Field of Operations: Geriatrics, Rehabilitation Medicine, and Pain Center

We are Uppsala University Hospital – 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

Are you interested in working as a senior nurse where no day looks the same? If so, you will thrive with us in Geriatrics. Here you will have the chance to develop a new role as an operational nurse with a varied number of roles and responsibilities in your assignment. You will work both as a nursing team nurse and an operational nurse, supporting other staff, being responsible for training, and sometimes taking on the role of patient flow coordinator (coordination of care places).

In the geriatric acute care department 30A, the elderly, frail patient is in focus. We provide medical acute care with a rehabilitative approach for older patients with varying care needs. Together, we are innovative and continuously work on improvements to make care as good as possible for our patients and improve the working environment for our staff/colleagues.

Your Assignment

Your assignment is varied, but the main task is as an operational nurse who provides support, help, and training to the nursing staff. This role is new, and therefore you have the opportunity to influence its content and develop the role together with the department managers.

• You are responsible for organizing and conducting training in the department, such as practical exercises at KTC, booking CPR training for all nursing staff, and being responsible for the summer's introduction days for our temporary staff.
• You work closely with the department managers and can take on the role of nurse 1 in their absence.
• If needed, you are responsible for patient flow in the department, coordinating role.
• Clinical supervision based on professional level.
• Scheduled time as an operational nurse where you provide support, coaching, and help to the nursing staff.
• Approximately 30-40% of your time you will work as a nurse in a care team where weekend work is included in the assignment.

Your Qualifications & Competence

• You are an experienced nurse with at least 5 years in the profession.
• You have good experience working in inpatient care.
• You have a strong interest in coaching and training colleagues in care and in medical technical procedures, etc.
• It is a merit if you have previously worked with geriatrics.
• You are service-oriented and independent in your role. You have the ability to switch pace and change focus to where the need is greatest.
• It is a merit if you have completed clinical supervision training via the professional step or have an interest in taking the training to support and supervise new colleagues in the department.

We Offer

A permanent position as a nurse with a special function. Weekend work is included in the assignment. Start date and scope of the position can be discussed. A probationary period may apply.

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 Manager: Lena Mattsson, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Other unions can be reached via Region Uppsala's switchboard 018-611 00 00.

Do You Want to Work with Us?

Welcome with your application via the link below. Selection, interviews, and hiring will take place continuously during the application period, so do not wait with your application. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability where interest in education, supervision, and flexibility weighs heavily.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that gender balance 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 based on the needs of total defense. This means that for the individual employee, there are no obligations in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a hiring decision, a check of suspicion and criminal records regarding all applicants who may work in psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and youth, or compulsory care of substance abusers will be conducted, areas that are subject to optional record extracts. This applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks are not primarily intended to include work with the above-mentioned patient groups.

This recruitment is conducted entirely through Region Uppsala's management, and we kindly ask recruitment companies and advertisement sellers not to call.