Psychologist, Youth Mental Health

VÄSTRA GÖTALANDSREGIONEN · plný úvazek

Smörhulegatan 2, Borås, Švédsko

Närhälsan offers high-quality primary care nearby. With hundreds of clinics throughout Västra Götaland, we are close to 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's Youth Mental Health team! As an employee at Närhälsan, you are offered various forms of development opportunities, for example through internal training and regular supervision. The workplace has great commitment and our three teams work closely together. Youth Mental Health continuously carries out many development and improvement projects for our patients' sake, and therefore you should have great flexibility and, of course, good teamwork spirit. 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. Please feel free to read more about the benefits and perks we offer at Närhälsan: Link to our website About the Work Youth Mental Health (UPH) has the mission to offer children, adolescents and their guardians with mental health issues early and adequate care. As a psychologist, you work in close collaboration with other primary care staff and have the opportunity to work at all our units in the area as well as partially digitally. You will work with assessing, diagnosing and treating children and adolescents with mental health issues and the importance of psychosocial factors, and based on that propose and implement 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 assignment. You will be an important contact for parental support both individually and in groups and also conduct other group treatments such as worry management, AFFEKT and ABC. We work based on primary care-oriented approaches, where the 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 in a primary care-oriented manner, 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 meritorious 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 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 organization's development work and contribute as a consultative resource in the daily interprofessional collaboration at the health center. A professional approach and good treatment of customers, patients and colleagues is self-evident for you. We also see that you live up to Närhälsan's core values: Reliable, Considerate and Forward-thinking. Other Information Business travel occurs; B-driver's license required. Interviews at the unit will be held on an ongoing basis. Welcome with 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 telephone interview. After that, the recruiting 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 situations as concretely 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 a larger whole. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives across Västra Götaland every day. You contribute to safe and equitable care as well as to a sustainable society where environment, culture and good communications create quality of life. We are in the midst of a 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 conscripted as part of our shared responsibility for societally important functions to 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 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 advertisement. 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