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Are you a trained social worker looking to work in social care within highly specialized healthcare? Here, you will have the opportunity to work closely with patients, relatives, and multidisciplinary teams in a unit that actively develops psychosocial care. We welcome your application to our team in Solna!

What we offer

• Individually tailored introduction
• Continuous competence development based on both your personal interests and the region's competency steps for counselors
• Close collaboration with other counselors and various professional categories
• Broad experience in highly specialized care
• The opportunity to be a vital part of providing patients and relatives with the best possible support during their hospital stay, thereby contributing to high-quality care.

Of course, you will also benefit from our general benefits offered by Karolinska University Hospital.

About the position

We are now looking for a counselor for our counseling group within the Cancer and Women's Health sections in Solna at Karolinska University Hospital. The unit works interprofessionally and has an active focus on developing psychosocial care for patients and relatives.

As a counselor, you work with crisis, social, and psychosocial investigation, assessment, and treatment work from a holistic perspective of the individual. The work takes place in close collaboration with medical teams and other professional categories, where the counselor plays an important and active role.

Responsibilities include, among other things:

• Holding crisis and support conversations with patients and relatives
• Working in medical teams around the patient
• Providing advice on social issues
• Communicating with authorities
• Collaborating with other healthcare providers and voluntary organizations
• Supervising social work students

The position is a permanent employment.

We are looking for someone who

• Takes responsibility for your tasks and drives processes forward independently
• Is relationship-building and establishes and maintains professional collaborations
• Has a holistic view and acts based on the best interests of the unit and the patient
• Works structurally by planning, organizing, and prioritizing your work effectively

Great emphasis is placed on personal qualities.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Degree in Social Work (Social Worker)
• Good proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written

Merits:

• Licens as a healthcare counselor with eligibility to work in Sweden
• Experience in counseling within healthcare

About the recruitment process

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period.

In connection with your application, you need to attach a CV. Instead of a cover letter, we ask you to answer selection questions and briefly motivate why you are suitable for the role. Answering the questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

Apply now - Together we are Karolinska!

Before appointing a position involving care for children and adolescents, the person offered the position will be checked against the suspicion and criminal record register. You can read more about the recruitment process and the checks performed at Karolinska here.

As an employee at Karolinska University Hospital, you may be called upon for wartime duties. Read more about what this entails here.

If you are or have previously been employed by Region Stockholm, we will take internal references from your current or former manager, should you become a candidate for employment.

For permanent positions, a probationary period may be applied.

About Karolinska University Hospital

We at Karolinska University Hospital are proud to be one of the world's leading university hospitals. In addition to our special responsibility for highly specialized care in the Stockholm region, our main mission is to train tomorrow's healthcare professionals and conduct world-leading research together with Karolinska Institutet, while continuing our work to develop care for the benefit of the patient. We work within a range of different areas and professions.

Our vision - We shall cure and alleviate tomorrow what no one can cure and alleviate today.

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Theme: Women's Health and Health Professions

Women's Health covers all activities within reproductive medicine, benign gynecological care, pregnancy, childbirth, and fetal medicine care in both Huddinge and Solna. We also have a national highly specialized assignment within fetal medicine. You can read more about us here.

Health professions; physiotherapists, occupational therapists, counselors, dietitians, speech therapists, and psychologists meet patients' needs and create added value in collaboration with other professions within all of the hospital's themes and functions.

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