Occupational Therapist to the Affective Psychiatry Clinic in Uddevalla

NU Healthcare is part of the Västra Götaland Region and is one of Sweden's larger county hospitals. We are located at NÄL (Northern Älvsborg County Hospital) in Trollhättan and Uddevalla Hospital. The hospital's catchment area includes 280,000 residents. Together, we are about 5,000 employees who work every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare. We are located on the west coast, and our area offers varied nature with both sea, mountains, forests, and lakes.

Affective Psychiatry Clinic in Uddevalla

The psychiatric clinic is seen as the foundation of the specialist psychiatric services where the goal is to investigate, diagnose, treat, and rehabilitate in the patient's local environment as much as possible.

You will join a workplace with well-established colleagues and a good work community. We who work at the clinic include doctors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, and medical secretaries.

Our ambition is to offer and create conditions for stimulating and developing work at our clinic with well-established colleagues and a good work community with different specialties under the same roof.

Job Responsibilities

As an occupational therapist with us, you will have very varied tasks. Such as investigating, assessing, and treating the patient based on their needs. The work is carried out both individually and in groups. Primary tasks consist of functional/activity assessments, work ability assessments, testing and prescribing cognitive aids, and structuring daily life. If necessary, the work is performed in the individual's local environment, and home visits to patients are common. You will be a fixed care contact for a number of the team's patients, meaning you are the patient's closest contact at the clinic.

Qualifications

Licensed occupational therapist, preferably with experience in adult psychiatry. Further training in CBT Level 1 is an advantage.

As a person, you are responsible, structured, orderly, creative, and interested. You have good collaboration skills. You enjoy working independently and in a team. You are positive and engaged and want to contribute to the development of the clinic's work and routines in the right direction. We work in a fast-paced and changing everyday life, and it is important that you can handle this in a way that benefits the organization and your own recovery. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.

Other

We conduct interviews continuously throughout the application period.

When filling a position within psychiatry, we always request a background check from the suspicion and criminal records register. This request is handled by the employer.

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About the Västra Götaland Region

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Application

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