Assistant Nurse with Interest in Eating Disorders

Are you a trained assistant nurse with an interest in working closely with people and developing care for eating disorders? Then you are warmly welcome to us!

The Stockholm Center for Eating Disorders (SCÄ) is one of the largest specialist clinics in the world for patients with eating disorders and receives patients of all ages.

We have a well-developed operation with digital care, outpatient care, intensive outpatient care, day care, round-the-clock care, and nationally specialized care for both adults, children, and adolescents. Today we have just over 280 employees. Our outpatient and day care are located in Södermalm and our round-the-clock care at Danderyd Hospital.

Round-the-clock care for children and adolescents has space for 12 families with a treatment time of 6-10 weeks. Family work plays a central role in the treatment where parents are strengthened in their parenting role and gain increased knowledge about the eating disorder. Parents are present with their children throughout the treatment period. With us, you work closely in a team (care team) with nurses, assistant nurses, psychiatrists, dietitians, and social workers. FBT plays a very central role in the treatment.

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Do you want to work with and learn more about patients with eating disorders? We offer you as a trained assistant nurse a stimulating and pleasant workplace where we have the patient at the center. You will receive training in our treatment methods as well as regular supervision. We are committed teams with high competence and we strive to provide patients with the best care. We want to achieve an open and pleasant working climate with close collaboration between our different units. Each week, families have the opportunity to meet a Participation Coordinator, and we have a close collaboration with the patient association Frisk och Fri. Together with us, you will have the opportunity to grow, thrive, and continue to develop our eating disorder care.

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Job Responsibilities:

As an assistant nurse with us, your duties include both psychiatric and somatic care. The child mostly always has a parent with them on the ward throughout the treatment period as the treatment is family-based and aims to strengthen parents' mandate and provide them with increased knowledge about eating disorders. You should be there as support. However, we should also be able to offer treatment for children who do not have the opportunity to have a guardian in the ward. You assist patients with anxiety management and are there as meal support if needed. You also perform somatic examinations such as blood sampling, placing a gastric tube, EKG, and weight control.

Employment Type:

Permanent employment, day/evening and weekend shifts. Full-time 37 hours/week, or as agreed. A probationary period may apply.

Qualifications:

We are looking for someone who is a trained assistant nurse, with a certificate of protected professional title from the National Board of Health and Welfare, and who has experience working with patients with eating disorders, either from somatic, psychiatric, or specialized eating disorder care. We consider it an advantage if you have completed assistant nurse training with a focus on psychiatric care and have experience with patients with autism spectrum disorders or self-harming behavior. If you are a trained CPR instructor or Bergen instructor, that is also an advantage. Likewise, previous practical experience in somatic examinations such as venous blood sampling and EKG, as well as knowledge of the TakeCare journal system.

Personal Qualities:

You have a genuine interest in people. You use conversation as a tool in patient work and focus on patient-centered care.

Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability, and we would like you to be a person who shows commitment and initiative in your work. You are unpretentious, loyal, and have good social skills. You care about the work environment for the team and want to create a pleasant environment for everyone. As we are facing the relocation of the clinic's round-the-clock care to Danderyd Hospital, there is a need for flexibility and a willingness to participate in the creation process of the care department.

Our Benefits:

SLSO creates good conditions for you as an employee to develop and become really good in your profession. As an employee, you have benefits such as free healthcare up to the high-cost protection, extra compensation during parental leave, pension agreements, and insurance. We also apply flexible working hours, wellness hours, and 5000 SEK in wellness grants/calendar year.

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Please attach proof of protected professional title from the National Board of Health and Welfare in your application. Interviews are conducted continuously during the application period. Welcome with your application today! The position is filled on the condition that it is not needed for internal relocation, according to applicable regulations.

For patient-related work within the Stockholm County Healthcare Area:

• background checks are applied before hiring decisions according to SLSO's overarching guidelines for background checks during employment.
• employees who will have patient contact must undergo a pre-employment health examination, according to applicable directives, which is conducted through occupational health services before employment.
• in addition to Swedish professional authorization, good knowledge of the Swedish language corresponding to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) is required. The same requirements are guiding for non-licensed personnel with patient contact.

Stockholm County Healthcare Area (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We offer healthcare within the Region Stockholm's framework in psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, urgent care, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, as well as assistive devices. In collaboration with Karolinska Institute, we conduct research, education, and development. https://www.slso.regionstockholm.se/ (https://www.slso.regionstockholm.se/)