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Are you a newly graduated or experienced occupational therapist who thrives in a varied role where you have the opportunity to broaden your skills? Then we may be looking for you at the Rehabilitation Unit.

Here at the Rehabilitation Unit, we are a cheerful group of mixed professions with a strong focus on health and health-promoting activities. Our Health Team is an active group that ensures we have activities planned in our health calendar. New fun activities every month and recurring challenges are on the agenda.

Job Responsibilities

As an occupational therapist with us at the Rehabilitation Unit, you will have a varied job as we work with both inpatient and outpatient care. We work with general medicine wards with 24-hour operations (heart and lung diseases as well as gastrointestinal and liver diseases, as well as kidney and blood diseases), an acute care unit, an acute stroke unit, and rehabilitation wards focusing on stroke, orthopedics, and geriatrics. The Rehabilitation Unit also has assignments towards various clinics, including dialysis and advanced home care (AH). We also conduct rehabilitation in the home environment in the form of an external stroke team as well as outpatient rehabilitation in teams for people with stroke and other acquired brain injuries.

Work as an occupational therapist at the Rehabilitation Unit includes, among other things, ADL assessments/training, assistive device testing, information and counseling, leading rehabilitation rounds, and handing over patients to the municipality and primary care. At the Rehabilitation Unit, we assess and analyze activity capacity based on evidence and proven experience and perform measures based on the individual's needs.

About the Workplace

Today, 9 occupational therapists work at the Rehabilitation Unit. Physiotherapists, counselors, speech therapists, dietitians, nursing assistants, and nurses also work with us. We often work in teams. You are welcome to a positive operation characterized by openness and participation. We are active in all wards of the hospital and also work on an outpatient basis. We offer inpatient rehabilitation within stroke and geriatrics and conduct individual and group treatment in different areas.

The clinic has a primary care emergency with an acute care unit and three care wards. Here you will also find a dialysis clinic, a medicine clinic with day medicine, advanced home care, and the rehabilitation unit.

Västmanland Hospital in Köping is very skilled at stroke care and is at the top in the national comparison. Köping Hospital has received awards from Riksstroke several times, both as the year's stroke unit and designation for good stroke care.

The hospital is located very close to the railway station, a three-minute walk away. Commuting possibilities to Köping are good. Train Örebro – Köping 33 min, Västerås – Köping 17 minutes, Eskilstuna – Köping 54 minutes.

It is important to us that you feel good and enjoy your job, therefore we offer you

• a tailored introduction program so that you feel safe and secure in your professional role
• opportunity for competence development through, for example, internal training
• a workplace for different stages of life
• free training at our fully equipped gym
• wellness allowance 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 welcome you who are a newly graduated or experienced licensed occupational therapist, preferably with previous experience in inpatient/outpatient care but not a requirement. If you have experience working in the medical record system Cosmic, we see it as meritorious. Driver's license B is desirable but not a requirement.

We are looking for you who are curious and sensitive to the patient's needs and you get the opportunity to take your own initiatives and decisions in the work. You communicate clearly and contribute new ideas in work-related issues. Since we are located in all wards of the hospital, you need to be flexible and enjoy variation. It is a plus if you easily adapt to new circumstances as we cover for each other and help each other when needed. There is an opportunity for you to develop and broaden your knowledge within the profession.

Terms of Employment

Permanent employment, full-time.

Start date upon agreement.

We apply individual and differentiated salary setting

Application

Welcome with your application by June 20, 2026

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

Read more about the region's recruitment process and how you design 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/)

Interviews may take place continuously, so don't wait to send in your application!

Protected Personal Data

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About the Region

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

We in Region Västmanland 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, in 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. We say no to you who sell all kinds of recruitment services