Job Advertisement: Nurse for Home Healthcare in Gävle

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 you who want to make Gävle even better together with us!

The employees of Welfare Gävle make Gävle safer for children, youth, and the elderly, persons with disabilities, and people in vulnerable situations. We also work to create the best conditions for adult learning and personal development. We offer future professions that both challenge and develop, and you will work on what is truly important. Together, we make Gävle safer!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Do you enjoy performing medical tasks and providing care to patients in their homes? Many patients are unable to travel to healthcare facilities and need you, as a nurse, to come to their homes instead. This is to provide care based on the individual's needs. Would you like to have a meaningful and important role for our patients enrolled in home healthcare? How exciting! Apply for the position with us!

We are looking for inspired, engaged, and skilled nurses who want to work in home healthcare. As a nurse in home healthcare, you enable patients to receive medical care and nursing at home, allowing them to stay at home in a safe and dignified manner. We work in teams with doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, home care providers, and other caregivers. Additionally, you will have close communication with the patient and their relatives. All with the aim of providing good and close care. As a nurse in home healthcare, you will have a central and important role for our enrolled patients.

Your job responsibilities include:

• Performing health and medical interventions for patients in home healthcare
• Being responsible for nursing and conducting medical assessments
• Working in a team around the patient with, among others, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and doctors
• Planning and conducting home visits and follow-ups
• Guiding and delegating nursing tasks to nursing staff and students
• Documenting in Treserva and registering information in other operational systems
• Working preventively to promote the patient's health and well-being
• Working in our consulting operations during evenings and weekends

We are looking for someone who:

Are you ready to make a real difference for our patients every day? With us, you will not only have a meaningful job, but you will also work with engaged colleagues where you have the opportunity to grow, develop, and contribute to providing world-class care. Submit your application today and become part of our competent team!

We look forward to welcoming you to our team!

The position is primarily daytime work, but the schedule also includes evening and weekend shifts. You will then work in our consulting operations, which includes the municipality's care and nursing homes, home healthcare, as well as service and group homes within LSS and social psychiatry.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who are a licensed nurse and have worked as a nurse for at least two years. You should have good knowledge of the Swedish language in speech, writing, and reading comprehension, as the job requires documentation and other administrative tasks. A driver's license for a manual transmission vehicle and driving experience is required as you will be driving to patients' homes.

It is an advantage if you have experience in municipal health and medical care and if you are familiar with the systems Treserva, TES, Lifecare, NPÖ, and Pascal.

To succeed in the role of nurse, you are flexible and can quickly adapt and make decisions based on the patient and their needs. You work safely with patients, take initiative, and are responsible for ensuring that your tasks are completed. You are a structured person who sees what needs to be prioritized, is efficient, and uses resources to achieve the best results. Furthermore, you have good communication skills and adapt your language to the recipient. You are confident in your role as a nurse.

As we work in teams in close collaboration with patients and relatives, you are skilled at creating and maintaining good relationships, both internally and externally. With good teamwork skills, you handle work situations with sound judgment and high integrity. You inspire trust, create confidence, and spread calm. You see opportunities in changes.

We genuinely look forward to your application; together we can create a better future for our patients in home healthcare.

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To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle municipality and to facilitate 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. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competence requirements, it can be an advantage.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle municipality has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.