Medical Unit of Rehabilitation

Our 1800 employees work with close care and health in Uppsala County. We offer a wide range of services within primary care. Our patients meet us at Region Uppsala's own health centers or within rehabilitation, and we provide advice over the phone via 1177. Education, research, and development are important to us, as we adapt our offerings based on the needs of the residents. We already offer mobile teams, video visits, and smart e-services.

Welcome to the Medical Unit of Rehabilitation!

We are expanding the dietitian group and offering a permanent full-time position as a dietitian starting by agreement. You will be part of a dietitian group with four other dietitians.

Region Uppsala and Close Care and Health invest in secure employment and good benefits through our collective agreement, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/ (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/)).

Your mission

Your tasks involve identifying and treating nutritional problems in patients with disabilities. We work both with the patient and, in many cases, their network. We meet adults and children with, for example, movement disabilities, various syndromes, intellectual disabilities, and autism. The goal is to achieve the best possible nutritional status in combination with a functioning meal situation. This is to provide conditions for a functional everyday life and the opportunity to benefit from other treatments. Our patients may, for example, need enteral nutrition, energy enrichment, or consistency-adapted diets. The work involves collaboration with healthcare neighbors, municipal activities, and various authorities.

Your qualifications

We are looking for a licensed dietitian, preferably with some years of experience. It is important that you have an interest in the target groups of rehabilitation, and it is good if you have previously worked with people with disabilities. The work requires good teamwork skills and you should enjoy and have experience working in teams, but also have the ability to work independently. A driver's license is a requirement.

As a person, you are clear in your communication and structured in your work approach. You have good pedagogical skills, are attentive, and can easily establish contact with both patients, relatives, and colleagues.

Our operations

The Medical Unit of Rehabilitation belongs to the Functional Disabilities area within the Close Care and Health administration in Region Uppsala. Rehabilitation is aimed at children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities; autism with or without intellectual disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and movement disabilities.

The medical unit aims to identify and address medical complications that may be associated with a disability. This may involve issues related to sleep, meal situations, or mental health. The unit has a close collaboration with rehabilitation units and cooperates with doctors at the Academic Hospital. The unit also has healthcare responsibility up to the nursing level for child residences, short-term residences for children and adolescents in Region Uppsala, short-term residences within LSS for adults, and certain HVB homes.

At the medical unit, nurses, dietitians, secretaries, and doctors work. We also have pediatric neurologists and ST doctors from the Academic Hospital, as well as a BUP consultant who holds clinics in our premises for certain children belonging to rehabilitation.

Want to know more?

If you have questions about us or the position, you are warmly welcome to contact the operations manager Lina Arvebro at email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

Union representatives can be reached via the switchboard: 018-611 00 00.

Application

Welcome with your application via the link below. Attach a copy of your license, CV, and other relevant documents that support your qualifications and experience. Please send in your application today as interviews may be conducted continuously during the application period.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to the organization and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala places all permanent staff based on the needs of total defense. This means that for the individual employee, there are no obligations in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a hiring decision, a check of suspicion and criminal records regarding all applicants who may work in psychiatric care, rehabilitation, care of children and adolescents, or compulsory care of substance abusers, areas that are subject to optional record extracts, will be conducted. This applies to all who will work closely with patients, even if the tasks are not currently intended to primarily involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is conducted entirely by Region Uppsala, and we kindly ask recruitment companies and advertisement sellers to refrain from calling.