Counselor for DBT Unit, Psychiatric Clinic

Region Västerbotten works to ensure that good health and sustainable development strengthen each other. We take responsibility for an equitable welfare system and for ensuring that research and innovation yield results.

Within the Psychiatric Clinic at Norrlands University Hospital, a business development initiative is underway where we are developing and strengthening the organization. The clinic is the largest psychiatric clinic in Northern Sweden with more than 400 employees.

The DBT Unit is a small outpatient unit that provides Dialectical Behavior Therapy in various formats for individuals with self-destructive, self-harming, and severe quality-of-life-disrupting behaviors. The activity serves as a complementary effort to the core tasks of other psychiatric clinics.

The focus of the DBT Unit aims to promote the development of skills to reduce self-destructive and severely quality-of-life-disrupting problematic behaviors, as well as to promote safety and stability in both well-being and daily functioning. The foundation for the unit's focus and treatment offerings is based on national recommendations for handling and treating self-harming behavior, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and other CBT-based interventions. To meet the target group's needs based on diagnosis and cognitive profile, the unit offers several treatment formats: Standard DBT, Adapted and Enhanced DBT, and the DBT Skills System.

1 position available.

Job Responsibilities

As a counselor with us, you contribute to taking good care of others and helping people feel better. The work at the treatment unit takes place in cross-professional team collaboration and in cooperation with the patients' primary clinics. The team consists of 5 employees, all of whom work with assessment and treatment. The work includes in-depth mapping of self-harming behavior, individual treatments, and skills training in group format using DBT as a method. Collaboration with patients' networks also occurs.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have a degree in Social Work (Social Work) and basic psychotherapy training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Dialectical Behavior Therapy. You have professional experience from psychiatric treatment, and we see that you have an interest in meeting and treating patients with challenging behaviors, as well as experience in collaborating with both internal and external actors.

We value personal qualities highly and are looking for you who enjoy taking initiative, are creative, responsible, work in a structured manner, and thrive in development and change processes. You have a good ethical approach, can work both independently and in a team, and have good communication skills, both in relation to colleagues and patients.

Great importance is attached to personal suitability.

Employment Terms

• Employment type: Permanent position
• Duration: Permanent
• Working hours: Shift schedule

Read more about our benefits for you who work with us on our website (https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner).

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, welcoming applicants from various backgrounds.

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If you have a protected identity and wish to apply, please contact the recruiting manager and then send your application documents by post.

Before employment, we will request an extract from the criminal record and suspicion register.