Specialist (M/w/d) Psychiatry

**Specialist (m/w/d) Psychiatry in Sweden**:
**We are looking for Specialist in Psychiatry in** **Middle-Sweden**

**Requirements for education**

Specialist certificate in Psychiatry from an EU-country or at least three years relevant work experience on the field of psychiatry in any EU-country (together with the medical diploma).

**Required experience**

Newly graduated specialists are also welcome.

**Planned date of employment**

By agreement.

**Description of the departments and the jobs**

1. Round-the-clock care

Work during the day as a specialist doctor in a psychiatric inpatient ward with 10 beds. The department’s mission is aimed at psychiatric intensive care (PIVA) but also general psychiatric conditions. A large part of the care includes compulsory treatment and psychosis care. As a specialist doctor, the doctor makes rounds together with a nurse and/or carer. There are also assistant doctors placed in the department. We attach great importance to the suitability to supervise/be a good support to assistant medical colleagues/ST doctors in the role of on-call/department doctor. The job is a full-time position where you usually work 5 days and a total of 40 hours per week, 8am-5pm with a 60-minute unpaid lunch break.

In addition to departmental work, standby duty is included. The emergency line is staffed all weekdays by specialist doctors between 4.30pm and 8am and on weekends, Fridays from 4.30pm until Monday morning 8am. The standby sessions are 16.30-08. Saturday and Sunday 08-08 (24 hours a day) or 08.00-20.00/20.00-08.00 (a 12-hour shift, either day or night). The frequency of preparedness sessions varies, but usually it can be about 1-2 sessions per week.

2. Round-the-clock care/psychosis clinic

Work during the day as a specialist doctor in a psychiatric inpatient ward with 13 beds. The department’s mission is aimed at psychotic conditions but also general psychiatric conditions, and it also includes compulsory care in a closed care ward. As a specialist doctor, the doctor makes rounds together with a nurse and/or carer. There are also assistant doctors placed in the department. The closed care ward and the psychosis clinic work closely together and belong to the same unit. This means that as a doctor you have a varied assignment where you sometimes also work at the reception with planned reception visits. It may involve follow-ups of known psychotic patients, but it may also involve assessment of newly diagnosed patients. We attach great importance to the suitability to supervise/be a good support to assistant medical colleagues/ST doctors in the role of on-call/department doctor.

The job is a full-time position where you usually work 5 days and a total of 40 hours per week, 8am-5pm with a 60-minute unpaid lunch break. In addition to departmental work, standby duty is included. The preparedness line is staffed all weekdays by specialist doctors between 4.30pm and 8am and on weekends, Fridays from 4.30pm until Monday morning 8am. The standby sessions are 16.30-08. Saturday and Sunday 08-08 (24 hours a day) or 08.00-20.00/20.00-08.00 (a 12-hour shift, either day or night). The frequency of preparedness sessions varies, but usually it can be about 1-2 sessions per week.

3. General psychiatric clinics in the region

Daytime work between 8-17 with planned reception visits. The above clinics deal with general psychiatric conditions such as anxiety, depression, personality syndrome, psychosis, co-morbidity, etc. Specialist doctors attend/lead team conferences, referral reviews and work consultatively with other care providers/other staff. The receptions also have emergency services where specialists can see patients in a more acute condition and assess whether a medical certificate needs to be issued, assess whether a patient needs admission to our inpatient care or needs another type of follow-up. We attach great importance to the suitability to supervise/be a good support to medical colleagues/ST doctors in the role of back-up/reception doctor.

The job is a full-time position where you usually work 5 days and a total of 40 hours per week, 8am-5pm with a 60-minute unpaid lunch break. In addition to departmental work, standby duty is included. The emergency line is staffed all weekdays by specialist doctors between 4.30pm and 8am and on weekends, Fridays from 4.30pm until Monday morning 8am. The standby sessions are 16.30-08. Saturday and Sunday 08-08 (24 hours a day) or 08.00-20.00/20.00-08.00 (a 12-hour shift, either day or night). The frequency of preparedness sessions varies, but usually it can be about 1-2 sessions per week.

**Salary**

By agreement.

The average salary for psychiatrists in Sweden is 80-88.000 SEK. However, during the introductory period and until you will not be able to work independently and will not have solid language skills, the salary temporarily will be lower. During the first six months 40-45.000, after it, as a specialist, 65-70.000 SEK which will be r