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Are you a trained social worker and drawn to working in healthcare social services? There is now an opportunity to become part of our operations in Huddinge. We welcome your application!

What we offer

• Individually tailored introduction
• Continuous competency development based on your own wishes/interests and the region's competency ladder for hospital social workers
• Close collaboration with other social workers and other professional categories
• Extensive experience in highly specialized care
• To be a key part of providing patients and their relatives with the best possible support during their hospital stay, thereby contributing to the patient receiving the best possible care.

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

About the position

The Women's Health Section offers a workplace where cross-professional collaboration is in focus and where psychosocial care is continuously developed. We are now looking for you who wants to become part of our social worker team!

As a social worker here, you work with crisis, social, and psychosocial investigation, assessment, and treatment from a holistic perspective of the individual. The role involves meeting patients and relatives in crisis, actively contributing to the medical team around the patient, providing counseling on social issues, and collaborating with authorities, other healthcare providers, and voluntary organizations. You also have an important role in supervising social work students and contributing to strengthening the curative competence within the organization.

The position is a full-time temporary assignment lasting until December 1, 2027.

We are looking for someone who

• Takes responsibility for your tasks, structures your own approach, and drives processes forward
• Is outgoing and socially active in professional contexts. You build contacts and maintain relationships
• Sees the big picture and considers the broader perspective. You understand your role but always consider the best interests of the entire organization in your actions and decisions
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes work effectively. You set and adhere to timeframes.

Qualifications

Requirements:

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

Merits:

• Authorization as a healthcare social worker with permission to work in Sweden
• Experience working as a social worker in 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 explain why you are suitable for the role. Answering these questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

For assistant nurse positions, we clarify under this heading that proof of protected professional title/degree must be sent with the application, and for managerial recruitment, information about tests will be added.

We warmly welcome your application – Together we are Karolinska!

Before appointing a position involving care for children and young people, the person offered the position will be checked against the suspicion and criminal record register. Here you can read more about the recruitment process and what checks are performed at Karolinska.

As an employee at Karolinska University Hospital, you may be assigned to 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 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 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 patients. We work within a wide range of areas and professions.

You can read more about our mission in care, research, and education here.

Our vision – To cure and alleviate tomorrow what no one can cure and alleviate today.

Please read more about us on karolinska.se and follow us on social media!

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 mission within fetal medicine. Here you can read more about us.

Health professions; physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, dietitians, speech therapists, and psychologists meet patients' needs and create added value in collaboration with other professions across all hospital themes and functions.

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