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Do you want to make a difference for children and young people with complex psychiatric issues? At BUP Mellanvård, you will become part of an engaged and experienced team where collaboration, development, and the patient's needs are at the center.

BUP Mellanvård is part of the BUP section for Intensive Outpatient Care and offers specialized interventions to children, young people, and their families who need more intensive support. The clinic is located at Arenavägen 33 in the Globen area.

We work according to FACT (Flexible Assertive Community Treatment) – a model based on flexibility, collaboration, and individualized interventions for patients with complex psychiatric issues, often in combination with comorbidity and reduced functional capacity. Treatment is tailored to the needs of each patient and family and takes place at the clinic, at home, or in other environments where the patient is located.

Around 20 employees with various professions work here, including doctors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, therapists, and administrators. We value cross-professional collaboration, knowledge sharing, and an open working climate where everyone contributes their expertise.

Job Description

As an occupational therapist, you will become an important part of our cross-professional team. You are responsible for occupational therapy assessments and treatment interventions for children, young people, and their relatives. The role includes:

• assessing activity and functional capacity,
• planning and implementing occupational therapy interventions,
• contributing to rehabilitation planning,
• providing consultative support to colleagues in working with patients' activity capacity,
• collaborating with families and other actors around the child or young person.

The work is carried out both individually and in close collaboration with other professions within the team. Here, you will have a varied and meaningful job where you have the opportunity to make a real difference in the daily lives and development of children and young people.

Qualifications

Licensed occupational therapist is required.

Experience in occupational therapy work with children and young people within habilitation or child and adolescent psychiatry is meritorious.

Personal Attributes

As a person, you are secure and stable and take initiative in your work role. To succeed in the role, you have good collaboration skills. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We Offer

An stimulating and meaningful job with competent colleagues in multiprofessional teams. We offer a dynamic learning environment that also makes the work exciting and varied, both at the unit and within our section. Here, you will receive an individually adapted introduction with a mentor as well as the opportunity for supervision. Our clinic is characterized by high engagement for our patients and good cooperation. We have benefits such as pension, flextime, fitness hour, and a generous fitness allowance of 5,000 SEK per year. We are located in nice, bright premises at Globen, which we share with two Mellanvård units.

Employment Type

The position is a permanent full-time employment. Start date by agreement.

We look forward to your application!

About Us

BUP Stockholm's unit for young people with psychosis and bipolar disorder is part of BUP Stockholm. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Stockholm (BUP) offers specialized psychiatric care for children and young people under 18 years of age within Stockholm County. We are part of the Stockholm County Council Healthcare Services (SLSO), which is a healthcare provider within Region Stockholm. Together, we in BUP have about 1,200 employees who meet over 22,000 children, young people, and their families every year.

The position is filled subject to it not needing to be taken for internal reassignment, according to current regulations.

In patient-related work within Stockholm County Council Healthcare Services:

- register control is applied before the decision on employment according to SLSO's overarching guidelines for register control upon employment.

>- employees who will have patient contact must undergo a new employment examination, according to current directives, which takes place through occupational health services before employment.

- in addition to Swedish professional licensure, good knowledge of the Swedish language corresponding to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is required. The same requirements are guiding for non-licensed personnel with patient contact.

Stockholm County Council Healthcare Services (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We offer health and medical care under the auspices of Region Stockholm within psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, near-acute care, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, and assistive devices. In collaboration with Karolinska Institutet, we conduct research, education, and development. Read more about SLSO here.

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