Job Description

Psychiatric treatment occurs either at a mental hospital, the District Psychiatric Center (DPS), in the Municipal Service or privately. The trend in recent years has been to avoid institution if possible. Integration into the community has been the main objective. The Coordination Reform emphasises increasing responsibility on municipalities and correspondingly less on hospital and specialist health services.
The organisation and the framework for the psychiatry profession in the Norwegian healthcare system is regulated by the law on municipal health services, law on special health services, law on patients’ rights and the law on the establishment and implementation of mental health services dated 2. July 1999. This replaced the previous law on mental healthcare.
Doctors, and in Norway also psychologists, are the only ones who have formal competence to examine, diagnose and treat mental disorders in humans. The Mental Health Act of 1999 gives psychiatrists and specialists in clinical psychology special rights (and duties) within the practice of psychiatry. In Norway, “mental health” is the official term for mental health services. Both psychiatrists (medical specialists) and psychologist specialists can be professionally responsible for the decision of the Norwegian psychiatric care, by the Mental Health Act.
In Norway, psychiatric care is based on mental health policy guidelines, which state that care should be preventive and given based on the users perspective. Further, it should be focused on voluntary treatment, and services shall promote independence, improved living conditions, quality of life and participation in ordinary life.

Before you apply, please go through the list of requirements below:
• To have a medical specialisation.
• To be an EU citizen or have long-term residency in any of the EU member countries.
If you are not an EU citizen and/or your title are not from EU countries:
• Your title must be recognised in any of the EU member countries.
• You must have worked at least 3 years in any of the EU member countries after your title had been recognised.