Counselor / Elder Coordinator – Samariterhemmet Health Centre

Our 1,800 employees work with primary care and health in Uppsala County. We offer a wide range of services within primary care. Our patients meet us at Region Uppsala's own health centres or within habilitation services, and we provide advice by phone via 1177. Education, research, and development are important to us, as we tailor our offerings to the needs of the residents. We already offer mobile teams, video visits, and smart e-services.

A unique opportunity to combine roles

You are warmly welcome to apply for the position of Counselor with us! We offer a permanent position at 40% where you will work as an Elder Coordinator. Additionally, there is an opportunity to temporarily increase the workload up to 100% as a Counselor at the health centre.

We focus on secure employment and offer good benefits through our collective agreement. In addition to your individual development plan, we offer regular training days for competence development, and you will become part of a large network of knowledgeable colleagues.

Your assignment

In the role of Elder Coordinator, you will work at our elderly clinic with the aim of creating security, continuity, and quality in care for the elderly with increased care needs. You will work together with two other Elder Coordinators and a multidisciplinary team. The work involves early identification of people over 75 years old at risk of significant care needs, preventive work through health talks, and coordinating care interventions both within the health centre and with other actors. The assignment also includes planning, following up, and developing interventions based on a structured patient process. There is a well-developed induction program for Elder Coordinators.

As one of our counselors is on leave, there is an opportunity to temporarily increase the workload to 100% by working as a Counselor at the health centre. The work as a Counselor involves meeting and treating people in crisis, individual psychosocial counseling, assessment, support talks, and treatment for adults over 18. There is scope for group activities. You will be part of a psychosocial team together with a counselor and two psychologists. You will contribute to developing operations and collaboration methods, both within and between health centres and with our care partners. Your consultation to colleagues at the health centre is an important part of the work, and multidisciplinary working methods are central to us.

Your qualifications

We are looking for you who are a licensed Health and Social Care Counselor with good experience in psychosocial work. We would also like you to have basic psychotherapy training (step 1) as well as knowledge of insurance and rehabilitation medicine.

As a person, you are good at planning, organizing, and prioritizing work effectively. The work requires you to be flexible in your approach and have strong initiative. The job assumes that you have good collaboration skills and enjoy working in a team, but also that you have the ability to work independently and lead yourself. You enjoy developing operational and collaboration methods, both within and between health centres and our care partners. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Our operations

Samariterhemmet Health Centre is located in central Uppsala, a stone's throw from the Travel Centre. Our health centre is a large operation with 14,000 registered patients. Together we are over 80 employees, and all professional areas within the health centre's mandate are represented. The broad variation of patients creates a developing workplace.

The health centre belongs to the Primary Care and Health administration in Region Uppsala. We want you to thrive and develop with us. Therefore, we offer you good development and career opportunities in an stimulating environment. Our health centres are located throughout the county. We work with the patient, in teams at the health centre, and collaborate with colleagues at different care levels – together for your health.

We offer

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

Want to know more?

For questions, contact Operations Manager Torun Hall via email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Do you want to work with us?

Welcome to submit your application via the link below. We will call for interviews during the application period, so do not hesitate to send in your application as soon as possible.

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 backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences.

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

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

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