Job Advertisement: Nurse for the Orthopedic Ward

Region Västerbotten works to ensure that good health and sustainable development strengthen each other. We take responsibility for equitable welfare and for research and innovation to yield results.

Are you interested in developing yourself in your professional role? Are you attracted to orthopedics in a highly specialized context? Do you find development and innovative thinking appealing in operations? Then we have the position for you.

The Orthopedic Ward has begun a development this autumn in close collaboration with Umeå University. We have now opened our Clinical Education Ward (KUA). We are at the beginning of this both challenging and exciting journey. Training of students and staff has always been close to our hearts, and we are now further developing this. The Orthopedic Ward will thus become a unit with a unique blend of highly specialized care that meets clinical education. An exciting, educational, and multifaceted workplace that is in a phase of development. We are now hiring more nurses to take this development further and would love for you to apply for the position. If this sounds interesting, read on.

Our orthopedic ward in Umeå has up to 32 care places, and we work cross-professionally in care teams around patients aged between 18 and 100+. The ward consists of sections where we form nursing and medical teams to create specialized competence and increase patient safety.

The facilities we operate in are newly renovated and adapted for our operations to function optimally. The Orthopedic Ward is a workplace where we constantly work to improve and maintain a good working environment, a workplace where we care for each other and help one another within and between professions, and have an open climate between employees and managers.

We offer onboarding at your new workplace with the help of our Instructional Nurses and other colleagues. You can choose whether you want to work on a traditional AB schedule or on a 3:3 model. A workplace where we see the importance of competence development, you will also have the opportunity to attend our own orthopedic training as well as participate in the ongoing internal training at the clinic. You will have the opportunity to shadow in other operations. As the first care ward in Region Västerbotten, we have introduced a competence ladder for nurses. To allow nursing staff to focus on patients, we work with support functions such as: Discharge Coordinator through Lifecare, receptionists, relieving functions in the medication room, kitchen assistants, and care services.

If this sounds interesting, we look forward to meeting you to tell you more about our operations and also to learn more about you. You are also warmly welcome to shadow us for 1 day to see more of the operations.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a nurse with us, you contribute to taking good care of others and helping people feel better.

In the ward, you will have the opportunity to learn a breadth within orthopedics, from planned admissions to emergency care with trauma care and advanced spinal surgery. With us, nurses have an important and natural role in the nursing team where you, as a nurse, motivate and lead the other nursing staff.

As a nurse, you work closely with the patient, and your work includes identifying risks, assessing, addressing, and evaluating the patient's various nursing needs. We work in fast care chains where mobilization and return to previous life are pursued quickly after surgery. As a nurse with us, you perform regular nursing tasks for an acute care ward, such as medication management, patient and family conversations, and planning.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who are an engaged colleague, contributing knowledge and joy. Who feels responsible for the patient's well-being and the continued development of the operation.

You are a licensed nurse with an interest in orthopedics and emergency care. You can handle multiple tasks simultaneously and see it as a challenge to work at a varying pace. You enjoy collaborating with different people in various professional categories and actively contribute to a good working environment through your knowledge and engagement.

Relevant further education and/or previous experience in orthopedics is an advantage.

OTHER

Read more about our benefits for those who work with us on our website here (https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner).

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply, please contact the recruiting manager and then send your application documents by post.