of legal status, and treatment often takes place via an interpreter.

We offer continuous professional development through supervision, training, and the exchange of experience and knowledge with experienced colleagues. We are also linked to a knowledge center where research and method development are conducted.

We are looking for you who
Have completed a degree as a psychologist and are seeking a PTP position. You have a strong commitment to the target group, are solution-focused and self-initiating, and have good collaborative skills across all professional boundaries.

It is meritorious if you are accustomed to working with people from all over the world. You are welcome to speak multiple languages and should have previous experience in psychotherapeutic work with PTSD, or a strong interest in this area.

Personal suitability will be given great weight. You naturally share the Red Cross's humanitarian values.

More about us
The Swedish Red Cross runs treatment centers for war victims and torture survivors at six locations in Sweden: Skövde, Uppsala, Gothenburg, Malmö, and Skellefteå. The goal of the Swedish Red Cross treatment centers is to provide support and care to people who have been exposed to war trauma and torture, so they can reclaim their mental and physical health. In addition to clinical treatment work, we work to spread knowledge by offering training and information to various target groups, both externally and internally.

Other information
The position is a fixed-term full-time employment for one year, starting on August 24th. The location is at our treatment center on Mariestadsvägen 90 A in Skövde.

How we recruit
We welcome your application by June 15th. Feel free to contact the recruiting manager, Annicka Lang, at [email protected] if you have any questions.

The Swedish Red Cross strives to be an inclusive organization with employees who contribute to diversity in perspectives, experience, and background. We believe this makes us more relevant. Therefore, we welcome applicants with different ethnic and social backgrounds, gender identity and expression, religion, age, disabilities, and sexual orientation.

Our recruitment process begins with an initial selection based on a set profile of requirements, followed by interviews. In some cases, online tests, background checks, and reference checks may be included.

As the Swedish Red Cross is part of the "Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct" to protect our sector from sexual abuse, we ask specific questions regarding this to your references. Final candidates may also be screened against EU and UN sanctions lists.

Visit our career page to get to know the Swedish Red Cross a little better. There you will also find information about conditions, our culture, and contact details for the trade unions represented here.