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We are now looking for a psychologist who wants to become part of our team at the outpatient clinic for Young Adults. Here, you will work closely with patients and, together with engaged colleagues, contribute to good and developing care.

The Stockholm Centre for Eating Disorders (SCÄ) is one of the world's largest specialist clinics for patients with eating disorders and receives patients of all ages.

We have a well-developed operation with digital care, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, day care, inpatient care, and national high-specialized care for both adults, children, and adolescents. Today, we have nearly 300 employees. Our outpatient and day care are located on Södermalm, and our inpatient care is at Danderyd Hospital.

Please read more about our operations here.

Outpatient care for young adults is a unit that treats patients from 16 years up to 22 years old with eating disorder issues and in some cases also other psychiatric comorbidity. Our clinic works from a holistic perspective and offers evidence-based treatment CBT-E, which is a specific treatment method designed for patients with eating disorder diagnoses. Treatment can take place individually, in groups, and with members of the network and family.

You will encounter a broad spectrum of diagnoses, which makes the work stimulating and educational. The work involves treating eating disorders and other psychiatric diagnoses. The position includes patient contacts, administrative tasks, and collaboration with neighboring care providers.

We aim to collaborate closely with each other in our cross-professional team, which consists of doctors, psychologists, nurses, physiotherapists, and dietitians.

What do we offer you?

We offer you interesting and developing work, an exciting workplace with very nice colleagues and a good work community. There will be opportunities for competence development and further training according to the needs of the operation. You will become highly skilled in eating disorder treatment and have the opportunity to deliver therapy in accordance with evidence for the patient group. You will encounter a broad spectrum of diagnoses, which makes the work stimulating and educational. It is a great advantage if you are skilled in behavioral analysis and perhaps other evidence-based treatment protocols, as some adaptations may need to be made.

Job Responsibilities:

Your main job responsibilities will be to conduct psychological treatment work, primarily individually, but possibly also in groups. The responsibilities also include clinical assessments and collaboration with SCÄ's other units, such as the outpatient care for children and with inpatient care. You will participate in treatment conferences, supervision, and method development together with other staff at the unit.

Employment Type:

Permanent position.

Full-time, 40 hours/week.

Qualifications:

You are a licensed psychologist with a CBT focus.

It is meritorious if you are a senior psychologist and have experience of eating disorder care, CBT-E, clinical.

Personal Qualities:

You have a strong interest in evidence-based care, have good collaboration skills, are responsible, efficient, and passionate about developing as a psychologist. You are empathetic and confident in meeting people with disabling psychiatric issues.

Curiosity and the ability to find solutions are important qualities. To thrive with us, we believe you are a person who likes to take initiative, has a pragmatic approach, and drives continuous development and improvement work. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Our Benefits: SLSO creates good conditions for you as an employee to develop and become really good within your profession. As an employee, you have benefits such as free healthcare up to the high-cost protection limit, extra compensation during parental leave, contractual pension, and insurance. We also apply flexible hours, a wellness hour, and a 5,000 SEK wellness allowance/calendar year.

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