Vacant job

Do you want to become part of Region Jämtland Härjedalen – a region to look forward to and grow in? With us, you contribute to development and growth throughout the county and work to offer the best possible service, care, and support to everyone who lives in or visits the region.

We offer a work environment characterized by collaboration, participation, and engagement, where both broad skills and specialized expertise are valued. Here, you have the opportunity to develop in your professional role, whether you are new to the profession or have extensive experience.

Now there is a unique opportunity for you as a nurse!

We are looking for a colleague for the orthopedic clinic, with an initial placement within the back surgery team.

The activity is part of the orthopedics area, and the orthopedic clinic's back surgery outpatient department is responsible for back surgery in the county.

At the back surgery clinic, a multidisciplinary team works consisting of orthopedic surgeons with specialist competence in back surgery, physiotherapists, nurses, social workers, and medical secretaries. The work at the back surgery clinic includes investigation and assessment prior to potential back surgery. The most common back surgeries concern herniated discs, spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal canal), and fusion surgeries.

In Region Jämtland Härjedalen, quality of life is in focus. Here, the magnificent nature is always close, and you live comfortably with good opportunities to fill your free time with experiences and activities. Our vision is good health, and we want to be a region that you look forward to and grow in.

With us, you work together with colleagues from many different professional groups, where both broad and specialized expertise are valued. As an employee, you also become a member of our staff association, which offers a wide range of fun activities and benefits.

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Job Responsibilities

We are looking for you who are a nurse with experience or interest in teamwork. You find it easy to collaborate and work together with other professions in a team. In the role, you will be a nurse with leadership responsibility in the team, where you have a leading role in following set goals and reporting back to the unit manager for the orthopedic clinic.

With us, you work daytime, Monday to Friday. You will have a broad and varied job with varying tasks, such as:

• Booking and planning of waiting lists
• Handling of referrals and administrative tasks included in the assignment
• Advice and contact with patients via phone and 1177
• Dressing changes
• Registration clinic
• Assisting work at doctor's clinics

All referrals to the back surgery clinic are reviewed and prioritized by a senior physician in orthopedics with a focus on back surgery. Thereafter, the patient is called to the back surgery clinic for assessment. The first visit involves a careful examination of the patient's back problems by a physiotherapist. At a subsequent patient conference, the patient's back problems are discussed and assessed by a doctor, physiotherapist, nurse, and social worker, after which a decision is made regarding further handling.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a licensed nurse with experience from the profession, which is a requirement.

It is meritorious if you have a few years of experience within orthopedics, alternatively experience of telephone advice, reception work, bookings in Cosmic, or work within orthopedic operations.

We value personal qualities such as good cooperation skills, responsibility-taking, flexibility, and stress tolerance. Meritorious previous leadership assignments as well as experience from Orthopedics. Requires that the applicant can work independently.

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Type of employment: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.

In Region Jämtland Härjedalen, our work is permeated by our core values: we create value for those we are here for, act with drive, and strive to always be perceived as reliable. With us, you have the opportunity to work in an organization where these values characterize everyday life and where your work really makes a difference.

As an employee, you get access to a wide range of benefits via our benefits portal. We care about your health and offer a fitness allowance or fitness hour. At Östersund Hospital, you can also train for free at the Zefyren gym and participate in leader-led sessions.

Selection and appointment may take place continuously during the advertising period, so we would appreciate it if you send in your application as soon as possible.

We have an established recruitment process and therefore kindly but firmly decline contact with advertising salespeople or other sellers of recruitment services.