Region Västerbotten

Region Västerbotten works to ensure that good health and sustainable development strengthen each other. We take responsibility for equitable welfare and for research and innovation to yield results.

About NHHC

At the Neuro-Head-Neck Center (NHHC), approximately 650 employees work to investigate, treat, and rehabilitate diseases and injuries of the nervous system, brain, ears, nose, throat, and jaw. The center is a regional clinic providing highly specialized care for patients from the entire northern healthcare area. Research, education, and development are also conducted here. Our operations are accredited by CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation).

The Hearing Center

The Hearing Center is part of NHHC with clinics in Umeå, Skellefteå, and Lycksele. We are a regional clinic and should operate from a regional perspective, utilizing the combined resources as optimally as possible for the entire county. The Hearing Centers work with diagnostic measurements and fitting of hearing aids and cochlear implants. Technical hearing care provides technical support to hearing aid users and hearing technology aids for home and school.

We are looking for an audiotechnician

We are now looking for a new colleague to the Hearing Center in Umeå who wants to come and work with us in Technical Hearing Care.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As an audiotechnician with us, you provide important service and enable interventions that affect many.

You will work independently with installations/repairs of hearing technology equipment in homes. The work also involves technical support to patients, audiologists, and healthcare staff, as well as assisting patients/customers at the patient reception in the Hearing Center's workshop.

The work involves independent planning of tasks and contact with patients.

QUALIFICATIONS

We prefer that you have a scientific/technical high school competence in electronics or equivalent education/experience. It is an advantage if you are a high school engineer.

The work requires a high sense of service and the ability to adapt to the needs of the organization. It is important to be able to prioritize among tasks and to have an easy time collaborating with others. Good language skills in Swedish, both spoken and written, are a requirement. For us, it is a given that you have a good attitude towards patients, colleagues, and other actors we collaborate with.

We will place great emphasis on personal qualities such as commitment to the patient, ability to collaborate, as well as the ability to plan and work independently.

The employment is a temporary position for 6 months, with a possibility of extension.

OTHER

Read more about our benefits for those who work with us on our website here (https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner).

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, therefore we welcome applicants from different backgrounds.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly ask for no contact from media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply, please contact the recruiting manager and then send your application documents by post.