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About Norra Stockholm Psychiatry

Norra Stockholm Psychiatry (NSP) is part of the Stockholm County Council Healthcare Area (SLSO) and is a university clinic with a comprehensive educational and research mandate. We offer both emergency and planned specialist psychiatric care for individuals over 18 years of age.

We provide outpatient care in Alvik and at St. Eriksplan, as well as inpatient care at the St. Göran's Hospital area. The clinic also operates Stockholm's only general psychiatric emergency department for adults, located at the St. Göran's Hospital area.

At our facility, multidisciplinary teams work with assessment, investigation, and treatment according to national guidelines and regional care programs. We have an active development work and conduct education and research in close collaboration with the Karolinska Institute.

Description

As an intermittent nursing assistant in adult psychiatric inpatient care, you work across the operation and serve as support for several departments based on current staffing and operational needs. The role involves being able to cover absences or reinforcement needs with short notice, thereby being an important resource in the operation.

Responsibilities

• Psychiatric nursing and care of patients in varying care situations
• Observation and reporting of patients' condition and behavior
• Supportive conversations and motivational work
• Documentation in the medical record system TakeCare according to current guidelines
• Handling of acute situations together with the rest of the team
• Collaboration with other employees
• Work based on different departments' routines, patients, and care orientations

Work in psychiatry is continuously developing, and NSP constantly strives for modern and innovative ways of working. Therefore, participation in the departments' quality and development work is a matter of course for our employees.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are trained as a nursing assistant, preferably with experience working in psychiatric inpatient care or other psychiatric operations. You are confident in your professional role and have the ability to quickly adapt to different care environments and working methods.

You have good teamwork skills and contribute to a professional and secure work climate for both patients and colleagues. Since the work involves serving on several different inpatient wards, we see that you are flexible, responsible, and have an easy time getting used to new routines and patient groups. Great importance is placed on personal suitability, maturity, and the ability to work independently based on the operation's needs.

Conditions

Intermittent employment. Start date by agreement.

About the recruitment

This is an ongoing recruitment of an intermittent nursing assistant to the operation's inpatient wards. Selection and contact with candidates occur continuously based on current staffing needs.

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The position will be filled provided it does not need to be taken for internal relocation, according to current regulations.

In patient-related work within the Stockholm County Council Healthcare Area:

- register control is applied before a decision on employment according to SLSO's overarching instructions for register control upon employment.

- employees who will have patient contact must undergo a new employment examination, according to current directives, which takes place through occupational health services before employment.

- in addition to Swedish professional licensure, good knowledge of the Swedish language corresponding to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is required. The same requirements are guiding for non-licensed personnel with patient contact.

Stockholm County Council Healthcare Area (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We offer health and medical care under the auspices of Region Stockholm within psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, near-acute care, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, as well as assistive devices. In collaboration with the Karolinska Institute, we conduct research, education, and development. Read more about SLSO here.

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