Psychologist, Youth Mental Health

Närhälsan offers high-quality primary care close to home. With hundreds of clinics throughout Västra Götaland, we are present for residents throughout their lives and make a difference in their health. We take care of you and offer development opportunities throughout your professional career. About Us Welcome to Närhälsan's Youth Mental Health! As an employee at Närhälsan, you are offered various forms of development opportunities, such as internal training and regular supervision. At our workplace, we have great engagement and our three teams work closely together. Youth Mental Health continuously conducts many development and improvement initiatives for our patients' benefit, so you should have a great ability to be flexible and of course have good teamwork. We look forward to continuing to shape a good clinic together and growing in an organization that is expected to continue prioritizing accessible and high-quality primary care for children and young people and investing in mental health. Feel free to read more about the benefits and advantages we offer at Närhälsan: Link to our website About the Work Youth Mental Health (UPH) is tasked with providing children, adolescents, and their guardians with mental health issues early and appropriate care. As a psychologist, you will work in close collaboration with other primary care personnel and have the opportunity to serve at all our units in the area as well as partially digitally. You will assess, diagnose, and treat children and young people with mental health issues and consider psychosocial factors, proposing and implementing appropriate interventions. You collaborate with other actors 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 responsibilities. You will be an important contact for parental support both individually and in groups and conduct other group treatments such as worry management, AFFEKT, and ABC. We work according to primary care-oriented approaches, where work includes high accessibility, stepped/stratified care, and collaboration with other professionals and care partners. It is important that you have an interest in working with a primary care focus, which means prioritizing high accessibility for all residents with mental and behavioral health issues. About You You are a licensed psychologist with at least one year of clinical experience working with children and young people with mental health issues. It is advantageous if you have experience from the following: Work as a psychologist at regional primary care level Stepped care Internet-based psychological treatment Group treatment We are looking for someone who is responsive 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 department's development work and contribute as a consultative resource in the daily multidisciplinary collaboration at the health center. A professional approach and good treatment of customers, patients, and colleagues is a given for you. We also see that you live up to Närhälsan's core values: Reliable, Considerate, and Forward-thinking. Other Information Business travel occurs; a B driver's license is required. Interviews at the unit will be held on an ongoing basis. We look forward to your application! About the Recruitment Process Selection is done in two steps. The first selection is made by recruiters in the HR department who call relevant candidates for a phone interview. After that, the hiring manager makes a second selection of the applicants and calls 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 concrete situations as much as possible and try to avoid generalizing answers – this so we can understand the situation, why you acted as you did, and what the result was. About Västra Götaland Region With us, you become part of something larger. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives throughout Västra Götaland every day. You contribute to safe and equitable care and to a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life. We are in the midst of digital development where you get to help shape the future way of working to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations. As a permanent employee, you will be war-positioned as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that socially important 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 every day and develop in their professions. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ Application Västra Götaland Region prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for special and particular reasons cannot register your information in a public system - contact the contact person for the respective announcement. To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you as a salesperson: We kindly but firmly decline direct contact with staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and other external actors and sellers of additional job announcements. Västra Götaland Region has contracted agreements.

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