Department of Geriatrics, Rehabilitation Medicine and Pain Centre

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 challenges and fantastic events, within a strong community of colleagues. We welcome your application!

Our Operations

The Department of Geriatrics, Rehabilitation Medicine and Pain Centre is characterized by well-functioning interprofessional teams, something we are very proud of. Our department has a broad mandate where work is meaningful, exciting, and developing. There are good opportunities to participate in development work and research; in our work, we translate new knowledge into care.

We want you to feel welcome here. As a new employee, you are offered supervision, an induction program, and professional networks. We are experts in rehabilitation but always strive to become even better. As part of this, there is a strong focus on research and progress, both within and outside the hospital, where you as an employee are an important part of this.

Within the Section of Health Professions, we have nine wards with staff covering the entire hospital within somatic adult care. We are now looking for a new colleague to the ward Health Professions Orthopedics & Hand Surgery. Here, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapy assistants, and social workers work within orthopedics and hand surgery. Our ward is characterized by good camaraderie, high competence, and great engagement. We have several development projects underway, and we would like you to grow in your role with us.

Your Role

We are now looking for a physiotherapist on 100% with a focus on orthopedic outpatient care. The work involves assessing and treating patients with orthopedic injuries, primarily from the back and shoulder.

In the back area, you work together with a spine surgeon and perform an initial examination and assessment of patients with back problems. A few weeks after spine surgery, you independently conduct an initial follow-up before the patient continues their rehabilitation in primary care.

In the shoulder area, you work independently with rehabilitation after shoulder surgery, such as large rotator cuff repairs and prosthetic surgeries.

You will be part of a work group with skilled and generous colleagues, and several of the physiotherapists hold specialist competence in orthopedics.

The role may involve staffing all parts of our operations within the Health Professions Orthopedics & Hand Surgery ward, both outpatient and inpatient, on a short and long-term basis. We work in several different areas and there are good opportunities for development. The role may also include supervising students and teaching internally and externally.

In your work, you should be able to prioritize and manage your working time, and you will arrange your time according to the needs of the patients and the operations, which may vary.

As Akademiska Sjukhuset is a university hospital with a mandate to provide healthcare and research, you will also have the opportunity to help develop care for our patients.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a licensed physiotherapist. We consider it meritorious if you have a few years of experience in orthopedic outpatient and/or inpatient care, primary care, or similar.

Your Competence

Great importance is attached to personal suitability, good collaboration and organizational skills, ability to prioritize and work independently and patient-centered. As a person, you are secure, flexible, structured, and solution-oriented. You have good self-awareness and enjoy working both independently and in teams, contributing your knowledge and competence.

We Offer

We offer a permanent position with a work time of 100% with an start date of 2026-08-17 or as agreed.

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?

Ward Manager Maria Wennström, [email protected], 018-617 14 96

A union representative can be reached via the switchboard, 018-611 00 00

Do you want to work with us?

Please submit your application via the link below. Interviews and appointments may take place continuously during the application period, so do not wait to submit your application.

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 making 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 compulsory care of addicts, areas covered by voluntary record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks at present are not intended to mainly contain work with the above-mentioned patient groups.

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