Psychiatry Department

We are Akademiska Sjukhuset – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a county hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we offer healthcare to two million people in Central Sweden. Something is always happening here – a new life is born, a grandmother undergoes surgery, a colleague is hailed as a hero. Here, you will experience both tough trials and fantastic events, within a strong community with colleagues. We welcome your application!

Our Operations

The Psychiatry Department provides highly specialized care for individuals with severe mental illnesses. Psychiatry Ward 3A is a 24-hour care unit with 13 beds for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients primarily suffering from affective disorders, such as bipolar syndrome, severe depression, and anxiety disorders. The ward also treats patients with eating disorder issues. Four of the beds are dedicated to this treatment.

Your Role

Working on Ward 3A is an exciting role where you will meet many people in various situations. You will be part of a team that supports and helps each other, while also working independently. The team includes doctors, nursing assistants, care assistants, nurses, specialist nurses, and social workers. Patients arrive both urgently and by appointment, and the pace of work can be high at times.

As a nursing assistant, you will primarily engage in basic psychiatric and somiatric nursing care close to the patient. You will care for patients with a wide variation of care needs. In collaboration with colleagues from other professional categories, you will participate in planning the patient's care and treatment. You will engage in supportive conversations and documentation, as well as perform sample collections and examinations. The workplace is stimulating and offers a mix of somatic and psychiatric care. The role also includes supervising nursing assistant students.

Your Qualifications

• Trained nursing assistant through the three-year (2500 credits) Nursing and Care Program at upper secondary school, the Nursing and Care Program at Komvux (adult education), three terms (minimum 1350 credits), or another equivalent nursing assistant education. (In cases of other equivalent education within municipal adult education or older nursing assistant or care assistant educations, an individual assessment is made.)
• Meritorious with documented experience working in specialist psychiatric care.

Your Competence

You have a genuine interest in psychiatric nursing. During the hiring process, we place great emphasis on your personal suitability. We expect you to always have the patient at the center and to treat patients, relatives, and colleagues with respect and humility. You have the ability to communicate and adapt your communication to the different needs you encounter. As a person, you are positive, engaged, and meticulous. It is important that you have a genuine interest in working with people with psychiatric issues and want to contribute to the development of our operations. You master basic medical-technical tasks at the nursing assistant level, such as venous blood sampling, ECG examinations, and wound care. You enjoy supervising students and feel confident in that role.

We Offer

A permanent position with a start date as agreed. A probationary period may apply. Before employment, extracts from the suspicion and criminal records will be requested.

Here, you will receive benefits that make a difference. Read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/ (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/)).

Want to know more?

Acting Ward Manager Johanna Johansson tel. 018-617 08 37
Other trade unions can be reached via Region Uppsala's switchboard 018-611 00 00

Do you want to work with us?

We welcome your application via the link below.

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

Region Uppsala mobilizes all permanent staff based on the needs of the total defense. This means no obligations for the individual employee in peacetime; it is solely a planning measure.

Before a decision on employment, checks of the suspicion and criminal records are conducted for all job seekers who may work in psychiatric healthcare, habilitation, child and youth care, or involuntary care of addicts in the sought position, areas covered by optional record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work close to 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 decline phone calls from recruitment agencies and advertising sales.