Physiotherapist to the Rehabilitation Unit in Skövde Municipality

The Rehabilitation Unit is responsible for the rehabilitation of patients enrolled in municipal health and medical care at home, in nursing homes, short-term units, and day activities within elderly care, disability services, and social psychiatry. The operation is part of the care and welfare sector in Skövde Municipality.

The care and welfare sector has an important societal mission. We work with support, service, care, and welfare for people of all ages, and our operations are characterized by professionalism and human values. Here, we work together as a team. We help and support each other. You are surrounded by high competence, experienced colleagues, and managers. In the role of physiotherapist, you also receive so much back from those you are there for.

To provide the best conditions for our patients and for our employees to succeed and develop at work, development work and continuous improvements are our focus. We want to be at the forefront of what we do.

As an employee with us, you are important; we want you to stay. We offer mentorship and a tailored introduction for all new employees, as well as ongoing training and professional development.

In 2025, a major investment has been made to train care and welfare staff in transfers using patient lifts. The municipality is now continuing this investment, and the Rehabilitation Unit will also train care and welfare staff in manual transfers.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of physiotherapist within municipal health and medical care is independent and involves assessing, planning, organizing, and executing rehabilitation interventions, assistive device assessments, and treatments for the patients you are responsible for.

The work is varied and requires you to be flexible and able to quickly reprioritize as conditions change. Patient work can involve everything from making transfers function when leaving the hospital, training mobility, improving complex seating, reducing pain, and maintaining respiratory function.

You are jointly responsible for the patient's rehabilitation process with the occupational therapist, and you participate in interdisciplinary teams with nurses, nursing assistants, care assessors, and unit managers. You also have close contact with relatives and are an important link between the patient and other caregivers. As a physiotherapist with us, you are responsible for guiding and delegating tasks to care and welfare staff. You are a support for other employees in the team around the patient. Contributing to the improvement work of the operation is a natural task.

Solution-focused and unpretentious collaboration is a significant part of your role and a success factor in the assignment. You need to be able to work with both acute issues and long-term goals.

Parts of the position may be directed towards training staff together with colleagues.

We work daytime on weekdays.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for a licensed physiotherapist who appreciates the breadth and variation within municipal health and medical care. Experience from municipal rehabilitation or similar is an advantage.

You are a positive and curious person with good communication skills who finds it easy to build relationships with colleagues, patients, and relatives. You are confident and work independently, but also take responsibility in teamwork by collaborating in a solution-focused and unpretentious manner with other professionals. You are flexible and have the ability to prioritize when needed. You master the Swedish language both in speech and writing. A valid driver's license B for a manual transmission vehicle is required.

We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

OTHER

In Skövde Municipality, we work with everything from care, support, and education to infrastructure, maintenance, cultural life, and growth. We have hundreds of professions and 5500 employees. The work varies depending on which operation we work in, but everyone represents the same employer, Skövde Municipality, and our common mission is to be a welfare provider, community developer, and employer. Gender-equal, equal, and inclusive operations are a given for us.

As an employee in Skövde Municipality, you are an important player in a team that delivers services and support to our customers every day, all year round. It is in the meeting with our customers that the value of our work arises. We invest in you as an employee and offer professional development, favorable pension conditions, wellness benefits, as well as several wellness activities and offers. And best of all, we have room for more.

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