Assistant Nurse for Day Care for Children and Youth

We are expanding our day care for children and youth and are therefore looking for several new employees to join our team.

Are you an assistant nurse with experience in eating disorder care and child and adolescent psychiatry? Then this is the job for you!

The Stockholm Center for Eating Disorders (SCÄ) is one of the largest specialist clinics in the world for patients with eating disorders and receives patients of all ages. We have a well-developed operation with outpatient care, day care, and inpatient care for both adults, children, and adolescents. Today we have about 250 employees, we have expanded significantly during 2024 and will continue to do so in 2025. From March 2025, all three of our inpatient care departments will be located at Danderyd Hospital while outpatient care remains in Södermalm in Stockholm.

Please read more about our operations here (#).

Day care for children and youth is a unit that works with day care and intensive outpatient care for children, adolescents, and their relatives. A large part of the treatment takes place in group format.

Job Responsibilities:

As an assistant nurse with us, your tasks include both psychiatric and somatic nursing work. The psychiatric care focuses on group treatment for families where the child has been affected by an eating disorder, with an emphasis on strengthening the parents in their role. The work includes meal support, anxiety management, daily conversations, and the most common treatment method is family-based therapy. You will also perform somatic examinations as needed.

You will work in a treatment team with nurses, psychologists, doctors, and social workers. Important parts of the job include participating in educational meals for the patients and being involved in various groups such as family, youth, parent, sibling, or relative groups.

Your tasks also include following up on the clinic's quality work, and documentation is done in the journal system Take Care.

Employment Type:

Permanent employment. Full-time, 40 hours/week, Monday-Friday.

Qualifications:

We are looking for someone who is a trained assistant nurse, with a certificate of protected professional title from the National Board of Health and Welfare. You have experience working with patients with eating disorders, either from somatic, psychiatric, or specialized eating disorder care. Step 1 competence in family therapy or CBT, experience in family work, and conducting group conversations are considered meritorious.

We also consider it meritorious if you have completed assistant nurse training with a focus on psychiatric care and have experience with patients with autism spectrum disorders or self-harming behavior, as well as if you are a CPR or Bergen instructor. Likewise, previous practical experience with somatic examinations and knowledge of the journal system TakeCare.

Personal Qualities:

You have a genuine interest in people. You use conversation as a tool in patient work and focus on patient-centered care. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability, and we would like to see that you are a person who shows commitment and initiative in your work. You are unpretentious, loyal, and have good social skills. You care about the work environment for the team and want to create a pleasant environment for everyone. As the unit is under expansion, there is a need for flexibility and a willingness to participate in the creation process of the unit. You are responsible, secure, and structured.

Our Benefits:

SLSO creates good conditions for you as an employee to develop and become really good in your profession. As an employee, you have benefits such as free healthcare up to the high-cost protection, extra compensation during parental leave, occupational pension, and insurance. We also apply flexible working hours, wellness hours, and 5000 SEK in wellness benefits per calendar year.

Read more about our employer offerings here (#).

Please attach a certificate of protected professional title from the National Board of Health and Welfare with your application. Interviews are conducted continuously during the application period. Welcome with your application today! The position will be filled provided that it is not needed for internal relocation, according to applicable regulations.

For patient-related work within the Stockholm County Healthcare Area:

• background checks will be applied before employment decisions according to applicable guidelines.
• employees who will have patient contact must undergo a new employee health examination, according to applicable directives, which is done through occupational health care before employment.
• in addition to Swedish professional license, good knowledge of the Swedish language corresponding to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) is required. The same requirements apply to non-licensed personnel with patient contact.

The Stockholm County Healthcare Area (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We offer healthcare in the Stockholm Region's management within psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, urgent care, somatic specialist care, habilitation, and health as well as assistive devices. In collaboration with Karolinska Institute, we conduct research, education, and development. https://www.slso.regionstockholm.se/ (https://www.slso.regionstockholm.se/).

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