Department of Psychiatry

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. Something is always happening here – a new life is born, a grandmother undergoes surgery, a colleague is hailed as a hero. Here, you will experience both tough challenges and fantastic events, within a strong community of colleagues. We welcome your application!

Our Operations

The Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient Team is a county-wide specialist unit tasked with investigating, diagnosing, treating, and assessing care levels for geriatric psychiatric patients in outpatient care. The target group consists of older individuals with complex psychiatric conditions where symptoms are often related to aging, such as affective and psychotic disorders, often in combination with varying degrees of cognitive impairment.

The unit is also responsible for the investigation, diagnosis, treatment, and care level assessment of individuals with dementia and severe psychiatric symptoms, BPSD (Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia), where care requires specialist interventions beyond standard dementia care.

The mandate also includes consultation, supervision, and educational efforts towards neighboring care providers such as primary care, municipal operations, students, and specialty trainee doctors. The team is multiprofessional, consisting of doctors, nurses, social workers, and administrative staff, creating good prerequisites for close collaboration around the patient.

Patients arrive at the clinic via referral or self-registration. The work also includes support and guidance for relatives in connection with the patient's illness, disability, and changed behaviors. Collaboration with the municipality and primary care is a natural and central part of the operations. Depending on needs and situations, patient meetings take place at the clinic or in the patient's home.

Psychiatry today faces a growing target group of older people with mental ill health and complex care needs. The position offers the opportunity to participate in development-oriented work within a specialist area of great societal relevance. We continuously prioritize the development of working methods and staying updated on current research in the field.

Your Role

Your working days will consist of standard specialist physician work at the geriatric psychiatry clinic from Monday to Friday, with both scheduled and acute assessments. A central part of the role is the consultative work, where support is provided to other healthcare providers. Patients and relatives are met at the clinic and through home visits across the entire county.

Your Qualifications and Competence

We are looking for you who want to work in a team where a holistic perspective, collaboration, and patient-centered work are in focus.
You will become part of a multiprofessional team where collaboration and shared responsibility for the patient's care are crucial.
We value that you are collaborative, solution-oriented, and considerate, with a good ability to contribute to a safe and respectful work climate. You are a specialist physician in psychiatry or geriatrics. Experience in geriatric psychiatry is meritorious. Pedagogical experience is meritorious as supervision and knowledge transfer are an important part of the role.

A valid B-driver's license is required as the clinic conducts home visits throughout the county.

We Offer

The position is a permanent employment, probationary employment may apply. Start date is negotiable. The employment rate is 100%, but there are good opportunities for individual solutions. On-call and standby duties are included in the position for psychiatry specialists.

The position may be filled before the application period has ended.

If you have an interest in teaching or research, there are good opportunities to develop this further. We see regular continuing education as necessary both to maintain and develop your own competence. Here, you receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/ (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/)).

Want to know more?

Department Manager Emma Modig 018 - 611 23 32
Section Administrator Shadi Zangi 018 - 611 21 23
Section Manager Alexander Joneby 018-611 23 56
Union contact person can be reached via Uppland General Medical Association, office 018-611 34 95

Want to work with us?

Welcome to submit your application via the link below.

OBS! Important information regarding your application:

• Appointment of positions for specialist-trained physicians at university hospitals requires expert review according to the Health and Medical Care Act (2017:80) Chapter 5, Section 8.
• Always attach a CV, cover letter, and specialist physician certificate issued by the National Board of Health and Welfare.
• For positions where academic merit in the form of a doctoral degree or equivalent is stated as a competence requirement, a certificate of defense must also be attached to the application.
• Even if you have previously applied for positions at Akademiska Sjukhuset, you need to submit the above documents for the application to be complete. All documents must be in our possession by the last application day. An incomplete application will not proceed in the process.
• The job proposals are published on Region Uppsala's official notice board; https://regionuppsala.se/politik-och-paverkan/handlingar/anslagstavla/ (https://regionuppsala.se/politik-och-paverkan/handlingar/anslagstavla/)

Read about employment terms and salary setting within Region Uppsala here: Become our new colleague (https://regionuppsala.se/jobb-och-utbildning/bli-var-nya-kollega/)

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 implies no obligations for the individual employee in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

In connection with decisions on employment, checks of suspicion and criminal records are conducted for all job seekers who in the sought employment 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 currently are not intended to mainly contain work with the aforementioned patient groups.

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