Vacant job

Skaraborg Hospital – where commitment, care, and competence meet.

With over 4,000 employees across approximately thirty specialist areas, we work together to provide cutting-edge trauma and specialist care. Our operations cover the entire Skaraborg region, and we make a difference for our residents every day.

Here, you will meet colleagues who support each other in an environment that offers room for development and responsibility. Become part of our team and contribute with us.

Read more at http://www.vgregion.se/skas (http://www.vgregion.se/skas)

Do you want a job that is varied, challenging, and incredibly meaningful?

Then you will feel right at home with us on the Palliative Care Unit.

We are looking for a nurse with great empathy, attention to detail, and a heart in the right place.

About the job

On the palliative care unit, we care for patients in the final stages of life and work closely with their relatives. Today, we have 8 care beds, all in single rooms, with good opportunities for relatives to stay overnight if desired. We are a team of nurses, nursing assistants, and doctors. We collaborate closely with physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, and social workers. We also have a Palliative Care Team that maintains contact with patients in their homes.

For us, it is important to work with development and continuous improvements to offer the best possible care for our patients, as well as an stimulating working environment for our employees.

We offer

We who work on the Palliative Care Unit love our job! It can sometimes be mentally and physically demanding, but always meaningful, rewarding, and full of joy. Most of those who start working with us stay for a long time. We have a very nice sense of community.

For us, the balance between work and leisure is important. We want everyone to manage their life puzzle and create the best possible conditions for a sustainable working life. At the same time, you are offered the opportunity to use scheduled working time for competence development according to your own interest and wishes.

All new employees receive a well-planned introduction and mentoring.

We are looking for

We are looking for you who are a kind-hearted, skilled, and considerate nurse who enjoys working in a learning and inspiring environment together with highly competent colleagues. Well-being and camaraderie with colleagues are key to having healthy and harmonious employees. This also leads to even better and safer care for the patients.

We want you who work with us on the palliative care unit to feel that you make a difference every day.

A recognized nursing degree is a requirement for the position, and if you have a few years of work experience, it is an advantage. Great importance will also be placed on personal suitability.

Selection and interviews will take place continuously during the application period.

If you are a newly graduated nurse, you will participate in the Clinical Foundation Year, which is our introduction program. The Clinical Foundation Year is mandatory and lasts during the first year of your employment with us. The Clinical Foundation Year includes introduction days, supervision and education days, as well as observation days. The purpose of the Clinical Foundation Year is to create good conditions for newly graduated nurses to strengthen their theoretical knowledge and practice skills, as well as to grow into their new profession.

About the Region of Västra Götaland

Here, you become part of a larger whole. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives every day throughout Västra Götaland.

You contribute to safe and equitable care as well as a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life.

We are in the midst of digital development where you get to help shape future ways of working to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations.

As a permanent employee, you will be assigned to war-time duties as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that socially vital functions continue to operate even in a crisis.

Want to know more about us? On our website, you can read more about our benefits and meet employees who make a difference and develop in their professions every day. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ (https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/)

Application

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