Psychologist Specialist

Do you want to join our team to provide children and adolescents with good mental health care in a meaningful, educational and exciting workday? Do you want to become our new colleague?

We have a vacant 100% permanent position as a psychologist specialist at BUP Hamar, section Stange/Løten.

BUP Hamar is a child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic in the Clinic for Mental Health and Addiction at Sykehuset Innlandet, and currently serves the municipalities Ringsaker, Hamar, Stange and Løten. We have close cooperation with other agencies in these municipalities, and with the other BUP units in the BUP Innlandet department. We offer specialized assessment and treatment of mental disorders to the child and adolescent population in the catchment area. We are an interdisciplinary outpatient clinic, and today have 61 employees divided into 6 sections who work closely together in teams to provide a good treatment offer to the patients, their families and our partners.

We who work at BUP Hamar are proud of our workplace, and work every day to ensure that it is useful and safe to be a patient with us.

The position requires a police certificate pursuant to the Health Personnel Act § 20a (applies to work with children and mental health).

Work tasks

The vacant position as psychologist specialist in section Stange/Løten is currently linked to assessment and treatment of particularly neurodevelopmental disorders and related conditions, and is intended as a natural part of the unit's matrix-organized neuro team. Over time, there may be service needs for changes in the professional focus of the position or section affiliation.

Main features of the work tasks are:

• Assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with various mental disorders
• Guidance to, and cooperation with, partners such as guardians, municipal support services, kindergartens and schools 
• Specialist tasks related to patient work, training of health personnel and training of patients/guardians
• Close cooperation with colleagues in interdisciplinary treatment sections

Qualifications

• Authorization as a specialist in clinical psychology, preferably with a specialization in children and adolescents, or a specialization in neuropsychology
• Experience from clinical work with children and adolescents, families and cooperating agencies
• Experience from previous work at child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics with neurodevelopmental disorders (BUP) is an advantage
• class B driving licence
• The applicant must be proficient in written and spoken Norwegian

Personal qualities

• Commitment to working with the mental health of children and young people
• Ability to work purposefully and systematically with change work
• Good ability to create effective collaborative relationships with and around children, guardians and cooperating agencies
• Good ability to structure one's own working day and the ability to continuously update documentation/records in accordance with applicable laws/regulations
• Flexibility and good collaboration skills
• Personal suitability will be given decisive weight

We offer

• Salary according to collective agreement 
• Good pension schemes in KLP
• Own insurance schemes
• Employment is subject to the terms set out in the applicable laws, collective agreements and regulations at any given time. 
• Company sports team SI Aktiv: https://www.siaktiv.no/
  

After the application deadline has expired, a public list of applicants will be prepared. If an applicant has ticked off a request not to appear on the public list of applicants, reference is made to the Freedom of Information Act § 25, second paragraph. The health trust will make an assessment of whether the criteria for being exempted from the applicant list are met. Please note that an application may become public even if the applicant has requested not to be entered on the applicant list. The applicant will in that case be notified of this.

Copies of relevant education and service certificates must be attached to the application. 

Contact information

Ingvild Svenkerud Aasen, Unit leader, +4748176067
June Edvardsen Sylju, Section leader, +4794496531

Workplace

Vangsvegen 43
2317 Hamar

Key information:

Employer: Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Reference no.: 5173751575
Position percentage: 100%
Permanent position
Application deadline: 18.10.2026