Healthcare Unit E, Höglandssjukhuset

Are you ready for an important assignment? We are now recruiting staff to the diabetic foot care clinic!

The Role of Foot Care Specialist

The diabetic foot care clinic is part of Medical Healthcare Unit E at the Department of Medicine and Geriatrics. As a foot care specialist, you provide foot care and wound care for diabetic patients. This also involves observing, assessing, prioritizing, documenting, and communicating changes in the patient's foot status.

You participate in team-based patient care, and through dialogue with patients and their relatives, you provide support and guidance to enable optimal participation in care and treatment. The team consists of a diabetes physician, diabetes nurse, dietitian, and chiropodist/podiatrist. As a chiropodist/podiatrist, you also often collaborate with orthopedic surgeons and orthopedic technicians.

This is an independent role where you have the opportunity to take significant responsibility, while working in a team with high competence across several professions.

Your Future Workplace

The Department of Medicine and Geriatrics at Höglandssjukhuset in Eksjö is a developing operation where we care for patients in need of specialized medical and geriatric care. The department has a history of innovative, systematic, and evidence-based quality work with a strong patient focus.

Since 2015, the department's management system has been certified according to ISO 9001:2008. We are all very proud that the department is ISO-certified! This simply means that we have order and structure in our operations. It creates good conditions for us working at the department to know what, when, and how we are expected to act. This contributes to quality-assuring our processes so that patients receive good and safe care.

Your Profile

You are trained as a nursing assistant (undersköterska) and have completed a three-semester specialist foot care education. It is also desirable that you have a few years of experience in the profession. You are calm and accommodating in your manner and collaborate well with other people. You should feel comfortable supervising students and speaking in front of groups.

We would appreciate it if you had good knowledge and experience regarding wounds and diabetes.

Our Offer to You

We offer you a developing and educational job as a foot care specialist within medical care. You are warmly welcomed to a great team with a pleasant atmosphere. Supporting and helping each other as colleagues is important to us.

As an employee in Region Jönköping County, you make a real difference for many. Regardless of profession, we all have the same mission – to contribute to making life better, more enjoyable, and healthier for all residents of the county. In a large organization, there are also great opportunities where we collaborate across boundaries and learn from each other. With us, competence development is not just training; it is part of the daily work.

To ensure you get the best possible start, you will naturally receive an adapted introduction based on your experience.

As an employee with us in Region Jönköping County, you have access to our employment benefits. Some of them increase your basic security, while others add a bit of gold to everyday life. Read more about our benefits here: Benefits, Region Jönköping County (http://www.rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Jobba-hos-oss/Formaner/).

Do you have questions about the position?

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the Head of Healthcare Unit, Laila Hilldén; [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Your experience is important to us. Therefore, we want to inform you that the recruitment process may take longer than usual during the summer. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

We are happy to receive calls from you who are interested in the job but decline calls from those selling advertising and recruitment services.

Our Recruitment Process

The last day for applications is May 31, 2026. We welcome your application.

Read more about Region Jönköping County's recruitment process on our website: Our Recruitment Process, Region Jönköping County (https://rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Lediga-jobb/Var-rekryteringsprocess/).