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Do you have a genuine interest in psychiatric nursing and are looking for new exciting challenges? Are you looking for a workplace with a good atmosphere and positive culture? Then we might be looking for you! We now have the opportunity to welcome a nurse to our psychiatric emergency department in Lund.

We offer a pleasant and exciting workplace with good opportunities for competence development. The psychiatric emergency department in Lund consists of just over 30 employees, where everyone collaborates to provide the best interaction and care quality for our patients. The emergency department is open 24/7 and is responsible for acute psychiatric assessments as well as telephone advice to patients, relatives, care partners, and authorities. Our catchment area consists of the inhabitants of central Scania.

Does this spark your interest and do you want to know more? Contact us for more information and the opportunity to observe!

1 position(s).

RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for a new nurse for our department!

In the role of a nurse, the main responsibilities are to make assessments and decide on the patient's care needs. As support in decisions, you have the RETTS triage system and the triage manual, as well as the opportunity to consult other nurses and doctors. The tasks also include telephone advice, psychiatric and somatic care, as well as acute medical interventions. You also have close cooperation with care partners and authorities such as the police, prison and probation service, and social services.

The tasks are often varied and exciting as you meet the full range of mental illness in different phases in a unique way. You become an expert in interaction and are given time for each patient. There is also the opportunity to take on different areas of responsibility and have assignments such as fire and safety representative, environmental representative, influence representative, ethics representative, or child representative.

In addition to a pleasant and exciting workplace, we offer you an introduction and on-the-job training adapted to your knowledge and previous experience. We assume that everyone has an individual learning process and consider it a given that you should receive support from colleagues to become confident in your new work role. Internal training is held continuously to raise the level of competence and streamline care work.

Work is performed during the day, evening, and weekends. We are open to having a dialogue regarding working hours and schedules based on preferences, provided it fits the operations.

QUALIFICATIONS

We welcome you who are a registered nurse with the right to practice in Swedish healthcare. Language skills in Swedish corresponding to at least level C1 according to the Council of Europe's scale are required. If you in addition to this are a specialist nurse in psychiatry and/or have experience working with patients with mental illness within psychiatry, this is considered meritorious. We also welcome you who are new to the profession and have an interest in psychiatric care.

Regarding personal qualities, we would like you to be flexible, engaged, driven, and have a positive approach to improvement and development work. You are secure, stress-resistant, structured, and meticulous in your work, and have an empathetic interaction towards our patients. The work requires the ability to switch from a fast pace to a more calm rhythm and vice versa. We believe that you see collaboration as a prerequisite for doing a good job and contributes to the good and positive atmosphere in the work group. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

As part of a suitability check, before a decision to offer employment, a check in the suspicion and criminal record register may be made. Read more here about when a check may become relevant: https://www.skane.se/jobb-och-utbildning/jobba-hos-oss/att-jobba-i-region-skane/villkor-och-formaner/#418025 (https://www.skane.se/jobb-och-utbildning/jobba-hos-oss/att-jobba-i-region-skane/villkor-och-formaner/#418025)

In this recruitment, we apply rolling selection. You are warmly welcome to submit your application today, we look forward to getting to know you!

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Start: Start according to agreement.

Region Skåne exists so that everyone who lives in Scania feels well and has confidence in the future. Through borderless cooperation and care, the best conditions are created for a healthy life within business, public transport, culture, and healthcare in Scania. Together we make life more possible.

Psychiatry, habilitation, and assistive devices is the second largest administration with operations throughout Scania. We have a broad mandate where many different competencies together give our patients the best care and support. With curiosity and great interest, we also invest in development and research.

The mission within psychiatry is to provide specialized care in publicly run child, adult, and forensic psychiatry. Habilitation provides habilitation and rehabilitation within publicly run child, youth, and adult habilitation. Assistive devices have the mission to handle assistive devices prescribed to patients in Scania. Within the administration, there is also vision, hearing, and deaf operations and youth clinics in Scania.

At https://www.skane.se/ledigajobb (https://www.skane.se/ledigajobb) you can see in which stage Region Skåne's recruitments are and how many have applied for the positions.

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