Psychologist, Combined Position

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Närhälsan offers high-quality primary care close to home. With hundreds of clinics throughout Western Gothia, we are present for residents throughout their lives and make a difference in their health. We take care of you and offer development throughout your professional career. About Us Welcome to Närhälsan Vargön health center. Here, dedicated staff from various professions work together, and we are now looking for you to combine work at our health center in Vargön with assignments within Youth Mental Health (UPH) in Sylte. As an employee at Närhälsan, you are offered excellent development opportunities through, for example, in-house training and mentorship programs. At our workplaces, we actively work on development initiatives to continuously improve our working methods and meet our patients' needs. Would you like to read more about our benefits? Link to our website About the Position This is a combined role where you share your time between Närhälsan Vargön health center and Youth Mental Health (UPH) Sylte. The arrangement is flexible and designed through dialogue, for example regarding working days, placement, and the opportunity for digital visits. Youth Mental Health (UPH) has the mandate to offer children, adolescents, and their guardians with mental health issues early and appropriate care. You will work with assessing, diagnosing, and treating children and adolescents with mental health issues, considering psychosocial factors and proposing and implementing appropriate interventions. You collaborate with other stakeholders such as schools and social services, where you also participate in SIP meetings. Treatment interventions for depression, anxiety, and self-harm behaviors, as well as counseling, support, and crisis conversations are part of your assignment. You will be an important contact for parental support both individually and in groups, and you will also conduct other group treatments such as worry management, AFFEKT, and ABC. We work from primary care-oriented approaches, where work includes high accessibility, stepped/stratified care, and collaboration with other professions and care partners. It is important that you have an interest in working with a primary care orientation, which means prioritizing high accessibility for all residents with mental and behavior-related health issues. About You You are a licensed psychologist with at least one year of clinical experience working with children and adolescents with mental health issues. It is advantageous if you have experience from the following: Working as a psychologist at the primary care level Stepped care Internet-based psychological treatment Group treatment We are looking for someone who is attentive and accommodating, with good communication skills and the ability to identify individuals' unique needs. Through initiative and active engagement, you want to participate in the development of the operation and contribute as a consultative resource in daily interprofessional collaboration at the health center. A professional approach and good conduct toward customers, patients, and colleagues are essential for you. We also see that you live up to Närhälsan's core values: Reliable, Considerate, and Innovative. Other Information Business travel occurs; a Class B driver's license is required. Interviews are planned to be held on August 11. We look forward to receiving your application! About the Recruitment Process Selection takes place in two stages. The first selection is made by recruiters in the HR department who invite relevant candidates for a phone interview. Subsequently, the recruiting manager makes a second selection of the applicants and invites them for an interview at the health center. We use competency-based interviews, which means that answers to questions should be based on actual situations. It is important that you describe situations as concretely as possible and try to avoid generalizing answers—this is so we can understand the situation, why you acted as you did, and what the result was. About Western Gothia Region With us, you become part of a larger whole. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives every day throughout Western Gothia. You contribute to safe and equitable care and to a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communication create quality of life. We are in the midst of digital development where you get to help shape future working methods to improve and simplify everyday life for residents and operations. As a permanent employee, you will be war-stationed as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that societally critical functions work even in crisis. Want to know more about us? On our website, you can read more about our benefits and meet employees who make a difference and develop in their professions every day. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ Application Western Gothia Region prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for particular and special reasons cannot register your information in a public system—contact the contact person for the respective ad. To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you as a salesperson: We kindly but firmly decline direct contact from staffing, placement, and recruitment companies as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job postings. Western Gothia Region has procurement agreements in place.Närhälsan offers high-quality primary care close to home. With hundreds of clinics throughout Western Gothia, we are present for residents throughout their lives and make a difference in their health. We take care of you and offer development throughout your professional career. About Us Welcome to Närhälsan Vargön health center. Here, dedicated staff from various professions work together, and we are now looking for you to combine work at our health center in Vargön with assignments within Youth Mental Health (UPH) in Sylte. As an employee at Närhälsan, you are offered excellent development…

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Vargön

Address

Nordkroksvägen 3

GPS

58.356411442, 12.389231768904copyopen in

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Published

30. 7. 2026

Edited

1. 8. 2026

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