Develop Psychiatric Care in Värmland

Do you want to help develop psychiatric care in Värmland? At the psychiatric outpatient clinic in Hagfors, you will be part of a competent and interdisciplinary team with a strong patient focus.

We offer a varied job with good introduction opportunities, continuous supervision, and a chance to contribute to the development of our new mobile service. We are now looking for a nurse who wants to make a difference with us!

Your Workplace

The clinic is organized within the Adult Psychiatry area in Region Värmland. In addition to the clinic in Hagfors, there is psychiatric outpatient care in Torsby, Arvika, Kristinehamn, Säffle, and Karlstad.

We work interdisciplinary, and our team consists of nurses, social workers, psychologists, doctors, administrative staff, and occupational therapists. The work is characterized by a strong patient focus, collaboration with relatives, and various partners such as municipalities, social insurance, and inpatient care.

Your Responsibilities

We currently have a need for new hires due to service reductions, retirements, and the start-up of mobile services in the form of a Psychiatric Care Team, SPOT team. There are good conditions for the introduction of experienced and knowledgeable employees. You will also participate in regular group supervision.

Your responsibilities as a nurse include varied general psychiatric outpatient work such as assessments, medication administration and follow-up, telephone advice, sample collection, follow-up after inpatient care, unplanned contacts during deteriorating conditions, as well as counseling and support contacts.

You will follow the patient's well-being where we strive for cohesive care and treatment with continuity in our contacts. As a nurse, you work in a clinic characterized by teamwork, good communication, and high competence.

Your Skills and Competencies

We are looking for you who are a licensed nurse with an interest in psychiatry. You may be either a specialist-trained or a general-trained nurse. Experience in psychiatric work is an advantage.

Region Värmland offers, among other things, specialist training positions that you can apply for, here (https://www.regionvarmland.se/regionvarmland/jobb-utbildning--forskning/jobba-med-oss/lediga-jobb/specialistutbildningstjanster). This means that you, as a licensed nurse, will study in a specialist training program while maintaining your salary.

Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability, good collaboration skills, and confidence in independent work. You have a strong patient focus, are solution-oriented, flexible, and enjoy taking responsibility together with the clinic team. Your approach and work methods promote high patient safety and quality in care.

As a nurse, you work in a clinic characterized by teamwork, good communication, and high competence. Interviews are conducted continuously.

Since the position involves mobile services, a B driver's license is required.

About Region Värmland

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Other

In connection with potential employment, we may ask you as an applicant to provide an extract from the police criminal record. Before employment in psychiatric care, care of the disabled, or care of children or adolescents, the employer conducts a check in the police's suspicion and criminal record. An outcome in this register may affect your ability to be employed.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply, we ask you to contact the HR Competence Supply Unit via the Region's switchboard at 010-831 50 00. You will then receive help to submit your application without it being handled in Varbi. Please only include information that is relevant to the current position.

In preparation for the recruitment process, Region Värmland has taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.