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Helping people achieve better health is one of the most important missions one can have. At Södra Älvsborgs 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, safe, and developing job where you make a difference for others. Our employees often say that SÄS is a "just right-sized hospital" – it is large enough for you to develop and build a career, yet small enough to foster a sense of community across departments. We have a forward-thinking spirit, and exciting initiatives and research are always underway to improve care for our patients and meet future challenges in healthcare.

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

About our job opening

We are looking for a specialist nurse in psychiatry, or a registered nurse with experience in psychiatric care. The tasks consist of standard nursing work within psychiatric care.

With us, you will work in a multidisciplinary team together 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 actors, and contribute to making a real difference for those cared for in the department.

We are a well-functioning workplace with good cohesion, where you will quickly feel welcome and an integral part of the team. We place great importance on good treatment, job satisfaction, and a pleasant working environment.

To ensure you feel secure in your role, we offer an individual introduction.

Working hours

The position is a temporary contract until January 31, 2027, including day, evening, and weekend work according to an EU-adapted schedule with 11-hour rest periods.

About the Psychiatry Quarter

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

About us

The addiction care at Södra Älvsborgs 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 part of developing a cohesive care chain.

The patients we care for often have dependency issues and other serious psychiatric diagnoses. The legal frameworks we operate under are both HSL, LPT, and LVM while awaiting 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 facilities, 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.

We now need a new addition to our team because one of our nurses is trying out work in another unit within the organization. We are looking for someone with a genuine interest in psychiatry. You should love working in a fast-paced environment and be ready for all kinds of challenges. You should be a team player with a twinkle in your eye, yet understand the importance of collaboration and communication.

The department consists of a well-functioning team with friendly colleagues driven by curiosity and a desire to continuously develop the operations. With us, you will have the chance to be part of an exciting and vibrant work environment where we focus on the patient and work to create a safe and supportive environment. In the department, nurses and nursing assistants work alongside specialist doctors and medical secretaries.

The area of operations 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 to our patients, but job satisfaction, humor, and a pleasant working environment for employees are also high on the agenda.

We have a close collaboration with the University of Borås and accept nursing students for practical training.

Your profile

We are looking for someone with a Swedish nursing license and experience in the profession. It is an advantage if you have experience in psychiatric care and/or are a specialist nurse in psychiatry with experience in addiction care. We see that you have a strong interest in working person-centered based on assignments and values. We wish for you to 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 the drive to work on improving specialist psychiatric care based on innovative and creative ideas. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability as well as the genuine belief in the human capacity for change, where you put the patient's best interests at the center and are attentive to individual needs.

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

Other

We care about everyone's safety and require a background check from the criminal record and suspicion register for those offered employment with us.

Please attach your professional license with your application.

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