Physiotherapist at Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic in Trelleborg

REGION SKÅNE · Full-time

Region Skåne, Trelleborg, Sweden

Make a difference. Every day. Do you want to work providing support and treatment to children and adolescents while being part of developing the operations forward? Then this could be the right position for you! We look forward to welcoming a licensed physiotherapist who is confident in their professional role and curious about working in a psychiatric context. Here in Trelleborg, the city of palms, a lot is happening. With exciting urban transformation projects and infrastructure investments, an attractive coastal city is being built right now in the expansive and dynamic Öresund region. Trelleborg is growing for the future, and you are welcome to join us on our journey toward sustainable long-term growth and work for our clinic in Trelleborg. That's why we're looking for someone who is engaged and wants to help drive the operations forward. We are a positive group that cares about each other and we always have room for laughter and camaraderie. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUP) in Skåne is characterized by continuous improvement work to develop the care and support we wish to provide our patients. As a physiotherapist, you have an important mission to contribute your perspective and expertise. Here you get to use all your competence in meeting each young person and quickly build alliance to meet the child where it is. BUP Trelleborg is a clinic with 29 committed employees divided among psychologists, counselors, physicians, nurses, an occupational therapist, and medical secretaries. In addition, we have a PTP psychologist, ST physician, psychology assistants, and other students at our clinic. If you're curious about our operations, you are warmly welcome to contact us, and we'll tell you more! 1 position(s). JOB DUTIES We are now seeking a licensed physiotherapist for our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic! Here you will have the opportunity to develop together with us. In your role as a physiotherapist with us, you work to strengthen children's and adolescents' functional capacity, recovery, and physical well-being in connection with mental health challenges. You are also an important part of collaboration with the family network, schools, and social services. You become a much-needed part of the team as you contribute the rehabilitative perspective and physiotherapeutic expertise in assessments, treatments, and group activities. The work is varied and can include everything from individual interventions to body awareness, stress management, pain treatment, and consultation with colleagues. With us you get engaged colleagues, close teamwork, and the opportunity to develop physiotherapeutic approaches within BUP. We work primarily individually with our patients but the team is available as a resource. The staff's broad expertise is used to best match the children's and families' challenges. We have many patients who need our help and receive referrals that primarily come from Social Services, One Way In, First Line, schools, and health centers. You have great freedom to influence and organize your work while also having close collaboration with the unit manager. As a new employee, your employment begins with an orientation period where you work with the treatment team coordinator at the clinic to best get to know the operations, colleagues, and our guidelines. There is a network of physiotherapists within BUP; in inpatient care in Malmö, the eating disorders team in Malmö, BUP Trauma, outpatient care in Lund, Helsingborg, Kristianstad, and in Ystad. With these colleagues there is an opportunity for observation and internal training. During the orientation period, you have an experienced mentor who provides you with support and advice in your learning so that you become confident in your new role. QUALIFICATIONS We welcome you as a licensed physiotherapist with authorization to practice within Swedish healthcare. In addition, you have Swedish language skills corresponding at least to level C1 according to the Council of Europe's scale. We consider it advantageous if you have experience with body awareness treatments such as Feldenkrais method, Basic Body Awareness Therapy, or Somatic Experiencing. Experience with children and young people, stress management, or trauma treatment is meriting but not required. As a physiotherapist at BUP, you also participate in group treatment for children with depression, anxiety, and trauma. We would therefore like you to have experience leading groups. Region Skåne also invests in physical activity for all our patients, so training experience is positive. To succeed in your role, you are a focused and flexible person with a good ability to set your own boundaries based on the routines and decisions made. You are responsible and comfortable working both individually and in teams. Furthermore, you have a holistic perspective regarding our patients. To be able to offer good care to our patients and their families and maintain good contact with other stakeholders, we require that you have good collaboration skills and are clear in your communication. We are looking for someone who is engaged in helping children and young people and has the drive to move the operations forward. When filling this position, great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. A background check will be conducted prior to any employment. In this recruitment, continuous selection is applied. We warmly welcome your application today; we look forward to getting to know you! Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Entry date: Entry according to agreement. Psychiatry, habilitation, and assistive devices is the second largest administration with operations throughout Skåne. We have a broad mission where many different competencies together provide our patients with the best care and support. With curiosity and strong interest, we also invest in development and research. The mission within psychiatry is to conduct specialized care in publicly operated child, adult, and forensic psychiatry. Habilitation conducts habilitation and rehabilitation within publicly operated child, youth, and adult habilitation. Assistive devices have the mission to handle assistive devices prescribed to patients in Skåne. Within the administration there is also vision, hearing, and deaf services and youth clinics in Skåne. If you have protected personal information, you should contact the contact person specified in the notice so that your application is handled according to special procedures. When you apply for a job at Region Skåne, your application becomes a public record according to the principle of public access. 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