Job Advertisement: Contact Nurse for the Ear-Nose-Throat Clinic

Region Västerbotten works to ensure that good health and sustainable development strengthen each other. We take responsibility for equitable welfare and for ensuring that research and innovation yield results.

The Ear-Nose-Throat clinic is part of the Neuro-Head-Neck Center. We are a dynamic and modern clinic with a broad field of work ranging from regional healthcare to highly specialized care within the Northern healthcare region, primarily in advanced tumor, trauma, otosurgery, phoniatrics, and audiology.

We offer a stimulating work environment with a pleasant atmosphere. We are now looking for a colleague to join our team who wants to help create a good reception and care for our patients at the Ear-Nose-Throat clinic. We have close collaboration among all staff categories that promotes a good work environment. We meet various patients daily, which varies our workday positively.

At the Ear-Nose-Throat clinic, there are 6 nurses and eight nursing assistants, as well as several doctors. It is a fun, varied, and challenging job where you have the opportunity to learn new things every day in a wonderful workgroup. We always help each other, and we have good collaboration with other professional groups within the Ear-Nose-Throat department. The focus is always on the patient. We offer a varied and developing job where your skills are utilized for the benefit of the organization and the patient. If you choose to work with us, you will encounter various paths for your personal development within the profession.

The Ear-Nose-Throat unit is also linked to the Department of Clinical Science within the Faculty of Medicine at Umeå University.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a contact nurse with us, you contribute knowledge and engagement that makes people feel secure.

In the role of contact nurse, you have overall responsibility for patients with head and neck cancer throughout the care chain. Through your role, you create security, continuity, and participation in care for both the patient and their relatives. The work involves being the primary responsible for a patient group where you conduct your own needs assessments, implement measures, evaluate, and refer contacts to other professional categories. You also participate in diagnosis notifications, provide ongoing information, and follow-up conversations. You have close collaboration with the existing contact nurse and tumor coordinators as well as tumor doctors. Together with the tumor team, you work on the development of organization and routines.

The position also includes some standard tasks at the clinic such as caring for acute and planned outpatient patients and telephone counseling.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for an experienced licensed nurse who has a commitment and interest in working closely with patients. It is important that you want to meet the patient from a holistic perspective and that you have an open mind and curiosity to learn. If you feel that you are a person who enjoys working both in a team and individually and want to continue developing in your professional role, this job is for you.

Oncological experience is an advantage, but we primarily value personal suitability.

We see that you are interested in development and want to drive improvement work. You need to be proactive, have the ability to work independently, and structure your day, which is varied.

The employment is a permanent position. Interviews are conducted continuously, so send in your application today!

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Read more about our benefits for those who work with us on our website here (https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner).

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, and therefore welcome applicants from different backgrounds.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply, please contact the recruiting manager and then send your application documents by post.