Do you want to be part of shaping the future of care for children and young people? As a specialist physician in child and adolescent psychiatry at our clinic in Farsta, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in young patients' lives while developing your professional skills.
BUP Farsta is an outpatient clinic in Farsta for children and adolescents aged 7-17 years. The clinic is staffed by psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses, and administrators with specialized child and adolescent psychiatric expertise. We work interprofessionally, in close collaboration with guardians and, when needed, with schools, social services, and other care partners. Our work is guided by BUP Stockholm's process maps to support assessment, investigation, and treatment.
BUP Farsta handles the core assignment of specialized child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient care and offers FBT for eating disorders as a subspecialized intervention. Experience in eating disorder care, family-based work, parent-directed interventions, and group-based support interventions is therefore particularly relevant for this position.
Job Description
As a specialist physician, you play a central role in contributing medical expertise to daily child psychiatric work. You are responsible for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, including medical interventions and neuropsychiatric investigations. The role includes actively contributing to the development and improvement of the clinic's routines and methods, with the goal of ensuring patient-safe care of high quality.
Qualifications
We are looking for someone who is a specialist physician with specialization in child and adolescent psychiatry or psychiatry, approved to work in Sweden. You must have the competence to investigate, assess, and be responsible for patients' medical treatment. You have solid knowledge in diagnostics and pharmacological treatment. Experience in supervision is a merit, as the role includes supervising ST physicians.
Personal Qualities
The person we are looking for should have a strong interest in our patient group and good collaboration skills with colleagues. As a person, you need to be stable and clear. To succeed in the role, it is also important that you are structured and flexible. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.
What We Offer
BUP Stockholm works systematically with management and leadership development to create a good and sustainable work environment where everyone can have a voice and feel seen. There are good conditions for everyone to develop and become really skilled in their profession. We offer benefits such as favorable occupational pension terms, opportunity for salary exchange, free publicly funded healthcare, extra compensation during parental leave, and wellness benefits (5000 kr/year).
Other Information
This is a permanent full-time position. Work is conducted during daytime hours, Monday-Friday. Start date by agreement.
Interviews will be held continuously throughout the application period.
We look forward to your application!
About Us
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Stockholm (BUP) offers specialized psychiatric care for children and young people under 18 years of age in Stockholm County. We are part of Stockholm County Healthcare Area, a care provider within Region Stockholm. Together, BUP employs over 1,200 staff who meet over 22,000 children, young people, and their families each year.
The position is filled on the condition that it does not need to be used for internal redeployment, according to applicable regulations.
For patient-facing work within Stockholm County Healthcare Area:
- background checks are conducted before employment decisions according to SLSO's overarching guidelines for background checks at employment.
- employees who will have patient contact must undergo a new employee health examination, according to applicable directives, which is conducted through occupational health services before employment.
- in addition to Swedish professional license, good knowledge of Swedish language is required at level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The same requirement is advisory for non-licensed staff with patient contact.
Stockholm County Healthcare Area (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest care providers with 11,600 employees. We offer health and medical care within Region Stockholm in the areas of psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, acute care clinics, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, and assistive devices. In collaboration with the Karolinska Institute, we conduct research, education, and development. Read more about SLSO here.
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BUP Farsta is an outpatient clinic in Farsta for children and adolescents aged 7-17 years. The clinic is staffed by psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses, and administrators with specialized child and adolescent psychiatric expertise. We work interprofessionally, in close collaboration with…