Occupational Therapist to the Rehabilitation Unit

The Rehabilitation Unit is responsible for the rehabilitation of patients admitted to home healthcare, nursing homes, short-term units, and day activities within elderly care, disability services, and social psychiatry. The operation is part of the health and care sector, Skövde municipality.

The health and care sector has an important social mission. We work with support, service, care, and assistance for people of all ages, and our operations are characterized by professionalism and human values.

Here we work together as a team. We help and support each other when needed. You are surrounded by high competence, experienced colleagues, and managers. In the role of occupational therapist, you also receive so much back from those you are there for.

To provide the best conditions for our patients and for our employees to succeed and develop at work, development work and continuous improvements are our focus. We want to be at the forefront of what we do.

As an employee with us, you are important; we want you to stay. We offer mentorship and a tailored introduction for all new employees, as well as ongoing training and professional development.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The work of an occupational therapist within home healthcare is independent and involves assessing, planning, organizing, and implementing rehabilitation efforts, assistive device assessments, and treatments for the patients you are responsible for.

The work is varied and requires you to be flexible and able to quickly prioritize when circumstances change. You work to ensure that the patient's daily life functions, for example, by resolving the transfer situation upon discharge from the hospital, training ADL, optimizing sitting, and compensating for cognitive impairment.

You are jointly responsible for the patient's rehabilitation process with the physiotherapist and participate in interdisciplinary teams together with nurses, nursing assistants, care assessors, and unit managers. You also have close contact with relatives and are an important link in the care chain. As an occupational therapist with us, you are responsible for guiding and delegating tasks to care and support staff and providing support to other team members around the patient. Contributing to the improvement work of the organization is a natural part of your job.

Solution-focused and unpretentious collaboration is a significant part of your role and a success factor in the assignment. You need to be able to work with both acute issues and long-term goals.

We work daytime on weekdays.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for a licensed occupational therapist who appreciates the breadth and variety within home healthcare. Experience from municipal rehabilitation or similar is an advantage.

You are a positive person with good communication skills who easily builds relationships with colleagues, patients, and relatives. You are confident and work independently but also take responsibility in teamwork through close collaboration with other professionals. You are flexible and have the ability to prioritize when necessary. You master the Swedish language both in speech and writing. A B driver's license for a manual transmission vehicle is a requirement. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

OTHER

Working in Skövde Municipality

In Skövde Municipality, we work with everything from care, support, and education to infrastructure, maintenance, cultural life, and growth. We have hundreds of professions and 5,500 employees. The work varies depending on which operation we are in, but we all represent the same employer, Skövde Municipality, and our common mission is to be a welfare provider, community developer, and employer. Equal, equitable, and inclusive operations are a given for us.

As an employee in Skövde Municipality, you are an important player in a team that delivers services and support to our customers every day, all year round. It is in the meeting with our customers that the value of our work arises. We invest in you as an employee and offer professional development, favorable pension conditions, wellness grants, as well as several wellness activities and offers. And best of all, we have room for more.

Read more about us as an employer: https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/ (https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/)

Read more about the health and care sector: https://www.skovde.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/tjanstepersonsorganisation/sektor-vard-och-omsorg/ (https://www.skovde.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/tjanstepersonsorganisation/sektor-vard-och-omsorg/)

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