Specialist in Affective Psychiatry – Sweden (Sweden)

We are looking for Specialist in Affective Psychiatrie in
Västra Götaland, Gothenburg Requirements for
education
Specialist in Psychiatry
Job description
You will work at an outpatient clinic in the affective team with
diagnoses such as general
anxiety and depression and must have experience in these areas.
Gender Dysphoria and Eating Disorders also have vacancies.
You will work Mon-Fri, 8.00 – 16.45.
On-call duty
On-call duty at the Psychiatric Emergency Department is included
after the first year of service with one shift per month, usually
as a stand-by duty.
Planned date of employment
As soon as possible after completing Swedish language course on
B2-level.
Description of the activity
As a university hospital, Affective Psychiatry’s mission is to
offer our patients investigation and treatment and to carry out
development work, education and research in collaboration with
Sahlgrenska Academy.
A prerequisite for successful work is close cooperation with our
care neighbours and user
organizations. Psychiatric care is shared between primary care and
specialist psychiatry
depending on patients‘ care needs.
The Affective Psychiatry is one of five adult psychiatric areas of
activity at Sahlgrenska
University Hospital that investigates and treats patients with:
– mood disorder (including bipolar disorder)
– neuropsychiatric conditions
– personality syndrome
– eating disorders
– anxiety disorder (including PTSD and obsessive-compulsive
disorder)
– fatigue syndrome with psychiatric co-morbidity (regional
assignment)
– complex self-harm behaviour (regional assignment)

Description of the clinic
The psychiatrists at Affective Psychiatry are divided into 3
different teams: Affective,
Neuropsychiatry, Personality Disorders – you will be included in
the Affective team.

Organisation
Affective Psychiatry consists of 10 full-day departments and 10
psychiatric outpatient
receptions staffed by specialist doctors, trainee doctors,
sub-doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists,
physiotherapists, nurses and administrative staff.
Patients in ongoing treatment: 11000
New referrals per month: 450
Clinic budget: SEK 580 million
Number of employees: 650

Broad career paths
Psychiatry is a discipline that offers many different career paths,
which provides good
opportunities for psychiatrists to find the career path that best
suits them. For example, you can choose the leadership path and
become a doctor chief, health care unit chief doctor, operations
manager or study director for AT and ST doctors (trainees).
You can also specialize in a certain area, such as bipolar disorder
or self-harm behaviour.
Another group is doing research careers, while others are working
with a broad category of patients with different types of
psychiatric diagnoses.

Salary
Once you have reached B2-level, you move to Gothenburg and start a
trial period as an
assistant doctor with 50% language training and 50% clinical
introduction until C1-level is
reached and legitimation is obtained. Salary during this time is
SEK 46,000 / month. After the probation period it will raise
continuously up to 59-70.000 SEK or even more.

Services offered by the employer
• During the personal visit which is part of the interview process,
the cost of travel and
accommodation is financed
• Swedish course on C1-level, financial support during the course
(the amount is topic of
negotiation)
• Informal help during the application for Swedish license to
practice, supervision of the
process
• Assistance in finding school/kindergarten for the children
• Assistance in the organization of moving and in
apartment-seeking

Documents required for application:
– Professional English CV in which your experience (number of
completed
examinations/surgeries, with differentiation between pre-and
post-specialization
experience) are detailed
– Cover letter
– scanned version of license to practice in home country with
English translation (no official needed)
– scanned version of medical and specialist certificates with
English translation (no official
needed)

Eine Stellenanzeige von Evropa Konsult GmbH

Ansprechpartner: Penka Vasileva (personal@evropakonsult.de)