Professor of Psychiatry combined with employment as at least specialist physician in psychiatry at Stockholm Health Care Services

- with focus on research

Do you want to contribute to better health for all?

The National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention (NASP) conducts suicide research at a high international level from biological, psychological, social, and public health perspectives, and collaborates with leading international and national groups in suicide research. NASP is a collaborative centre organised under two principal organisations: the Stockholm County Healthcare Area (SLSO) at Region Stockholm, and Karolinska Institutet, the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME).

The employment at LIME will be combined with employment as a specialist-qualified psychiatrist within the Stockholm County Healthcare Area (SLSO), distributed as 30 percent at SLSO and 70 percent at Karolinska Institutet (KI).

Description of the subject area
Psychiatry is the medical specialty and academic discipline that studies the origins, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illnesses. The subject integrates biological, psychological, and social perspectives to understand and treat mental illness. The advertised employment is focused on suicide prevention, an interdisciplinary field with a focus on reducing suicide and suicidal behavior through research, intervention, and policy. The field integrates perspectives from psychiatry, psychology and public health, to address suicide as a complex phenomenon requiring multilevel approaches—from individual clinical care to population-based interventions and policy initiatives. The announced position as Professor of Psychiatry is aimed at a psychiatrist with experience in the field of suicide prevention from the perspective of both, the public health and the clinical perspective.

Your mission

The advertised employment is aimed at a psychiatrist with experience in suicide prevention from both a public health perspective and a clinical perspective. You will primarily work with research focused on understanding the suicidal process and its relation to mental disorders as well as other determinants and risk factors for suicidality, with the goal of developing new suicide preventive interventions. You are also expected to teach at undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels, including supervision of doctoral students and degree projects, as well as contribute to course responsibility and programme development within relevant educational programmes (with subject areas of suicide or psychiatry) at KI, such as the Medical Programme, or other relevant profession programmes and courses. 

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for an employment as Professor with focus on research the applicant must have demonstrated excellent scientific skills and very good pedagogical skills.

For employment as Professor at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements are stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure and these are applied in relation to established profile of employment:

See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

Further eligibility requirements

It is a requirement that you have completed 10 weeks of courses on teaching in higher education, as indicated in the recommendations of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institution.

The employment will be combined with an employment as a specialist physician, assistant chief physician or chief physician in Psychiatry at the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at Stockholm Healthcare Services and therefore you must have a Swedish MD-license with specialist competence in Psychiatry as well as fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

Assessment criteria

The Professorship has a focus on research. The assessment will weight qualifications as follows: scientific skills (3), pedagogical skills (2), leadership and collaboration skills (3), and clinical skills (1).

For employment as Professor at Karolinska Institutet, the assessment criteria stated are in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure and these are applied in relation to established profile of employment:

See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

It is furthermore meritorious that you have demonstrated

• Documented experience of academic leadership, including for example personnel responsibility, departmental management, or strategic management of research infrastructure
• Collaboration with international actors in psychiatry and suicide research (for example World Psychiatric Association, International Association of Suicide Research etc) and international research groups

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the applicants in relation to the subject area, Karolinska Institutet will determine which of them has the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement. 

Location: Solna 

National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention | Karolinska Institutet

Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME) | Karolinska Institutet

Application

Your application must contain the following documents: a cover letter as well as a resumé and a qualifications portfolio including a description of your research plan, both presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s template (http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio). You may change or add to your application at any time up to and including the application deadline date. After the deadline, the process closes, and no amendment or addition can be made to your application.

The applications will be reviewed by external reviewers, most often both national and international. For that reason, we prefer that the documents are in English.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

For the clinical employment at Region Stockholm Healthcare Services

The clinical employment at Region Stockholm Healthcare Services requires specialist certificate(s) in Psychiatry to be attached to the application.

The level of clinical employment (chief physician, assistant chief physician, specialist physician) is determined by Region Stockholm Healthcare Services before the decision of employment is made.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Want to make a difference? Join us and contribute to better health for all!

1. Sabine Koch, [email protected]
2. Gergö Hadlaczky, [email protected]

1. Taher Darreh-Shori, SACO, [email protected]
2. Bodil Moberg , OFR/ST, [email protected]
3. Elizabeth Valenzuela, SEKO, [email protected]