Counselor at Rehabilitation Center, Ryhov County Hospital

Finally! A new opportunity to work as a counselor at our Rehabilitation Center in Jönköping has arrived. Are you empathetic, relationship-building, and driven to make a real difference? Do you want to work in an organization where you are encouraged to grow and take initiative? Then this might be the job for you!

The Role of Counselor

In this position, you will partially work with the Pediatric Clinic at Ryhov County Hospital. Here, there is a well-functioning and established collaboration where counseling competence is a natural and important part of the care planning for the child and family.

Work within children's and young people's health is varied and can cover several different areas, such as neonatal care, neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, oncology, chronic pain, and healthcare anxiety. You will meet children, young people, and their relatives at various stages and provide psychosocial support, advice, and guidance based on their needs.

Another part of the role consists of psychosocial work with adult patients within surgical care. Here, you meet individuals with various somatic conditions and may be involved throughout the entire disease trajectory, from onset and acute situations to follow-up later on. The work often takes place in close collaboration with other professions and activities that are significant for the patient's daily life, treatment, and well-being.

As a counselor, you are responsible for the psychosocial competence within the team and become a key partner both on wards and in clinics. A large part of the work involves crisis and support conversations, both in outpatient and inpatient care. The role also includes contact and collaboration with external actors, such as patient associations, social services, infectious disease control, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, and the Swedish Migration Agency.

We use digital solutions and offer digital patient meetings, an area we continue to develop. Therefore, we would appreciate it if you have an interest in digital working methods and treatment forms.

The position we offer is a permanent full-time employment, starting as agreed. Working hours are scheduled during daytime, Monday to Friday.

Your Future Workplace

Rehabilitation Center is a clinic that delivers specialized rehabilitation across the entire county. The operations are primarily centered at Ryhov County Hospital in Jönköping, Högland Hospital in Eksjö, and Värnamo Hospital, with the clinic having approximately 300 employees in total.

Your Profile

We are looking for you who have a degree in Social Work. We prefer that you are a licensed healthcare counselor. Previous experience in counseling, preferably within healthcare, is desirable.

To thrive with us, we see that you:

• are confident in your professional role
• find it easy to collaborate and communicate
• work in a structured manner and take responsibility for your tasks
• have good self-insight and a professional attitude
• wish to contribute to the development of the operations

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Our Offer to You

With us, you get good conditions to grow, both as a person and in your profession. To give you the best possible start, we offer an introduction adapted to your previous experience and needs. If you are new to the profession, there is also the possibility to receive support from an experienced mentor who helps you settle into the role in a secure way.

As a counselor at Rehabilitation Center, you will have a meaningful, developing, and varied assignment where you make a difference for patients and their relatives. The role is both exciting and challenging, and therefore we place great emphasis on community, collegial support, and knowledge exchange. You will become part of an engaged group of counselors within Rehabilitation Center where you support each other in daily work and drive joint development processes forward. There is also close and trusting collaboration with the management group, giving you the opportunity to influence and contribute to the development of the operations.

To strengthen you in your assignment, we offer regular supervision with an external supervisor.

As an employee with us within Jönköping County Council, 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 (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 Area Manager Adna Zahirovic at 010-242 32 17 or email [email protected] (on leave weeks 26-27) or Jenny Milton, whom you can reach by phone at 010-242 32 63 or email [email protected].

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 2026-07-05. Interviews are planned to be held during week 28. Our ambition is to conduct them on-site, as we see great value in the personal meeting. If necessary, there is an option to conduct the interview digitally.

Welcome with your application!

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