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About Hospitals in the West

Hospitals in the West is an administration within the Västra Götaland Region and consists of four hospitals – Alingsås Hospital, Angered Local Hospital, Högsbo Local Hospital, and Kungälv Hospital. Approximately 3000 employees work with us every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare of the highest quality.

Högsbo Local Hospital

Högsbo Local Hospital offers an exciting workplace where you will have the opportunity to work with new methods and be an important part of implementing new innovative working forms for close care.

Högsbo Local Hospital is a so-called smart hospital where we combine innovative working methods with future IT support to enable high-quality care with the patient in focus. The hospital has a day surgery center, a specialist center with radiology, and sampling for adults and children. Högsbo Local Hospital is an important part of the development of local healthcare in the Gothenburg area.

Description

The Referral Unit is an organization within Hospitals in the West and acts as a support organization for the expanded mission of regional healthcare within the Gothenburg area.

The Referral Unit is responsible for the joint management of incoming referrals to the administration for the activities included and is responsible for coordination, collaboration, support, and management of referral volumes to and from Hospitals in the West.

Job Responsibilities

Working as a referral administrator means that you are an important part of the team working to ensure that all patients receive good and safe care.

You will work with mail handling, referral management, patient administrative work in ELVIS and Melior, scanning and distribution of referrals to SÄLMA, handling self-referrals via 1177, telephone service/support both internally and externally, as well as other administrative tasks according to the needs of the operations.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone with education in health and medical care administration, such as a medical secretary, nursing assistant, or other experience in healthcare administration or similar qualifications that the employer deems equivalent. We prefer that you are accustomed to working with various IT tools and have experience in referral registration/booking in ELVIS and working in Melior. Experience with SÄLMA is an advantage. We also prefer that you are familiar with telephone service/support.

You should enjoy working flexibly. Since the position involves daily contact with many people, we expect you to have good collaboration skills, be used to taking initiative, and be able to organize your work independently. You are meticulous and have a good attitude towards colleagues. You have good language skills in Swedish, both spoken and written.

As we are keen to find the right employees for our team, great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability. Important qualities and abilities that we value are humility, being team-oriented, having good prioritization skills, being solution-focused, and spreading joy and energy.

The Referral Unit is an organization within Hospitals in the West where internal training will be conducted to enable employees to reach the qualifications and competencies needed for the job.

Other

Selection and interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis.

Welcome with your application!

About Västra Götaland Region

The 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.

The Västra Götaland Region actively works to digitize more working methods. To be part of the digital transformation, you should have basic skills and be able to use digital tools and services. You can search for information, communicate, interact digitally, are risk-aware, and have the motivation to participate in development to learn new things.

The Västra Götaland Region places all permanent employees in a state of readiness.

If you want to know more about the Västra Götaland Region, you can visit our introduction for new employees at the link here (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion). You can also read more in the presentation here (https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate).

Application

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