Physiotherapist at Gävle Municipality

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with great opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal city of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for someone who wants to make Gävle even better together with us!

Governance and Support Gävle is responsible for the strategic development at an overarching level close to politics. Our employees work with the whole and coordinate the work that is common to all sectors within Gävle Municipality. Together we make Gävle sustainable and developing!

JOB DESCRIPTION

Gävle Municipality has gathered all licensed staff within one office, the Health and Medical Care office. We are looking for a temporary physiotherapist while the regular staff undergoes a transfer training for our employees within Gävle Municipality. Therefore, we are now seeking a motivated and committed physiotherapist to strengthen our health and medical care organization to provide the best care for our patients. Together we work for a holistic view of the patient and make Gävle health-promoting.

In your role as a physiotherapist, you will be responsible for assessing, planning, and implementing physiotherapeutic treatments for patients with various needs. You will work preventively, and with rehabilitative, habilitative, and compensatory measures within home care and at care and nursing homes.

As a physiotherapist, you will collaborate and be part of a team around the care recipient together with other positions, such as occupational therapist, nurse, and other professional care staff. You will guide, instruct, and provide training to other staff.

We look forward to welcoming a competent physiotherapist who shares our passion for creating a positive impact on people's lives and contributing to an outstanding care environment.

In accordance with Gävle Municipality's values, you have a good attitude, a strong ability to collaborate, and care about high quality in your work.

Interviews may take place continuously during the application period, so please submit your application today! Warm welcome! The positions are scheduled for daytime. The position is a temporary position with a chance of extension.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for a licensed physiotherapist. A driver's license and driving experience are required for the position.

We seek someone with good collaboration skills and the ability to plan and organize your work. The work as a physiotherapist is varied, which requires you to adapt your perspective and approach to changing circumstances and to implement given guidelines from decisions into action. You should work with a holistic view of the patient and have genuine empathy towards our patients.

To succeed in your role, you have a positive attitude towards working in a team with other positions within the care team, where you contribute your own ideas and arguments. Understanding other people's life situations is natural for you as you instill confidence, create trust, and reliability. We will offer mentorship and guidance to help you succeed in your role with us.

We look forward to welcoming an engaged and competent physiotherapist to our team to continue providing high-quality care services to our patients together. The position is a temporary part-time/full-time position with a chance of extension.

OTHER

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager, do not submit your application digitally.

If you are applying for a part-time position with us, there is a decision within Gävle Municipality that allows you, as a permanent employee, to request to work full-time. Such a request may mean that you may need to perform other tasks than your regular ones.

Gävle Municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. If you therefore speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it can be an asset.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle Municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request not to contact media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.