Vacant job

NU Hospital, part of the Region of Västra Götaland, is one of Sweden's larger county hospitals. We are located at NÄL (Norra Älvsborg County Hospital) in Trollhättan and Uddevalla Hospital. Our catchment area covers 280,000 inhabitants. Together, we are approximately 5,000 employees working every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare. We are located on the west coast, and our area offers varied nature with both sea, mountains, forest, and lakes.

Are you a registered nurse with an interest in psychiatry or forensic psychiatry? Then you are the person we are looking for to strengthen our team.

Department 91

The Psychiatric Inpatient Clinic, Forensic Psychiatry, is looking for a nurse for Department 91, which is one of five forensic psychiatric departments located at Brinkåsen in Vänersborg.

The department's mission is to treat and rehabilitate patients who have been sentenced to forensic psychiatric care and who have a psychotic illness.

Responsibilities

We work in care teams based on contact personship and individually adapted care, with our forensic psychiatric care process as the starting point. As a nurse, you will have overall responsibility for nursing care within the care team and be responsible for various medical interventions.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a registered nurse or specialist nurse in psychiatry. We work in teams with other professions here at Brinkåsen and have continuous contact with each other. We place great emphasis on personal suitability and ability to collaborate.

Experience in psychiatric nursing is meritorious but not a requirement.

Clinical Foundation Year

As a newly graduated nurse, you are included in the Clinical Foundation Year with regular mentor meetings at the department. Read more about the clinical foundation year here: https://www.nusjukvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/jobba-somsjukskoterska/kliniskt-basar-for-sjukskoterskor/ (https://www.nusjukvarden.se/jobba-hos-oss/jobba-somsjukskoterska/kliniskt-basar-for-sjukskoterskor/)

Interviews take place continuously throughout the application period.

When appointing staff within psychiatry, we always request extracts from the suspicion and criminal records. This request is handled by the employer.

We welcome your application!

Other

The position may be placed in a security class. This means that security clearance and register control may be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Security Protection Act before employment.

About the Region of Västra Götaland

With us, you become part of a larger whole. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives throughout Västra Götaland every day.

You contribute to safe and equal healthcare as well as a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life.

We are in the middle of a digital development where you get to shape the working methods of the future to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations.

As a permanent employee, you are mobilized as part of our shared responsibility for ensuring that socially important functions continue to work even in a crisis.

Want to know more about us? On our website, you can read more about our benefits and meet employees who make a difference and develop in their professions every day. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ (https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/)

Application

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