Occupational Therapist at Halmstad Municipality

Do you want to make a difference for people every day? As an occupational therapist in Halmstad Municipality, you help create conditions for our residents to live an independent and meaningful life.

Through your work in home healthcare, you contribute to health, safety, and quality of life – becoming an important part of our shared goal to provide the best possible support to those who need us.

Your Responsibilities

In the role of occupational therapist, you will work closely with patients, relatives, and colleagues to promote health and enhance functional ability. Your tasks will include:

• Assessing activity ability and assistive device needs
• Prescribing and testing assistive devices as well as writing certificates
• Guiding and teaching nursing staff
• Providing advice and support to patients and relatives
• Participating in teamwork and contributing to the development of the organization

Your Experience

Requirements:

• License as an occupational therapist
• Driver's license for manual transmission
• Good computer skills
• Ability to structure and plan your work
• Good communication skills in Swedish, both spoken and written

Meritorious:

• Experience in home healthcare or similar services
• Knowledge of assistive device management and ADL assessments

We place great emphasis on engagement and personal suitability.

Who You Are

To succeed in this role, you need to be:

• Proactive – You take initiative when needed and drive the work forward, ensuring that patients receive the right support on time.
• Collaborative – You work closely with colleagues and share knowledge, so that together we create the best possible solutions.
• Problem-solving – You analyze situations and find practical solutions to meet the individual needs of patients.
• Integrity – You act professionally and stand by your decisions, so that patients feel safe and confident.

What We Offer

With us, you will have a meaningful job in a supportive and secure workgroup with experienced colleagues. We offer:

• Professional development
• Health and wellness benefits
• A workplace where we support each other

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process at Halmstad Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally.

We value the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, bring to the organization. Therefore, we welcome applicants who contribute to this.

Before employment, you need to demonstrate that you have the right to work, as required by the Aliens Ordinance. You can do this by proving your citizenship in the EU/EES or Switzerland with a passport, national ID card, or personal certificate along with an identity document. If you cannot do this, you need to present a work permit or show that you are exempt from the requirement for a work permit.

The position is filled on the condition that it is not claimed by surplus staff.

Recruitment is ongoing, so do not wait to submit your application.

Halmstad Municipality offers health and wellness benefits and applies a smoke-free work policy.

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

Warm welcome to submit your application!

The Social Administration works to provide support and help to children, youth, families, and people with disabilities or dependency problems. We also work with outreach and preventive measures. Fundamental to us is that we treat each other with respect – both our users and among ourselves as employees.

When you work at Halmstad Municipality, you create meaning by shaping, strengthening, and enriching the everyday lives of others - whoever you are. With us, collaboration, balance, and the opportunity to develop, both as a professional and as a person, are important - we are the workplace where you get more out of life! Read more about us here (https://www.halmstad.se/intro).