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Do you want to help people achieve an independent life? Do you want to become part of a team with great job satisfaction and high engagement?

We are looking for occupational therapists who want to work rehabilitatively for our elderly population and create conditions for individuals to live as independently as possible. Do you want to join our team? Apply today!

About the workplace

We are a total of 20 occupational therapists working within the Health and Care Administration's 19 care homes, the short-term unit, and the 24-hour relief service.

What we offer

We offer you a varied, responsible, and stimulating job with opportunities for personal development. The workplace is smoke-free and health-conscious. As an employee, you receive an annual wellness allowance of 3,000 SEK.

Job Responsibilities

As an occupational therapist with us, you work to enable individuals to live as independently as possible. You share the overall rehabilitation responsibility with a physiotherapist. You are specifically responsible for P-ADL (Personal Activities of Daily Living) and I-ADL (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living) through assessment, training, evaluation, and follow-up, as well as the fitting and follow-up of technical aids based on the occupational therapist's prescription rights. We work with quality registers such as Senior Alert and BPSD.

The role also includes informing, instructing, and supervising staff, tenants, and students regarding rehabilitative and preventive measures.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a licensed occupational therapist with good knowledge of current legislation, such as HSL (Health and Medical Services Act) and SoL (Act of Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments). You must have good computer skills and experience with documentation.

Previous experience working in municipal primary care is meritorious. It is considered a plus to have good knowledge of Lifecare and to be confident in the prescription process.

Your personal qualities are important to us

We need someone who has a genuine interest in working with people and meets each individual based on their needs and wishes. You should be self-assured and comfortable working independently and supervising others.

You need to be flexible and solution-focused. You are the one who always sees the team as an asset and contributes to its success.

Working in Helsingborg Municipality

Do you want to help create a better city together with the citizens of Helsingborg? Then you should work for Helsingborg Municipality. Here you can use your creativity and drive to make life easier and safer for our residents, visitors, and businesses. Together with curious and helpful colleagues, you make a difference in people's lives, both today and in the future. A good job today, a better city tomorrow.

Health and Care Administration

At the Health and Care Administration, we work with people. Real people. People who, just like you, live their lives. We are approximately 4,500 employees – from assistant nurses, support assistants, nurses, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists to economists, investigators, and social workers who in various ways contribute to ensuring that the city's elderly and people with disabilities can live a rich and independent life.

Read more about what it is like to work in the city here: https://vardochomsorg.helsingborg.se/jobba-hos-oss/ (https://vardochomsorg.helsingborg.se/jobba-hos-oss/)

Additional Information

As an employee, you have a manager. You will have a main placement at one of our units, but you are employed within the operational area. It is always the patient's needs that dictate the work, which may mean that you work both generally and at other units when a need arises.

To respect each other's time and expectations, we request that you state your salary requirements and start date in your application.

Selection is ongoing. The position may be filled before the application period ends.

Last application date: 2026-06-14

Helsingborg Municipality works against discrimination and for the promotion of equal rights and opportunities for all people. Applicants of all backgrounds are welcome to apply to Helsingborg Municipality. To ensure quality in the recruitment process, we use the recruitment tool ReachMee. Therefore, we ask you to submit your application via ReachMee by clicking the application link in the ad. Before employment at the Health and Care Administration, we require you to present a valid extract from the police criminal record in an unopened envelope. You can order a criminal record extract now to speed up the recruitment process: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/) Before employment, we will conduct a citizenship check. You will need to present a passport, national ID card, or personal certificate. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must also prove a valid work permit or that you are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit according to the Aliens Ordinance Chapter 6, Section 13a. The position is filled on the condition that it does not need to be taken by already permanently employed staff. If you are a job seeker with protected personal data, please contact the hiring manager mentioned in the ad, who will guide you through a secure application process. Do not apply digitally via the application link. Union representatives https://intranat.helsingborg.se/hr/samverkan-och-delaktighet/fackliga-foretradare/ (https://intranat.helsingborg.se/hr/samverkan-och-delaktighet/fackliga-foretradare/) As we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use for this recruitment, we kindly but firmly decline to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.