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Highly specialized pain rehabilitation is a regional outpatient service for individuals with long-term complex pain. The service is located at Danderyd Hospital and Huddinge Hospital area. The highly specialized pain rehabilitation in Huddinge is expanding its operations and is looking for two physiotherapists.

Welcome to us!

Our Employment Offer

At the highly specialized pain rehabilitation, we offer an interprofessional approach based on the biopsychosocial model, which is the core of our operations. We work in teams with patients who have complex long-term pain conditions.

We are looking for a physiotherapist for one of our existing teams and another physiotherapist for a new team that is starting up.

Our Operations

Patients are offered, after assessment, both a digital rehabilitation program and group rehabilitation on-site in our facilities. The goal of rehabilitation is to create conditions for lasting change together with patients suffering from long-term pain, enabling increased function, activity, and participation in society, as well as improved quality of life. We operate during daytime Monday to Friday and are also closed for three weeks in the summer.

As a Physiotherapist with us, you will be offered:

• An important role at our regional clinic that conducts highly specialized pain rehabilitation
• Contribute to method development within the organization related to goals, development, and results
• Opportunity to engage with current research, supervise students, and teach
• A position at a dynamic clinic with highly competent colleagues and a good collaborative climate
• A workplace with good development opportunities

You will be employed by Danderyd Hospital, but your workplace will be located at Huddinge Hospital area, where we already have a team. Meetings and other tasks also occur at the Danderyd Hospital unit.

Job Description

As a physiotherapist, you will work in a team together with a social worker, doctor, psychologist, occupational therapist, and nurse. You will be responsible for assessments and treatments individually and in groups in close collaboration with other professionals in the team.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is a licensed physiotherapist. Experience in pain rehabilitation and working in teams with other professionals, preferably within the rehabilitation medicine field, is an advantage. Ongoing/completed specialist training and experience in evaluation work and research are also meritorious.

Personal Qualities

We are looking for someone who is proactive and structured with good collaborative skills and a strong interest in working with patients with long-term pain.

Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis, and recruitment may close before the application deadline.

When recruiting staff for positions that may handle children and/or adolescents up to 18 years old, we obtain extracts from the criminal and suspicion register prior to potential employment.

About Danderyd Hospital

Danderyd Hospital is one of Sweden's largest acute hospitals, surrounded by nature, water, and subway access. We employ around 4500 staff and welcome 2000 students each year. Here, the pulse of emergency care meets high-quality care and close attention. We support each other and provide you with the opportunity to grow and develop from student to experienced employee. Those who care for patients and wish to drive patient-centered research will thrive here. Danderyd Hospital has its own institution at Karolinska Institute, which means a comprehensive mission in clinical research and basic education. This mission is strongly integrated with clinical operations and the hospital's development. We aim to be a workplace you long for.

As of January 1, 2025, Danderyd Hospital will be an administration within the Acute Hospital Board of Region Stockholm.

About the Operations

The Rehabilitation Medicine University Clinic Stockholm at Danderyd Hospital has a regional mission. We conduct highly specialized rehabilitation of patients in the areas of brain injury, chronic pain, post-polio, neuromuscular diseases, adult habilitation, and insurance medicine. The Rehabilitation Medicine University Clinic Stockholm is accredited by CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities).

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