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Are you an experienced physiotherapist who is confident in your role and enjoys working independently while being part of a highly competent and multidisciplinary team? Then you are welcome to apply for the position of Physiotherapist in the LSS Team in Södertälje Municipality! One of our physiotherapists is moving on to new challenges, and we are now looking for a new colleague.

Your Responsibilities

The LSS Team consists of 6 nurses, 3 occupational therapists, and 2 physiotherapists. Together, we provide the best possible healthcare for our patients residing in special support housing (LSS), psychiatric residential facilities, and day activities. We are responsible for over 600 patients, and our coverage area spans the entire municipality from Ytterenhörna to Vårdinge. We operate from a shared office in Södertälje and travel to our various residential units using vehicles from our company fleet. As a physiotherapist in the LSS Team, you will have patient responsibility for approximately 140 residential patients as well as a number of patients in day activities. The work involves assessments, fitting and prescribing assistive devices, follow-up of prescriptions, rehabilitative and function-preserving interventions, and risk assessments within an interprofessional team for patients with varying disabilities and sometimes very complex care needs. The role involves extensive contact with other healthcare providers and places high demands on your ability to collaborate and cooperate across organizational boundaries and with other professions. You will work daytime hours, Monday–Friday.

Who are you?

You are a licensed physiotherapist or licensed physical therapist with at least 2 years of professional experience.

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of professional experience.
• Valid B-class driver's license.
• Fluent Swedish in both speech and writing.

Merits:

• Experience from LSS, home healthcare, elderly care, or psychiatry.
• Knowledge of low-affective interaction methods.
• Knowledge of alternative communication methods (AKK).
• Knowledge of dementia diseases.

Personal qualities:

• You have a strong work ethic.
• You find it easy to collaborate in a team.
• You are curious and have a desire to learn new things.
• You are driven and effective, with a good ability to structure and organize your work both independently and within a team.
• You thrive in an organization that is constantly developing and are open to trying new working methods if required to achieve high patient safety and better flows in various processes.

We offer you

The LSS Team is part of the Health and Medical Care Unit in Södertälje Municipality. For a couple of years, we have been working towards the vision "One HS," which means closer and more efficient collaboration across unit boundaries. The management group works to ensure that employees collaborate well across units, share experiences, and support each other. We are a development-driven organization with engaged, forward-looking, and present leadership. We work with close leadership, which among other things means that each unit manager has a smaller number of employees in their teams.

We offer you a workplace with high competence in a multidisciplinary team. You will gain broad experience in meeting patients with a wide spectrum of diagnoses within somatic care, psychiatry, and neuropsychiatry.

As an employee of Södertälje Municipality, you are offered a secure employment, good terms of employment and working environment, competence development, and several benefits. Please read more about us on our website and for more information about our benefits: https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/ (https://www.sodertalje.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss/formaner/)

We look forward to hearing from you!

Other Information

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

Södertälje Municipality works with competence-based recruitment methodology to counteract discrimination and promote diversity in the workplace.

We have many positions where we conduct register checks. Therefore, a certificate of good conduct (criminal record and suspicion register) from the Swedish Police Authority may need to be presented by the candidate before a decision on employment is made.

A position with us may involve placement in a security class. A security clearance with register check according to the Security Protection Act (2018:585) may therefore be conducted before a decision on employment is made. For some of our security-class tasks, Swedish citizenship is required.