Department of Forensic Psychiatry

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Our Operations

The Forensic Psychiatry Unit cares for patients who have been convicted of crimes and transferred to forensic psychiatric care. This means we receive patients with varying psychiatric conditions. At the unit, we work from a long-term perspective where, in addition to medication, nursing care, educational interventions, and psychological treatment with a focus on preventing recidivism are key components.

The Forensic Psychiatry Unit currently consists of two inpatient wards with a newly opened Security Level 2, Security Level 3, and an outpatient clinic. In April 2024, we moved to newly built premises in Jälla, outside Uppsala.

We are looking for you who, together with other staff members, want to help develop care for patients at the Forensic Psychiatry Unit. We can offer a stimulating workplace with a strong focus on nursing care, clinical content, and development. We value innovations and ideas, and work actively towards our vision:

"To deliver Sweden's best forensic psychiatric care, every day, around the clock!"

Your Role

As a nurse or specialist nurse on the ward, you assess, plan, and carry out specific nursing care. You have a leading role and bring a nursing perspective to the interprofessional team. We have long care periods and therefore place great emphasis on relationship-building work. You participate in quality and development work within your area of expertise.

We work with differentiated tasks depending on whether you are a basic registered nurse or have specialist training. As a specialist nurse, you have additional responsibility to lead and develop psychiatric nursing care together with other specialist nurses, both at the patient level and at the unit level. You provide collegial supervision.

Your Qualifications

You are an experienced nurse, a newly graduated nurse, or a specialist nurse in psychiatric nursing. Experience and knowledge of leadership at a general level, supervision of students, and experience in quality and development work within psychiatric care are desirable and meritorious but not mandatory.

Your Competencies

You are interested in developing in the leadership role. You are firmly grounded in the profession's code of ethics and do not hesitate to put it into practical action in relation to both patients and employees. You are proud of your profession, have good analytical and reflective abilities, and contribute nursing expertise to improve and develop care. Meritorious is experience of psychiatric care or forensic psychiatric care as well as an interest in healthcare development. A driver's license is meritorious. In the appointment, great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

We Offer

A permanent full-time position, day, evening, and weekend shifts, located at the Forensic Psychiatry Unit. Probation may be applied. Prior to employment, extracts from suspicion and criminal records will be obtained.

We offer stimulating work with great variation in tasks. Scientific improvement and development are seen as a natural part of the role. We offer professional supervision by a specialist nurse every week, and you have strong collegial support in the group. To ensure care quality, we actively work to develop a good and attractive working environment for nurses. This means we value and protect the nurse's autonomous professional practice, have high nursing competence, and continuously engage in development work within nursing. We would appreciate it if you have an interest in research and teaching in collaboration with Uppsala University.

With us, you receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (regionuppsala.se (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/)).

Want to know more?

• Ward Manager Maria Bruhn Lundblad, 018-611 22 26
• Deputy Ward Manager, Mathilda Iversen, 018-611 30 04
• Deputy Ward Manager, Lena Knutsson, 018-617 11 74
• Trade unions can be reached via Region Uppsala's switchboard 018-611 00 00

Do you want to work with us?

Welcome to submit 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, functionalities, 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 but is solely a planning measure.

Before a decision on employment, a check of suspicion and criminal records is conducted for all job seekers who in the sought employment may come to work within psychiatric healthcare, habilitation, care of children and youth, or involuntary care of addicts, areas covered by optional record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks at present are not intended to mainly involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is conducted entirely through Region Uppsala's efforts, and we decline telephone calls from recruitment agencies and advertising sales.