Authorized psychologist at Bakkehuset, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Roskilde

An authorized psychologist is wanted to take care of therapeutic courses with children and young people with suicidal thoughts in the Clinic for Suicide Prevention for children and young people, Region Zealand. The position is available from 1 June 2025 or by agreement.
In the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Region Zealand, we strengthen efforts to prevent suicide among children and young people. The Clinic for Suicide Prevention is located in the cross-sectoral unit, Bakkehuset, and is anchored in a professional understanding, where there is a focus on different contexts around young people in distress.
We are looking for you, who is a psychologist and who will bring your expertise into play in individual conversation sessions with children and young people with suicidal thoughts and their parents.
With us, you get the opportunity to work across sectors and contribute with specific psychological expertise in a team collaboration that requires a focus on complex problems.
The target group in the suicide prevention function is children and young people with suicidal thoughts and behavior where there is no suspicion of serious underlying psychopathology. We do not carry out investigations, but focus on the therapeutic work with an emphasis on being able to quickly and flexibly help the individual young person and their family.
At Bakkehuset, we have a super good working environment with a focus on interdisciplinary. In addition to psychologists, we have nurses, pedagogues, doctors, social workers and school consultants who all contribute to creating the best help for our patients.
We are a competently composed team, all of whom are development-oriented. We are inspired by the AMBIT approach in the most complex cases (Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment) and work with a mentalizing approach to our children/young people, families and the network.
We need you who would like to work therapeutically with children and young people and want to help develop and manage our suicide prevention function. In the therapeutic work with the children, we start from the needs of the individual and we use, among other things, crisis plans and the involvement of parents/relatives. In the long term, you will help start up and facilitate group courses.
Competences for experienced psychologist or preferably specialist psychologist:

Licensed psychologist with experience of working with young people, preferably in a child and youth psychiatric context.
Motivation to talk to young people in dissatisfaction and ability to meet the young people where they stand in their lives.
If possible, trained specialist psychologist in child and youth psychiatry
Ability and experience in working independently as well as in a team
Process- and result-oriented in relation to the task
Organizational insight and understanding

Tasks:

Conversation process with children and young people with suicidal thoughts and their families
Development and implementation of the Clinic for Suicide Prevention
Bring psychological knowledge into play, in relation to the primary task, and to the interdisciplinary team
Work with crisis plans
Participate in group courses with young people with suicidal thoughts and group courses for relatives of children and young people with suicidal thoughts.
Collaboration with the child and youth psychiatric clinics in the region
Participate in network meetings and collaboration meetings under municipal auspices
Advice and guidance for families and other networks
Teaching tasks according to detailed planning

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Bakkehuset started as a rate pool project in 2019. The project is permanently done as of 1.1.2022 and has since been an integrated unit in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Region Zealand.
The intention is to strengthen cross-sector efforts for children, young people and their parents/network when there is no immediate need for hospitalization. The unit can uncover the child's/young person's overall situation, with a view to creating the most relevant efforts in a coordinated process, with possibly ongoing action plans in the municipality/psychiatry/general practice.
The tasks in the Bakkehuset vary in the individual patient processes and involve direct patient contact as well as contact with families and networks. It can be contact and advice for, for example, places of residence etc.
The effort in Bakkehuset is based on a mentalisation-based network approach, where we will work to strengthen the integration of the effort in relation to complicated cases where there are both psychiatric and social issues.
Employees in the Bakkehuset can, depending on the need, make home visits, visits to places of placement, telephone calls, video meetings, written briefings or hold cross-sectoral meetings, where the current overview is discussed and coordinated with the home municipality or other relevant parties.
We offer
you

An exciting psychologist/specialist psychologist position in a completely unique unit, where flexibility, high professionalism and a focus on the children's perspective are at the center of the work with and around the children, young people and their families.
Flexible workplace with space for homework and influence on own organization of working time.
A dynamic and committed workplace, where we do what needs to be done and are happy to take an extra step for the children, the young people and their families, so that they feel helped further in their course
Opportunity to influence the development of the function for suicide prevention in collaboration with specialist doctors and psychologists

Additional information
You are very welcome to contact senior physician Helene Johannesen, tel. [phone removed] or head nurse at Bakkehuset, Pernille K. Lindgren, tel. [phone removed].
Salary and terms of employment
Salary according to the applicable collective agreement.
Employment is subject to satisfactory child and criminal records being available at the latest upon joining. Employment is also conditional on receipt of a satisfactory criminal record for public use
Application
Application with attached documentation for education and previous employment. Applications are sent electronically via 'apply for the job'.

Application deadline: 13 April 2025
Employment interviews are held in weeks 16 and 17
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Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry covers the entire Zealand Region. There are approx. 185,000 children and young people. The department consists of 8 clinical sections, and the individual sections have independent day-to-day management, who all report to the department management. There are approx. 350 employees. The department management and management secretariat are located in Roskilde.

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About Psychiatry
Psychiatry Region Zealand is a treatment psychiatry that consists of a number of inpatient units and outpatient units around the region. We take care of psychiatric evaluation and treatment as well as the emergency duty in Region Zealand.
We develop and convey a wide range of psychiatric services to the region's citizens, and we have an anonymous counseling service which is open to anyone who needs knowledge or advice about mental illness. We conduct extensive research with the involvement of both patients and relatives. We see it as an important task to train the employees of the future, so we also undertake a large training task.