Position as Nurse in Home Healthcare in Ljungsbro

The position is placed within the Health and Care Administration, which is one of eight administrations in Linköping Municipality. The Health and Care Administration is responsible for the municipality's elderly care, health and medical care, authority exercise, ordering services, and provides care and support in its own right. We work with quality awareness and professionalism to make every day as good as possible for the residents of Linköping who need us. Do you want to improve the daily lives, future, and quality of life for the residents of Linköping? With us, you can combine important assignments with a meaningful everyday life. Welcome to us!

Your Responsibilities

The mission of home healthcare is to offer health and medical care in the home to those in need. Our interventions must maintain a high quality and be designed based on each individual's unique needs with respect for integrity and self-determination. We also work health-promoting and preventively by focusing on early interventions and strengthening the individual's own ability. We collaborate with the health center and work to instruct and guide care staff in the care process around the patient.

Working as a nurse in home healthcare involves many varied tasks. You work in the patient's ordinary residence where you meet patients with varying care needs. You are responsible for making independent assessments as well as leading and performing medical interventions. You will, among other things, plan actions and carry out follow-ups, manage medications, infusions, and medical technical equipment, and assist in the physician's authority exercise. Both planned and urgent patient visits occur.

As a nurse in home healthcare, you plan and implement training initiatives that enhance the medical competence and care quality of the staff. You actively drive training initiatives and are responsible, in close collaboration with the operations manager, for developing a strategic development plan moving forward. In addition to your clinical expert support in everyday care for the care staff, you are responsible for delegations for both regular staff and substitutes.

Your Workplace

Home healthcare in Linköping is divided into eight offices. You work independently but are part of a knowledgeable and dedicated team of colleagues. Together, you are responsible for a specific geographic area. We are currently looking for someone who wants to work in Ljungsbro and surrounding areas.

The Ljungsbro home healthcare consists of a total of four nurses. You are based at Vretaliden's sheltered housing, which also shares premises with Vretaliden's nursing home. The home care service also operates at Härnebacken's sheltered housing. You work with the home care group in Ljungsbro, which consists of nursing assistants and care aides.

You belong to the management group in Ljungsbro where you work together with the two operations managers, coordinators, specialist nursing assistants, as well as physiotherapists and occupational therapists. A pharmacist also works within home healthcare. We work according to a vision of multiprofessional teams where you collaborate with colleagues in other professions to provide qualitative care based on a holistic view of the patient.

Your working hours are mainly scheduled Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. A rolling 6-week schedule includes evening shifts two evenings and one weekend.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for you who are a licensed nurse in Sweden. It is an advantage if you are a trained specialist nurse in palliative care, elderly care, or district nursing, or another focus that the employer deems equivalent.

You need to have previous experience of working as a nurse, and it is advantageous if you have worked as a nurse in municipal health and medical care. We consider it extra advantageous if you have also worked in home healthcare before. It is also advantageous if you have worked as care staff in municipal care and support.

Since the work involves documentation and contact with patients and relatives, it is a requirement that you have good knowledge of Swedish, both written and spoken. Experience with documentation systems is required. You also need a B driver's license for manual transmission and must be able to cycle.

As a person, you work well with others, listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts constructively. Furthermore, you have the ability to lead and coordinate work by creating engagement and participation. You also understand how individuals absorb knowledge and can therefore adapt how you convey information to achieve common goals.

In your work, you can plan, organize, and prioritize your work and find it easy to adapt to changing circumstances. You make correct assessments and have the ability to weigh complex information and different types of considerations.

Additional Information

When you apply for a position in Linköping Municipality, you register your application by logging in via e-identification (such as BankID or FrejaID) instead of using an email address. If you lack e-identification, please contact the responsible HR consultant or manager, and they will help you register your application.

Start date: By agreement

Employment type: Permanent position

Employment rate: 100%

Number of vacancies: 3

Ref. no: 16765

In this application, you do not attach a personal letter.

Your engagement makes us better. Within Linköping Municipality, there are many opportunities, a wealth of knowledge, and various areas of responsibility. We work together where your sense of responsibility is a valuable driving force. With your engagement, you contribute to making Linköping even better.