Registered Nurse in Home Care and Social Psychiatry

Do you want a free and independent job? Do you enjoy working with varied and challenging tasks? Then the position as a registered nurse in home care, care and nursing homes, within LSS and social psychiatry might be for you!

You will receive an exciting, rewarding, free, and independent job that creates participation for your patients and offers personal development for you. We will provide you with a mentor and an individually tailored introduction that gives you a very good start in your new job! With us, you will have a varied job and a workplace with high competence, a good working climate, and great engagement in the staff group.

Warm welcome to apply for the position as a registered nurse in home care, care and nursing homes within LSS and social psychiatry in the health and medical care section of Falu municipality.

Job Responsibilities

As a nurse in municipal health and medical care, you will lead the nursing and health care work in our residences, home care groups, group homes, and service housing within LSS and social psychiatry. You will collaborate with nursing assistants, care staff, support assistants, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and unit managers. You will also cooperate with primary care, inpatient care, and other actors based on a holistic view of the patient.

You will have overall patient responsibility for the care of your patients. This includes being able to make your own assessments, sampling, wound dressing, medication management, injections, diabetes care, and other relevant tasks. The work also includes the prevention of diseases and complications such as falls, malnutrition, and mental health issues. Furthermore, the work may involve being responsible for end-of-life care.

As a nurse, you will also mentor and educate/delegate care staff in nursing and health care interventions.

Qualifications

The following is required for the role:

• You are a licensed nurse
• Driver's license B
• Good ability to express yourself in the Swedish language, both orally and in writing

Personal Qualities

We are looking for someone who is open and engaged and enjoys developing both themselves and the organization they work in. As a person, you are empathetic, value good treatment of patients and colleagues, and have the ability to maintain a high and consistent level of service. You share the values of Falu municipality, where you meet every person with understanding and respect. You also have the ability to build relationships and create new networks. To thrive in the position, we also see that you need to be flexible to handle unforeseen events, and that you find it easy to collaborate based on your solution-focused approach. Great importance will be placed on your personal qualities, among other things, to ensure that you feel comfortable with us and become as secure as possible in your nursing role.

Meritorious Qualifications

• Specialist training in elderly care
• District nurse training
• Further training in dementia care
• Previous experience in municipal health and medical care
• Other relevant further education for the position

Employment Conditions

Temporary full-time employment with start date as agreed. Scheduled working hours 38.25h/week, daytime. Weekend and evening work may occur.

Please attach your educational certificates to your application as these will be requested if you are considered for the position. Alternatively, certificates can be provided during the interview.

To be employed, you must present an extract from the criminal record, which will be requested if employment becomes relevant. Please order this in connection with your application so that it is available if you are considered for the position.

Interviews may take place continuously during the application period.

There may be a possibility of extending the temporary position beyond the summer.

Other

When you submit your application, you will be required to answer selection questions that are based on the requirements for the position. Your answers are an important part of the initial selection, so be sure to respond thoroughly and clearly. In your application, you should attach your CV, but you should not send a personal letter – the selection questions replace this.

For this recruitment, we have made a decision regarding recruitment channels, and therefore we kindly decline further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

We only accept applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. If you have problems submitting your application, please contact [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).