Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases

We are Akademiska sjukhuset – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a regional hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we offer services to two million people in Central Sweden. Something is always happening here – a new life is born, a grandmother is operated on, a colleague is celebrated as a hero. With us, you will experience both tough challenges and fantastic events, in a strong community with colleagues. See parts of our reality in our photo exhibition; akademiskafotoutstallning.se (http://akademiskafotoutstallning.se). Welcome with your application!

Our Operations

The cochlear implant team is part of the Hearing and Balance Clinic within the ENT department. The team is responsible for assessing children and adults with severe hearing loss or deafness and rehabilitating them with hearing implants. We receive patients of all ages and from several regions.

As a social worker, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of a coordinator, engineer, audiologist, physician, surgeon, hearing educator, and speech therapist. We work with two types of hearing implants; cochlear implants (CI) and brainstem implants (ABI). In addition to your main assignment with the cochlear implant team, you will also have a certain percentage of work with patients diagnosed with cancer within the ENT department.

Your Mission

As a social worker in the cochlear implant team, you will work both with assessments prior to surgery and with support measures in the subsequent hearing rehabilitation. In the assessment, you are responsible for the psychosocial evaluation, mapping the patient's social situation, network, employment, difficulties arising from hearing loss, and other support needs. After surgery, you will be responsible for supporting and assisting the patient during hearing rehabilitation. You will collaborate closely with other team members and provide information, advice, and support according to the patient's needs. The patient follows a clear care pathway in which the social worker is an important part.

Your tasks include support conversations, assistance with practical issues such as applications for funding and compensations, as well as planning and coordination with other healthcare providers, authorities, and stakeholders. This may involve the Social Insurance Agency, the Employment Agency, schools, employers, and the home municipality and region for coordination of support measures. Your mission also includes providing information and support to relatives, all to enable the best possible hearing rehabilitation for the patient.

In addition to working with the cochlear implant team, you will also assist the ENT department in supporting their patients who are undergoing or have been treated for cancer in the head and neck area. Your tasks will include supportive conversations, assistance with practical issues, and coordination with social workers at the oncology clinic when needed. With us, you will have the chance to play an important role in patient-centered work within an experienced multidisciplinary team with exciting hearing technology solutions. We offer you access to supervision.

Your Qualifications

You are a trained social worker. It is particularly meritorious if you are a licensed healthcare social worker with several years of experience working with patients, preferably in rehabilitation. It is also advantageous if you have knowledge of network work, collaboration with other authorities, and experience working with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.

Your Competence

You enjoy working independently as well as in a team. You are also structured with a problem-solving approach. The work is independent, and we place great emphasis on personal qualities such as commitment, interest in the patient group, initiative, and a very good ability to collaborate. Our patients are very satisfied with the care they receive from us, and we place great value on providing them with the best possible care.

We offer you as an employee an engaged team with competent colleagues and a good working climate. We place great importance on personal suitability.

We Offer

We offer a permanent full-time position. Start date according to agreement. With us, you will receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/).

Want to know more?

Department Head Helena Sundman Hearing and Balance Clinic, 018–611 53 11, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Union contact person can be reached via the switchboard 018-611 00 00

Want to work with us?

Welcome with your application via the link below. Interviews will be conducted continuously during the application period, and the position may be filled before the application deadline.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that a balanced gender distribution and diversity bring to the organization and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala places all permanent staff according to the needs of total defense. This means that the individual employee has no obligations in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a hiring decision is made, a check of suspicion and criminal records will be conducted regarding all applicants who may work in psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and youth, or compulsory care of substance abusers, areas that are covered by optional record extracts. This applies to anyone who will work closely with patients, even if the tasks are not primarily intended to involve work with the aforementioned patient groups at this time.

This recruitment is conducted entirely through Region Uppsala's own efforts, and we kindly ask recruitment companies and advertisement sellers to refrain from calling.