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Curious about psychiatry?

Do you want to be part of a flexible and patient-centered operation? The Psychiatric Clinic offers rewarding and exciting clinical work, opportunities to broaden and deepen your skills, and a variety of career development paths for all professional groups.

The Psychiatric Clinic in Linköping is a university hospital with many different operations. The clinic consists of outpatient and inpatient care, a detoxification unit, and an emergency unit. In addition, we have mobile operations; the mobile outpatient team and prehospital acute psychiatric mobility (psychiatric ambulance). You will find our operations in the newly built Tinnerbäckshuset on the hospital grounds.

We are now looking for a nurse for our inpatient department s-81, focusing on affective disorders, planned and acute eating disorder care, planned admissions, and SI - Self-Selected Admission.

Lengths of stay in our department vary, meaning the work consists of everything from emergency care to planned admissions. The patients primarily have psychiatric issues, but somatic comorbidity is common, making medical-technical tasks a part of the daily work.

Job Description

As a nurse, you have a central and supervisory role on the department, where you are responsible for daily tasks and for leading the nursing work. In addition to main duties such as medication management, participating in rounds, reporting, and social planning in collaboration with external actors, a large part of the work focuses on supporting and working closely with the patient regarding their individual nursing needs.

The work is creative; we work closely with the patient and base our approach on their resources and skills. For a couple of years, we have worked from a recovery-oriented approach, and we see how care has shifted from a more traditional attitude to being driven by increasingly flexible and patient-centered care where the patient's experience and needs are always our starting point. This in turn makes the daily work more meaningful and developmental.

Here, you become part of a cross-professional and highly engaged team where, as a nurse, you collaborate closely with doctors, care assistants, counselors, and occupational therapists.

We value a good work climate focused on respect, security, and community. We continuously work to create a safe and enabling work environment where the focus is on communication.

Development - Our nurses want to develop, and the clinic has therefore invested in strengthened nursing competence. In recent years, we have allowed our nurses to take responsibility and steer the development of nursing, working to ensure that the latest research is understandable and usable in our clinical daily life.

For development both in daily life and in the long term, we have several forums for reflection, profession-specific meetings, supervision, as well as daily debriefing after the end of work shifts.

As a nurse, there are many opportunities to develop and advance your career within the clinic. As an employee, you are offered both internal and external training. As a nurse, you have the opportunity through your employer to receive paid further education to become a specialist nurse in psychiatry, with an extra salary supplement after completing the education.

As a new nurse, you are offered a personally tailored introduction and mentorship from an experienced nurse as long as the need exists. We offer present leadership, and you will have support from the nearest manager who is easily accessible within the department.

About You

We are looking for you who are a registered nurse. Experience in psychiatric care and/or a specialist nurse degree is considered meritorious, but we also encourage you without psychiatric experience to apply. With the right curiosity and a desire to do the best for the patient, you will develop and learn together with us! As a new nurse, you are offered a personally tailored introduction and mentorship from an experienced nurse as long as the need exists. We offer present leadership, and you will have support from the nearest manager who is easily accessible within the department.

We are looking for you who have the ability to see both the patient's needs and resources. You are driven by a patient-centered approach and value flexibility and creativity in nursing work. You thrive in an environment where you get the opportunity to use and develop your personal qualities and resources, while contributing to the continuous development of our operations.

Application and Employment

The work involves rotational service.

Do you have questions about the position, or would you like to observe our inpatient care? Call or email recruitment manager Oskar Bäck or unit manager Therese Nilsson, contact details are in the information below.

Before employment in a patient-oriented role within Region Östergötland, you will be asked to fill out a health declaration.

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