Department of Psychiatry

We are Akademiska sjukhuset – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a county hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we offer healthcare to two million people in Central Sweden. Something is always happening here – a new life is born, a grandmother undergoes surgery, a colleague is hailed as a hero. Here, you will experience both tough trials and fantastic events, within a strong community with your colleagues. We welcome your application!

Our Operations

Psychiatry Ward 4A consists of eleven care beds and has several different treatment assignments with a focus on addiction and psychiatric comorbidity. Patients arrive at the ward via the adult psychiatry emergency department or are referred planned through the psychiatric outpatient clinics. On Psychiatry Ward 4A, nurses, care assistants, clinical pharmacists, doctors, and social workers work together. To ensure that patients receive good nursing care, we collaborate and consult with other psychiatric specialist competencies based on the patients' individual needs.

The department belongs to the Section of Addiction and Neuropsychiatry, a cutting-edge section. We work based on evidence-based methods and place great emphasis on healthcare development and research. All staff have access to supervision, and we actively work to improve the working environment for our staff. We have a goal-oriented improvement work regarding patient care and are keen on involving relatives. The staff on Psychiatry Ward 4A is open, positive, secure, and competent, making it easy to join as new staff.

Your Role

As a nurse in inpatient psychiatric care, you play an important role in the team working with the patient's recovery. In collaboration with colleagues from different professional categories, you assess and plan the individual patient's need for support, care, and treatment. You work closely with the patient and collaborate with psychiatric outpatient care, other healthcare providers/public authorities, as well as relatives. You are responsible, among other things, for documentation and medication administration. Supervising students and new employees is a natural part of your duties. It is important that you have a genuine interest in working with people with psychiatric problems and that you want to contribute to developing our operations.

Your Qualifications

You are a registered nurse, preferably with experience working in psychiatric care. Specialist nurse education and previous work experience in psychiatric care are meritorious but not required. Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, is a requirement.

You are also welcome to apply if you are not yet finished with your nursing education but will graduate in June 2026 and have an interest in psychiatry.

Your Competence

It is important that you have a genuine interest in working with people with psychiatric problems and that you want to contribute to developing our operations.

As a person, we would like you to be positive, driven, engaged, flexible, and solution-oriented with the ability to prioritize among varying tasks in a changing environment. You have an open-minded view of people and enjoy challenges. We also expect you to have a good service spirit towards both patients and employees and external actors. We will place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We Offer

We offer a permanent full-time position. Start date as soon as possible or according to agreement. You will receive a personally tailored introduction over 5 weeks. If you are an experienced nurse, you will be able to develop your leadership skills with us and take responsibility for the development of different areas based on your interests and the department's needs.

Probation may be applied. Before employment, extracts from the suspicion and criminal records will be obtained. You may be scheduled for day and evening shifts with work on some weekends. For those interested in working only nights, there is also an opportunity for this.

Interviews are conducted continuously, and the positions may be filled before the last application date.

With us, you will receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (Region Uppsala Benefits (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/)).

Want to know more?

Ward Manager: Adrian Pourakbar
070-611 53 68, [email protected]

Union Representative can be reached via the switchboard 018-611 00 00

Do you want to work with us?

Welcome to submit your application via the link below.

Read about employment terms and salary setting within Region Uppsala here: Become our new colleague (https://regionuppsala.se/jobb-och-utbildning/bli-var-nya-kollega/)

Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to the operations and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different birth backgrounds, functionalities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala mobilizes all permanent staff based on the total defense's needs. This means no obligations for the individual employee in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a decision on employment, a check of the suspicion and criminal records is conducted for all job seekers who, in the sought employment, may come to work within psychiatric healthcare, habilitation, care of children and youth, or compulsory care of addicts, areas covered by optional record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks at present are not intended to mainly contain work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is carried out entirely through Region Uppsala, and we decline phone calls from recruitment agencies and advertising sales.