Job Advertisement: Nurse for Ambulance Services

The Hospitals in the West is an administration within the Västra Götaland Region and consists of four hospitals – Alingsås Hospital, Angered Local Hospital, Högsbo Local Hospital, and Kungälv Hospital. Approximately 3000 employees work with us every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare of the highest quality.

Welcome to our joint recruitment!

This advertisement applies to the ambulance services in both Kungälv and Alingsås. Regardless of which location you wish to be placed in, you apply via the same advertisement – we look forward to your application!

Description

The Kungälv ambulance service consists of four ambulance stations: Ale, Kungälv, Stenungsund, and Tjörn, as well as a unit for non-emergency patient transport. The ambulance service employs 53 permanent staff members.

The Alingsås ambulance service consists of two ambulance stations: Alingsås and Lerum. The ambulance service employs approximately 45 permanent staff members.

Job Responsibilities

As a nurse in the ambulance service, you play an active role in planning, executing, and being responsible for the tasks within ambulance healthcare based on the Health and Medical Services Act, the Patient Safety Act, and directives from the ambulance chief physician. The nurse in the ambulance should, from an ethical standpoint, contribute to good patient care, a positive work environment, and excellent patient interactions.

Orientation training starts on 26-05-01.

Qualifications

We are looking for a licensed nurse; prehospital further education is highly meritorious. A driver's license with at least B category is required, and it is highly meritorious if you have C/C1 category as we will only have ambulances that require heavier licenses in the future.

Emergency driver training is highly meritorious, as well as good local knowledge of the geographical areas in the ambulance districts. You should have good physical ability as we conduct physical tests. We will place great importance on personal suitability, where flexibility and the ability to work independently are important aspects.

The recruitment process includes checks with IVO, the National Board of Health and Welfare, the Swedish Transport Agency, and extracts from the suspicion and criminal records.

Test days for Kungälv are 26-01-21 and 26-02-18. Test days for Alingsås are 26-02-05 and 26-02-20.

Employment Type

This is a fixed-term employment until 2026-08-31 with the possibility of extension.

Work Location

Please specify in your application if you wish to work in Kungälv or Alingsås.

Other

Selection and interviews will take place on an ongoing basis.

We welcome your application!

About the Västra Götaland Region

The Västra Götaland Region exists for the people of Västra Götaland. We ensure that there is good health and medical care for everyone. We work for sustainable development and growth, a good environment, improved public health, a rich cultural life, and good communications throughout Västra Götaland.

The Västra Götaland Region actively works to digitize more work methods. To be part of the digital transformation, you should possess basic skills and be able to use digital tools and services. You can search for information, communicate, interact digitally, are risk-aware, and have the motivation to participate in development to learn new things.

The Västra Götaland Region places all permanent employees in war service.

If you want to know more about the Västra Götaland Region, you can visit our introduction for new employees at the link here (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion). You can also read more in the presentation here (https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate).

Application

The Västra Götaland Region prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you, as an applicant, have questions about the advertised position or for specific reasons cannot register your information in a public system - please contact the contact person for the respective advertisement.

To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you as a seller: We kindly but firmly request no direct contact with staffing, placement, and recruitment companies as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job advertisements. The Västra Götaland Region has contracted agreements.