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Do you want to work in an organization where a holistic view, teamwork, and the patient's entire life situation are in focus? We are now looking for an engaged counselor for the Rheumatology Clinic.

Job Responsibilities

Here, as a counselor, you will have a significant and developing role where you make a real difference in people's lives. You meet patients who have lived with the diagnosis for a long time and may need temporary support, as well as people who have recently received a rheumatic diagnosis. You work to support them in handling the challenges the disease may entail, both emotionally, socially, and physically, such as pain and fatigue.

The position offers a varied daily routine with both individual patient meetings and close collaboration in multidisciplinary teams. You work with support conversations, crisis processing, motivational interviewing, and psychosocial assessments, while contributing your expertise to create a holistic picture of the patient's situation and needs.

At the clinic, we work in a team-based manner and have, among other things, special teams focused on chronic pain, where the counselor's contribution is an important part of the patient's rehabilitation and well-being. You also get the opportunity to be involved in the organization's development and improvement work and contribute to future care.

The position also includes a role as a rehabilitation coordinator (approx. 25%), where you coordinate rehabilitation efforts and support patients on their path back to work and daily life.

About the Workplace

The Rheumatology Clinic offers specialist care to patients with inflammatory and other rheumatic diseases. The operations include outpatient clinics, day care for infusion treatments and a rehab unit, as well as a smaller number of inpatient beds at Västmanland Hospital in Västerås. We work in multidisciplinary teams where different competencies collaborate to give patients the best possible care and support.

We offer stimulating and meaningful work in a well-functioning team where your competence makes a big difference for the patients. You get the opportunity to combine patient-facing work with development work and influence the content of the operations. Here, there are good opportunities for competence development, and we value a good work environment where collaboration, engagement, and quality are in focus.

We also offer you:

• a tailored introduction program to make you feel safe and secure in your professional role
• opportunities for competence development through, for example, internal training
• a workplace for all stages of life
• free training in our fully equipped gym
• health allowance of 3000 SEK/year

More about your benefits can be found here: https://regionvastmanland.se/jobba-med-oss/dina-formaner/ (https://regionvastmanland.se/jobba-med-oss/dina-formaner/)

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are educated as a social worker and who preferably have a few years of experience working as a counselor. If you are a licensed healthcare counselor, we see it as an advantage, as does basic psychotherapy training (step 1). We would like you to have experience with conversational methods and motivational interviewing. If you have also worked within healthcare or had assignments as a rehabilitation coordinator, it is a great advantage.

To thrive here, we believe you have a genuine commitment to people living with long-term illness. You are confident in your profession and have an easy time creating trusting meetings with people in different life situations. You work independently and structured, while appreciating the close collaboration in multidisciplinary teams and actively contributing your competence.

We value that you are proactive and want to be involved in developing both the operations and your own work. Since the role of rehabilitation coordinator involves collaboration with external actors and responsibility for coordination, it is important that you have a good ability to plan, organize, and structure your work effectively.

Employment Terms

Permanent position, full-time.
Daytime Monday - Friday.
We apply individual and differentiated salary setting.

Application

Welcome to submit your application by June 14, 2026.

• When applying, you should only attach your CV and preferably relevant grades/certificates.
• You will also be asked to answer a number of questions included in our selection assessment.
• We do not use cover letters in our recruitment process.

Read more about the region's recruitment process and how to format a good CV here: https://regionvastmanland.se/jobba-med-oss/att-soka-jobb-i-region-vastmanland/ (https://regionvastmanland.se/jobba-med-oss/att-soka-jobb-i-region-vastmanland/)

If you are called for an interview, these will take place on June 16th and 17th.

Protected Personal Data

If you have protected personal data, you should not apply via our recruitment system or via email. Instead, contact the recruiting manager or Recruitment Support [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) who can inform you about how to submit your application securely. (Do not attach personal data)

About the Region

If you want to know more about what it is like to work here, you can see more on the region's Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/regionvastmanland/ (https://www.instagram.com/regionvastmanland/)

We at Västmanland County Council are responsible for health, medical, and dental care for everyone living in the county. We also work with everything from public transport and culture to business issues, education, and research. Together we are 7,000 employees, with 300 different professions, on ten locations. We are in the middle of what affects people's lives. Every day. Together we are driven by creating a better society for everyone who lives and works here. We develop and find new solutions to meet people – where they are. That is how we can live up to the high expectations of our commissioners and residents. Together we make a difference. For real.

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