Cardiology Nurse for Arrhythmia Lab

The Cardiology Clinic at the University Hospital in Linköping is part of the Heart Center (HC).

We provide health and medical care in the field of heart diseases for adults of all ages and offer highly specialized care to Jönköping, Kalmar, and Östergötland, as well as national specialty care. We have a large cardiology operation consisting of several units: Heart Intensive Care Unit (HIA), acute care cardiology unit (Ward C117), pre- and post-operative unit (ÖVA and Ward C118), the catheterization unit, and outpatient clinic. We care for acute patients from the emergency department and other hospitals in the region.

Do you want to join our team and provide the best possible cardiac care? We take pride in what we do and have a very unique atmosphere. To maintain our good working environment, we are now looking for a nurse for the arrhythmia lab.

Our Offer

For the life ahead. Region Östergötland has high ambitions and a responsible mission. It’s about health and care, about the development of our region, and about those who live and stay here. We want to continue to be at the forefront, with care, research, and education. This means daring to think anew – and having the best employees. Therefore, we offer unique opportunities for further learning and invest in modern environments with effective systems and tools. Many of us meet patients and relatives, while others create the conditions for life-saving interventions. With us, fantastic people work towards the same goal – to make a real difference, and for the life ahead.

At the cardiology department, we work “for the heart with the heart” where we care for each other and have a supportive and welcoming culture with a good atmosphere and a positive questioning climate. We offer a varied job with good development opportunities and work in true team spirit in interdisciplinary teams. The currently advertised position involves work within our arrhythmia lab, including both ablation and pacemaker operations. The introduction to the interventional operations is about 6 months if you lack prior experience in the field.

Here you can read about our career ladder for nurses and also about your benefits with us.

Job Description

The arrhythmia lab consists of three intervention rooms, one pacemaker lab, and two ablation labs. As a nurse, you will perform all tasks within the operation such as patient care, electrophysiological stimulations, diagnostics, sterile assisting, perioperative measurements, and programming of pacemaker devices.

To ensure competence and experience exchange, we work with rotation between our different operations, outpatient and inpatient care; how that rotation will look for you will be agreed upon together.

We care about you as an employee feeling secure with us and therefore offer you an individual introduction. If you wish, there is an opportunity to have a mentor, and we have continuous follow-up conversations with the manager/team leader, where the introduction is followed up and the individual development plan is planned.

We want to see you grow in your role and feel that there are good development opportunities here with us; therefore, we offer opportunities for further education with maintained salary. We also strive to regularly offer internal training. Knowledge transfer also occurs through our workplace meetings. The clinic is a prominent research clinic, and we view positively employees who wish to conduct research.

Work Group

The work group consists of nurses, nursing assistants, and doctors who all work in interdisciplinary teams around the patient. Within the group, there is good collaboration and cohesion. If you are curious about our operations and want to meet us, you are welcome to visit. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about the position or our operations.

About You

We are looking for a licensed nurse. Experience in cardiology is meritorious. As you work in constant dialogue with patients and colleagues, it is a requirement that you have good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written.

To thrive and fit in with us, your personal qualities are important. As a person, you are secure and stable, have an easy time adapting and adjusting to different situations. You enjoy being part of an interdisciplinary team with the patient in focus, where all professional categories learn from each other. Furthermore, you have a good empathetic ability, are meticulous, and care about working with quality in a goal-oriented manner.

Application and Employment

We work with ongoing selection, so please submit your application as soon as possible. Before employment in a patient-facing role within Region Östergötland, you will need to fill out a form (https://ledsys.lio.se/Document/Document?DocumentNumber=54500).

Warm welcome to submit your application! If you need help registering in the system, contact customer service Support and Service, 010-103 60 00, during office hours.

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