Vacant job

When you work in Halmstad municipality, you help shape, strengthen, and enrich the everyday lives of others. Your contribution is meaningful to us - whoever you are. We are looking for you who want to contribute to a better Halmstad.

Halmstad is an expanding municipality where we work to ensure that our 105,000 residents thrive and get more out of life. Here are the opportunities for you who want a meaningful job and contribute with engagement and innovation. Together with 10,000 colleagues, you are helping to build the hometown, the knowledge city, and the experience city. Read more about us here (https://www.halmstad.se/intro).

The Home Care Administration is responsible for the needs of elderly people regarding care, support, housing, and activities. The administration is one of the municipality's largest workplaces with approximately 2,200 employees. We constantly strive for development and renewal within our area of operation. The Home Care Administration is a modern employer that meets new needs and demands from Halmstad's residents through an open climate and growth for renewal and change.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for you who want to join our well-functioning team with about 30 colleagues with broad experience from various operations.

You are interested in change work and profiling the occupational therapist's professional role in the municipality. Together with a physiotherapist, you will be responsible for the overall rehabilitation in the patient's own home, in special housing, or in the municipality's short-term housing.

Your tasks include ADL assessments, prescribing assistive devices, training in ADL skills, issuing certificates for housing adaptations, and instructing/training/mentoring relatives and care staff in the daily work around the patient. The measures are based on the patient's goals and needs and are individually adapted to support increased independence and participation in daily life.

We offer you a pleasant working climate with close collegial cooperation where you plan your own workday. Continuous professional development is offered to maintain high quality and meet customer needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who are a licensed occupational therapist.

You should have experience working as an occupational therapist and preferably have knowledge or experience working with elderly people. It is an advantage if you have work experience as an occupational therapist in municipal operations. We are looking for someone who enjoys collaborating with colleagues and other professions in the organization. Other personal qualities we value are commitment, responsiveness, and the ability to plan your own workday and make independent decisions.

In the job, it also means that you should be communicative and have an easy time creating new contacts. We also want you to have the ability to work from a person-centered approach where the customer's resources and abilities are in focus.

You have the ability to express yourself in Swedish in both speech and writing and use various digital systems fluently and document in our document management system according to current legislation.

A driver's license (B with manual transmission) is required as travel to customers' homes occurs.

OTHER

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process at Halmstad municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply in Visma Recruit and not via email or paper format.

To be considered for employment, we want you to present an extract from the criminal record. Order a record extract on the police's website with your BankID. Open the e-service and order - "Extract to check your own information in the criminal record". The extract will be sent to your mailbox and must be brought in an unopened envelope and presented during the recruitment process.

We value the qualities that a balanced age and gender distribution, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, bring to the organization. We therefore welcome applicants who contribute to this.

Before employment occurs, you need to show that you have the right to work, which is required under the Aliens Ordinance. You do this by proving your citizenship in the EU/EES or Switzerland through a passport, national ID card, or personal certificate along with an identity document. If you cannot do this, you need to present a work permit or show that you are exempt from the obligation to obtain a work permit.

We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

The position is filled under the condition that it is not claimed by surplus staff.

Warm welcome with your application!