Department Physician in Child Psychiatry

Join us in developing mental health care for children and families in Finland’s largest specialized child psychiatry unit. At HUS Child Psychiatry, you can work in a skilled multidisciplinary community and develop your specialist expertise according to your interests. HUS Child Psychiatry is seeking a department physician for a permanent public-service position in the Northern area. The work starts on 1 November 2026 or as agreed. The unit provides specialized child psychiatry services to the Vantaa and Kerava wellbeing services county and the Central Uusimaa wellbeing services county (Vantaa, Kerava, Nurmijärvi, Tuusula, Järvenpää, Mäntsälä and Hyvinkää). Your work location may be in Vantaa and/or Hyvinkää. In the role, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary child psychiatry team and be responsible for outpatient child psychiatry work in the Northern area. We offer the opportunity to influence the emphasis of your duties according to your interests and expertise. You will also participate in developing operations and supervising doctors in specialist training. At HUS Child Psychiatry, you will receive strong collegial support. What do we expect from you? We require specialist qualification in child psychiatry and substantial clinical experience in child, adolescent or adult psychiatry. We value an approach oriented towards development, a multidisciplinary approach, and good interaction and collaboration skills. We offer you: - A varied and meaningful specialist physician role - The opportunity to influence the content and focus of your work - A skilled and collegial multidisciplinary work community - Support from a broad network of child psychiatry specialists throughout the HUS area - Excellent training and work-supervision opportunities - The opportunity to participate in scientific research alongside clinical work - Flexible working practices, including remote appointments In the Division of Children’s and Adolescents’ Diseases, we are committed to continually improving the quality of care. Customer orientation, patient safety and high-quality operations are important to us. We will familiarise you with the role in accordance with the HUS induction programme, and we also offer good training opportunities. The position-specific salary for the department physician is €6,443.01 per month, with a possible experience supplement. The position includes on-call duties. The position has a four-month probationary period. Welcome to help develop and deliver high-quality child psychiatric care as part of Finland’s largest provider of specialized medical care. We want to hear what expertise and perspectives you would bring to child psychiatry. Please apply as soon as possible, no later than 27 October 2026. At HUS, you are part of the most impactful care! Eligibility requirements for the role Specialist qualification in a suitable specialty and, in addition, a licensed physician or permission to practise as a physician. For the position being advertised, the suitable specialty is child psychiatry. The language requirement is good spoken and written Finnish and satisfactory spoken and written Swedish, or good spoken and written Swedish and satisfactory spoken and written Finnish. Employees working in customer and patient premises must have vaccination protection in accordance with the Communicable Diseases Act. Employees working in healthcare units must provide a health-status assessment concerning pulmonary tuberculosis. The person appointed to the position must present a criminal record extract in accordance with section 6.2 of the Criminal Records Act. Contact information Further information is available from line director Leena Repokari (leena.repokari@hus.fi) and chief physician Juulia Paavonen (juulia.paavonen@hus.fi).