Vacant job

Do you want to work with advanced nursing care within both medicine and surgery? Then our wonderful department is just what you are looking for!

What we offer

• A tailored introduction adapted to you.
• The opportunity to join a stable work group with experienced colleagues, offering stimulating, challenging, and educational work.
• The chance to develop within advanced nursing care and nutrition.
• Ongoing competence development at the department, as well as personal competence development using the competence steps to create clear career paths.

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

About the position

The Ward for Gastroenterology and Surgery is a mixed medical and surgical ward focusing on inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal failure, intestinal dysmotility, and rare gastrointestinal diseases.

We are now looking for you who are curious about our inpatient ward. Here, we work dedicatedly around our mission to care for the most seriously ill patients in our field. Click here to see more about what it is like to work with us (#).

As a nurse with us, you will have a fun, developing, and stimulating job. You will be involved in development and improvement work that constantly moves us and our care forward. Here, we treat patients with, among other things, drains, central lines, stomas, fistula issues, and EDA (Enteral/Parenteral Nutrition). You will gain broad competence covering both medical and surgical care, as well as care for chronically and acutely ill patients.

The position involves working during days and evenings, as well as 2 out of 5 weekends.

We are looking for you who

• Are secure, stable, and have self-insight. You see relationships in their proper perspective, distinguish between the personal and professional, and behave in a way adapted to the situation.
• See the big picture and consider the broader perspective. You understand your role but always consider the best interests of the entire operation in actions and decisions.
• Have the ability to put yourself in someone else's perspective or situation without taking over the person's feelings.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Registered Nurse (RN).

Merits:

• Experience in surgical nursing.
• Experience in Gastroenterology.
• Experience in emergency care.

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 these questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

We warmly welcome your application – Together we are Karolinska!

In connection with the appointment of a position involving care for children and young people, the person offered the position will be checked against the suspicion and burden register. Read more here about the recruitment process and the checks performed at Karolinska (#).

As an employee at Karolinska University Hospital, you may be mobilized for war service. 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 if you become a candidate for employment.

For permanent positions, a probationary period may apply.

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 educate 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.

You can read more about our mission within care, research, and education here (#).

Our vision: We shall cure and relieve tomorrow what no one can cure and relieve today.

Please read more about us at karolinska.se (https://www.karolinska.se) and follow us on social media!

Theme Inflammation & Aging

The Theme Inflammation and Aging includes internal medical specialties such as endocrinology and metabolism, nephrology, gastroenterology, and pulmonology, as well as geriatrics, rheumatology, dermatology, and venereology.

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Applying for a job in Region Stockholm

We strive for gender equality and equity in our workplace and welcome applicants with different backgrounds and conditions.

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Region Stockholm is responsible for healthcare, public transport, regional development, and contributes to cultural life. Every day, around the clock. In the country's fastest-growing region. Together we are creating Europe's most attractive metropolitan area.

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