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Helping people achieve better health is one of the most important missions one can have. At Södra Älvsborg Hospital (SÄS), we are 3,700 employees with 120 different professions who contribute to this every day. What role do you want to play?

Regardless of your role, we can offer you a meaningful, secure, and developing job where you make a difference for others. Our employees often say that SÄS is a "just the right size hospital" – it's big enough to develop and advance your career, yet small enough to foster a sense of community across departments. We have a forward-thinking spirit, and there are always exciting initiatives and research underway to improve care for our patients and meet the future challenges in healthcare.

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If you want to contribute to good and safe care with rehabilitation for people with addiction issues, the opportunity to follow your patients in rehabilitation over time, and have a genuine heart for our patient group – then we are looking for you!

About our job opening
We are now looking for you who are a specialist nurse in psychiatry or a basic trained nurse with an interest in or experience in psychiatric care. The tasks are standard nursing duties within psychiatric care. We work cross-professionally with doctors, nurses, and caregivers. As a nurse, you will lead and distribute work within the team and be responsible for patient care. You will work closely with patients, collaborate with other stakeholders, and make a difference for those cared for in the department. We are a well-functioning workplace with good cohesion. You will quickly feel welcome and be one of us. We focus on good treatment, job satisfaction, and a pleasant working environment. To ensure you feel secure in your role, you will receive an individual introduction.

Working hours
This advertisement refers to a position with night shifts only. We offer double OB compensation for night work within the Västra Götaland region.

About the Psychiatric Quarter
Do you want to work in new, modern, and unique facilities designed for specialist psychiatric care? The Psychiatric Quarter is a newly built and modern care environment with green outdoor areas and fresh, bright premises. Our ambition is to offer Sweden's best psychiatric care, and the Psychiatric Quarter is our largest investment in many years. We have just celebrated our second year in the Psychiatric Quarter and are now looking for you who want to join us on our continued journey towards the future of psychiatry!

About us
The addiction care at Södra Älvsborg Hospital consists of an inpatient department and an outpatient clinic that work closely together. The Psychiatry Department 2 and the addiction psychiatry outpatient clinic are led by a unit manager and are part of the same care chain. This is a step towards developing a cohesive care chain. We now welcome a nurse who will work night shifts in our 24-hour care. The patients we care for often have addiction issues and other serious psychiatric diagnoses. The legal frameworks we work under include both HSL, LPT, and LVM while waiting for other placements. The department collaborates with specialist psychiatric outpatient clinics, social services, and primary care. We strive to provide our patients with meaningful care of high quality and high patient safety. In our new premises, we have a vision of achieving a new working method that enables a zero vision regarding threats and violence as well as coercive measures. In patient work, we focus on working with a low-arousal approach, and our ambition is to provide top-class psychiatric care.

The operational area works with long-term competence development for nurses, which includes the opportunity for specialist training after a period of service at the clinic. The emphasis is on providing professional treatment and care for our patients, but job satisfaction, humor, and a pleasant working environment for employees are also high on the agenda.

We also have a close collaboration with the University of Borås and welcome nursing students for practical training as well as nursing students.

Your profile
We are looking for you who have a Swedish nursing license and have experience in the profession. It is advantageous for the position if you have experience from psychiatric care and/or are a specialist nurse in psychiatry with experience in addiction care. We see that you have a great interest in working person-centered based on assignments and values. We wish that you have a positive, flexible, and pedagogical approach with a high degree of professionalism. We also see that you have a good ability to work both independently and in a team. Furthermore, we see that you are responsible and have a drive to improve specialist psychiatric care based on innovative and creative ideas. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability and the genuine belief in the human capacity for change, where you put the patient's best interests at the center and are responsive to individual needs.

If you are in your final semester of the nursing program or have less than four months of professional experience, you are referred to apply for our introductory programs. Read more about SÄS's introduction offer for newly graduated nurses here.

Other
If you want to know more, you are warmly welcome to contact us.

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Interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis, so welcome with your application today!