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Nurse for Addiction Care Department

REGION SKÅNE

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Make a difference. Every day.

Are you looking for a varied and broad job as a nurse? Then this is an exciting and challenging position for you! We have a strong focus on psychiatric care and work with the patient at the center. Welcome to our addiction care department.

Our patients are primarily individuals with addiction issues and often have complex and extensive psychiatric comorbidities requiring psychiatric emergency care. The operation runs around the clock, and we currently have nine beds available.

With us, nurses and nursing assistants work in teams that form the core of the care work. Additionally, there are doctors, social workers, and medical secretaries in the department.

We have a high staff density in the department so that our operations are balanced in a well-functioning way. We offer shadowing with a mentor for four weeks upon employment to create security and a good introduction to the work in the department. We have close cooperation with other psychiatric wards in the clinic where opportunities for development, proximity to nursing colleagues, and competence are the focus.

Welcome to a unit with a breadth of different experiences and competencies, where leadership is close and encourages participation in influencing and developing both the work environment and the department as a whole.

RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for a nursing colleague who wants to join our fantastic team and drive the development of our department forward!

We work in care teams, where nurses and nursing assistants work side by side with mutual respect, collaboration, and patient focus. Daily planning is managed in close cooperation between nursing assistants, nurses, chief physicians, and patients.

The pace of work can sometimes be high, and taking significant personal responsibility is part of the daily work. Here it is about finding solutions, working with low-arousal responses, and caring for psychiatric care.

Working hours are scheduled for day/evening shifts with duty every third weekend.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who are a licensed nurse with the authority to work within Swedish healthcare. Language skills in Swedish at least corresponding to level C1 according to the Council of Europe's scale is a requirement. It is an advantage if you have specialist training in psychiatry. We prefer that you have previous experience in psychiatric care.

For us, it is important that you have an interest in psychiatry and our patients. You enjoy working both independently and as part of a team. As a person, we want you to have good organizational skills and work in a structured manner. Furthermore, we see that you have a positive attitude and the ability to handle a higher pace of work and see the same value in good interactions as we do. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

In the event of employment, a check against the suspicion and criminal record register will be made.

In this recruitment, we apply rolling selection. We warmly welcome your application today!

OTHER

Region Skåne exists to ensure that everyone living in Skåne feels good and has hope for the future. Through limitless collaborations and care, we create the best conditions for a healthy life within business, public transport, culture, and healthcare in Skåne. Together we make life more possible.

Psychiatry, habilitation, and assistive devices is the second largest administration with operations throughout Skåne. We have a broad mission where many different competencies together provide our patients with the best care and support. With curiosity and great interest, we also invest in development and research.

The mission within psychiatry is to provide specialized care in publicly operated child, adult, and forensic psychiatry. Habilitation provides habilitation and rehabilitation within publicly operated child, youth, and adult habilitation. Assistive devices are tasked with managing assistive devices prescribed to patients in Skåne. Within the administration, there are also services for vision, hearing, and deafness, as well as youth clinics in Skåne.

At https://www.skane.se/ledigajobb (https://www.skane.se/ledigajobb), you can see the stage of Region Skåne's recruitments and how many have applied for the positions.

If you have protected personal information, please contact the contact person indicated in the advertisement so that your application can be handled according to special procedures. When you apply for a job at Region Skåne, your application becomes a public document under the principle of public access. The information is processed and stored according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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