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Telephone Operator at Västra Götaland Region
VÄSTRA GÖTALANDSREGIONENVästra Götalands län, Borås
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Job Description
You are part of a workgroup consisting of telephone operators and system administrators.
Telephone service is available in three locations and supports healthcare around the clock, every day of the year.
As a telephone operator, you work in several systems, relay calls, and guide the public with the right information.
Other common tasks include:
- Managing, alarming, and monitoring urgent medical alarms
- Guiding to the right functions for both the public and the region's operations
- Administration and handling of disaster support, on-call changes, and on-call lists.
The work is scheduled during days, evenings, and weekends. Night work may also occur if needed. The advertisement concerns two permanent positions and two six-month temporary positions with a high chance of extension.
To provide good service in the role of telephone operator, you need to:
- Have a high stress tolerance and maintain calm when handling calls in pressured and urgent alarm situations
- Be able to work at a high pace and actively listen while searching for information simultaneously
- Have very good teamwork skills but also be able to take responsibility and work independently.
You have a high school education and good knowledge of Microsoft 365, as well as experience in learning and working in various IT systems. You communicate fluently in Swedish and English and have the ability to convey complex information in an understandable way, and you have experience in switchboard and telephone work.
Experience in meeting people in vulnerable situations is an advantage.
Our Offer
We offer you a developing workplace where you receive introduction, training, and good employment conditions. As part of our team, you as an employee lay the foundation for effective healthcare.
At telephone service, we provide an introduction for all new employees that lasts about 7-10 weeks. This is to give you the best possible start in your new job. The positions are located at Södra Älvsborg Hospital in Borås.
Recruitment Process
In this process, we do not request a personal letter; instead, we want you to answer a number of questions when you register your application. Please remember to answer thoroughly as we make our first selection based on your responses.
Welcome with your application!
Property, support, and service is Västra Götaland Region's own service organization and property manager that ensures things work as they should. We take care of property operations, ensure that all employees receive their salaries, that premises are cleaned, and that assignments within the region are staffed with specialist competence. We want to work closely with those we support because we believe that together we can make a difference. With openness and a focus on development and collaboration, we work for a good life in Västra Götaland Region.
About Västra Götaland Region
Västra Götaland Region exists for the people of Västra Götaland. We ensure that there is good healthcare for all. We work for sustainable development and growth, a good environment, improved public health, a rich cultural life, and good communications throughout Västra Götaland.
Västra Götaland Region actively works to digitize more working methods. To be part of the digital transformation, you bring basic skills and can use digital tools and services. You can search for information, communicate, interact digitally, are risk-aware, and have the motivation to participate in the development to learn new things.
Västra Götaland Region places all permanent employees in a war position.
If you want to know more about Västra Götaland Region, you can visit our introduction for new employees at the link https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion). You can also read more in the presentation at https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate (https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate).
Application
Västra Götaland Region prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for specific and special reasons cannot register your information in a public system - contact the contact person for the respective advertisement.
To staffing, brokerage, and recruitment companies and to you as a seller:
We kindly but firmly request no direct contact with staffing, brokerage, and recruitment companies as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job advertisements. Västra Götaland Region has contracted agreements.
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