Do you want to work with patients suffering from severe illness and cancer?

Do you want to work in medical care and nursing? Do you want to develop within your profession as a nurse? Then a job as a nurse in the hematology inpatient care is the right job for you!

Our Offer

In the beginning: We focus on your personal development and offer both structured introduction and a long-term individual development plan.

Introduction is planned for about six weeks depending on previous experience. A mentor is offered to all new employees. During the introduction, training in safe medication and cytostatic handling, theoretical reading days, and observations in outpatient/day care, with research nurses and the cell therapy unit will take place. Individual schedule planning in Tessa. We actively work for healthy working hours and we work every third weekend. Internal training time regularly and the opportunity to work on further development of your own area of responsibility within nursing. We schedule reading/administration days every schedule period for opportunities for deepening and development of knowledge.

Later: We offer career development programs within the Center for Surgery, Orthopedics, and Cancer Care (CKOC) with the opportunity to specialize in one of our core areas. We offer a competence supply plan to promote good career development. Advanced training in cytostatic handling (cytostatic driver's license) and hematology training is offered both internally and externally. In the long term, there is the possibility to apply for an educational position with further education in medicine, oncology, and hopefully hematology in the future. Eventually, expanded assignments with deepened areas of responsibility or rotation between outpatient/day care and the ward can be offered to promote even more variation in daily work.

Job Description

Who are we?

Clinic level: We are part of the Southeast Health Care Region, located in the O-building at the University Hospital in Linköping, and provide highly specialized care in hematology. We actively work with quality assurance, are an accredited stem cell transplantation facility according to JAICE. We are also accredited in cancer care and are part of the Linköping Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC). We have both acute and planned admissions, patients are from 18 years and older, and the length of stay is between a few days and several weeks. There is outpatient care, a clinic, a cell therapy unit, and a research and development unit at the clinic. We perform the latest treatments in cell therapy known as CAR-T cell therapy (Chimeric Antigen Receptor) and BiTe treatment.

The care department: Cares for patients with tumor and deficiency diseases within the hematopoietic system such as anemia, leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. Stimulating and varied tasks within general and specific medical and hematological care and nursing, highly specialized care in cell therapy and stem cell transplantation as well as other advanced treatments. As part of the care operations' efforts to provide patient-centered and resource-efficient care, we have intensified the work of developing and implementing outpatient treatment forms over the past year. This means that you as an employee get to be part of an innovative team that is at the forefront of creating safe, secure, and patient-centered care.

Here you can read about our career ladder for nurses and also about your benefits with us.

Work Group

Nursing staff on the ward, close collaboration with nursing assistants, doctors, and paramedics in the clinic (pharmacists, dietitians, physiotherapists, and social workers). A care team of six to seven patients is staffed with two nurses and one to two nursing assistants during the day.

About You

Requirements: We are looking for you who are (or will be) a licensed nurse. You work in constant dialogue with patients and colleagues, so good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written, is important. We are looking for someone who sees the whole picture and considers both the broader perspective and the best interests of the organization in your decisions and has a genuine interest in nursing, especially in cancer care, and wants to contribute to developing care for our patients.

Meritorious: If you have more than 1 year of professional experience as a nurse, experience in outpatient care, experience in inpatient care in hematology, or relevant further education, a rotation position between outpatient and inpatient care may be relevant. We value your personal qualities. We believe you are a person who is flexible and can adapt based on the current situation by switching between the planned and the unforeseen that happens. Working in a team and having good communication is necessary to successfully solve the tasks we face together. If you want to know more, feel free to get in touch or why not come to us for a few hours and shadow. Don't miss the chance to apply to us!

Application and Employment

Selection and interviews will take place after the application period has ended. The start of the position will be according to agreement. If you are called for an interview, we request two references, one of which should be a supervisor.

Here you can read about our career ladder for nurses and also about your benefits with us.

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