Vacant job

Do you want to work as an Occupational Therapist with responsibility for the short-stay unit, in close collaboration with physiotherapist colleagues?

We offer a rewarding job with many personal meetings and varied working days! Here you will encounter various tasks and patient groups who have been granted short-term stays. From rehabilitation of patients with stroke to helping patients manage their daily lives independently and enabling suitable housing that provides independence in everyday life. We make a difference, every day! Karlshamn Municipality can offer you a developmental role as an Occupational Therapist in a well-functioning team. We have high engagement and a great sense of community in our work, all within a learning and supportive environment.

We want to be part of the transition required for good and close care, where demographics show increased care needs. We have recently reorganized our working methods and organization, with the aim of a sustainable work environment and long-term patient safety. Here, we are organized into functional assignments. In addition to the person responsible for short-term stays, we have a common care queue, a home transition team responsible for safe and secure discharge from the hospital, a telephone reception, and a rehab quality service.

The role includes:

• In close collaboration with the responsible physiotherapist and other professions in the team, work based on set goals for short-term stays, e.g., with nurses, unit manager, care staff, dementia nurses, and assistance coordinators.
• Municipal rehabilitation; assessments, prescriptions, and fittings based on the prescription process. The patient has a significant degree of participation in the goals of our interventions.
• Lead based on your profession, both in patient contact and through the care staff you lead, providing support and motivation through your knowledge.
• Responsibility to work together with other professions to create conditions for a safe return to permanent housing from the short-stay unit.
• Collaborate externally and internally with various professions to maintain high quality.

Requirements for the position:

• Licensed Occupational Therapist
• Category B driver's license for manual transmission

Merits for the position:

• Experience within the profession or from municipal rehabilitation
• Knowledge of municipal operations and politically directed organization

Personal qualities:

As a person, you are driven, sensitive, goal-oriented, and thrive with significant responsibility. You are comfortable working independently and simultaneously recognize the importance of good collaboration with a patient focus. The work requires the ability to collaborate, organize, structure, and work solution-oriented with a holistic perspective. You have good pedagogical skills in meetings with other people and in teaching, and you see the value of good teamwork between professions. Within the framework of employment, you contribute to our development and improvement work. Great importance is attached to personal suitability.

Information about the position:

• 1 position, permanent full-time
• Flexible hours with daytime working hours
• Start date as soon as possible after agreement
• Application deadline 2026-07-05

Other:

• According to law (2026:43) on register control when working in the home for elderly persons or adults with disabilities, the person offered this employment must provide an extract from the criminal record register. You order your criminal record extract on the police website; the extract you should request is the one applicable for work with elderly persons or adults with disabilities.
• As an employer, we need to verify the right to work in Sweden, therefore you need to show an ID document proving citizenship during a potential interview: a passport or national ID card are examples of such documents.
• We offer a staff club, health pause, and competence development within the professional field.

For more information about the position, contact:

Unit Manager Katarina Nilsson, 0454 - 810 70, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Swedish Association of Occupational Therapists Ulrica Lindgren, 0454 - 56 39 00, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

The Physiotherapists Maria Thomasson, 0454 – 56 39 00, [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Visit https://www.karlshamn.se/rekrytering (https://www.karlshamn.se/rekrytering). There you will find important information regarding, among other things, what applies to you if you have protected personal data, how we verify the right to work in Sweden, when and how you need to order an extract from the criminal record register, as well as war placement upon employment.

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