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Are you a specialist nurse in child and adolescent health and want to work with highly specialized pediatric orthopedic care? Here you will find a developing role where the child's best interests are at the center, alongside dedicated colleagues in a practice that combines clinical care, research, and development.

What we offer

• Individually tailored introduction for at least eight weeks
• Experienced and supportive colleagues in a dedicated team
• Daytime work on regular weekdays (no holidays)
• Education, supervision, and continuous competence development within pediatric orthopedics
• Opportunity for specialist education with maintained salary
• Opportunity to run your own clinics and work in interprofessional teams

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

About the position

At our clinic, you will meet children and adolescents with orthopedic diagnoses from all over the country. We provide highly specialized pediatric orthopedic care and receive patients via referral. The department has a national highly specialized care mandate (NHV) where research, innovation, and clinical activities are conducted in close collaboration.

As a specialist nurse, you play a central role in coordinating care around the patient. You work closely with children, adolescents, and their families, contributing to secure, person-centered, and cohesive care based on each individual's needs.

The work is varied and is carried out in close collaboration with doctors and other professions within pediatric orthopedics. You will have an independent area of responsibility while being part of a dedicated interprofessional team.

Examples of tasks:

• Your own nurse clinics
• Casting clinics
• PEVA clinics
• Clinics within limb lengthening and wound care
• Telephone advice via TeleQ and Always Open
• Administrative tasks such as bookings
• Joint consultations with doctors
• Joint consultations with other professions, including orthotists and occupational therapists

We are looking for you who

• Are independent and confident in your professional role and take responsibility for your work
• Are proactive and contribute to the development and improvement of the practice
• Have good cooperation skills and work well together with colleagues, patients, and relatives
• Are service-oriented and have a professional approach where the patient's needs are in focus

Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Licensed nurse with specialist education in child and adolescent health

Merits:

• Experience in pediatric care
• Experience in orthopedics
• Experience in casting techniques
• Experience in clinic work

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 the 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 adolescents, the person offered the position will be checked against the suspicion and burden register. You can read more about the recruitment process and the checks performed at Karolinska here.

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For permanent positions, a probationary period may be applied.

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 task is to train future healthcare professionals together with Karolinska Institutet and conduct world-leading research while continuing our work to develop care for the benefit of the patient. We work within a number of different areas and professions.

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

Our vision - We shall cure and alleviate tomorrow what no one can cure and alleviate today.

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