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Rättvik – where tradition meets the future!

Here you will find the most attractive living environments with high quality of life, security, and services for our residents and visitors; largely thanks to our solid sustainability work.

The Social Services Department is responsible for care for the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as support, counseling, and other interventions for children, young people, and adults.

We work based on the Social Services Department's vision.

The Mission: To provide the people of Rättvik at all stages of life with the right support, at the right time, and in the right way by creating a more preventive, accessible, and knowledge-based social services.

The Purpose: To create the best possible conditions for the people of Rättvik to be able to take responsibility for living an independent life and having good health throughout their lives.

Description

Municipal Rehab is organized within the Social Services Department in Rättvik Municipality. The unit also includes a activity that supports patients recently discharged from the hospital according to the SUS law. This unit also includes housing coordination, a dietician, and a short-term care ward.

The unit's main task is to contribute to the municipality's goal of making residents as independent and active as possible by motivating and supporting patients to maintain and develop their active abilities. The target group includes young adults, adults, and the elderly in ordinary housing, SÄBO (supported housing), and group homes within the LSS (Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments).

The work is characterized by commitment, innovation, development, and customer focus.

Currently, rehab consists of 4 occupational therapists and 5 physiotherapists. As one of our physiotherapists has chosen to further educate themselves to meet the rising age curve, we are now looking for a replacement with a start date as agreed.

With us, you will join a pleasant workplace with close collaboration between professions, open communication, lack of hierarchy, and good collegial support where we share knowledge and help each other when workloads shift.

We value a good work environment and well-being in the work group, which is why great importance is placed on personal suitability when hiring.

Rättvik Municipality as an employer invests in secure employment with a good work environment and benefits such as holiday exchange, travel cards, subsidized bicycles, and more. You will be part of a network with knowledgeable colleagues.

Job Description

As a physiotherapist, you will be responsible for assessment, rehabilitation, prescriptions, delegation to care staff, and prescription of assistive devices. We value interdisciplinary teamwork so that our patients feel secure and involved in their daily lives, as well as creating opportunities for them to continue living at home.

In Rättvik Municipality, we work with "Safe Home Return" after hospital stays, which means rapid and more intensive interventions together with a assistant nurse linked to Rehab and home care in connection with the patient's return home from the hospital.

Your main tasks as a physiotherapist include performing transfer assessments and assessing physical prerequisites for training. You design individual training programs and instruct/train care staff in daily rehabilitation and transfers. Prescription of assistive devices is included in the role, as well as participating in the municipality's work in fall prevention, preventive, and developmental work. We document in Lifecare HSL.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a licensed physiotherapist. It is meritorious if you have good knowledge of regional and municipal healthcare, as well as previous experience in multiprofessional teamwork. We would like you to have an interest in monitoring the external environment and development within the care and social services sector.

Since communication and documentation are part of the tasks, we want you to have digital competence and master the Swedish language in speech and writing. As the work involves home visits throughout our vast municipality, you must have a driver's license for a passenger car.

As a person, you have good cooperation skills; you can motivate and inspire your surroundings with your rehabilitative/habilitative mindset. You enjoy working both independently and in teams. To thrive with us, we also believe you can prioritize and plan but simultaneously have the ability to quickly adapt to the needs of the business for the day.

Other

In this recruitment, we offer relocation services in cooperation with Rekryteringslots Dalarna and housing priority in cooperation with RFAB.

Selection and interviews may take place on a rolling basis.

About the Employer:

If you are interested in working with us, you can get an idea of what you can expect in terms of salary on our website if you apply for a job with us. Welcome to read more via this link: Salary Structure in Rättvik Municipality (#)

In Rättvik Municipality, we create conditions for developing workplaces with secure leaders and employees.

We value each other's work environment and want all employees to thrive and develop with us.

For us, it is important that everyone goes to work with a positive feeling and feels joy in their work.

We create quality of life and make a difference for people every day; we have Sweden's Most Important Job!