Healthcare Assistant for Ward 53 in Psychiatry

Are you a driven and dedicated healthcare assistant looking to work in psychiatry? Do you enjoy interacting with both patients and their relatives and wish to develop in your professional field? Come work with us!

Description

We are currently seeking a healthcare assistant for Ward 53, part of Northern Stockholm Psychiatry. We are located in Stadshagen at the S:t Göran hospital area.

Are you interested in working with specialized and varied psychiatric care? Do you thrive in a team environment and want to be involved in planning your patients' care? Then you will enjoy becoming a part of us here at Ward 53. What characterizes Ward 53 is patient involvement, good collaboration with colleagues and relatives, as well as care neighbors.

Ward 53 is a psychiatric ward with 16 beds for patients with bipolar disorder at Northern Stockholm Psychiatry (NSP).

Responsibilities

Typical responsibilities for a healthcare assistant include basic care, contributing to a good care environment, demonstrating good communication, patient conversations, and documentation in the Take Care journal system, etc.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is a trained healthcare assistant with a focus on psychiatry/USK, with experience and interest in psychiatric care. We place great importance on personal suitability, valuing flexibility and an open mind. A healthcare assistant certificate from the National Board of Health and Welfare is required (protected professional title), as well as at least one year of experience in psychiatric care.

Conditions

Full-time, permanent position. Start date according to agreement. Full-time corresponds to 37:00 hours/week.

We offer you:

• Professional development
• Free outpatient healthcare
• Generous wellness allowance (5000 SEK/year)

Other

Selection is ongoing.

Welcome with your application!

The position is filled under 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 current directives, which is conducted through occupational health services before employment.
• in addition to Swedish professional certification, good knowledge of the Swedish language equivalent to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) is required. The same requirements are guiding for non-licensed staff with patient contact.

Stockholm County Healthcare Area (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We offer health and medical care in the Stockholm Region within 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. Read more here. (https://www.slso.regionstockholm.se/)

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