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Get the chance to utilize your full range of skills as a nurse with us! From advanced pain treatment to basic care and promoting well-being - we cover it all. Take the opportunity and apply for a job with us now!

What We Offer

• An stimulating, challenging, and highly educational role as a nurse
• The opportunity to work with highly specialized and advanced postoperative care
• A personalized introduction program adapted to the department and based on your previous experience
• A retention bonus, meaning 40 extra hours in your time bank that can be taken as leave, paid out as salary, or allocated to pension savings
• Continuous professional development; it is part of our work to constantly develop together through lectures and workshops
• Join a team where we value you as an individual and believe in an inclusive work environment where we help each other to develop
• A workplace where we work focused with participatory and present leadership, seeing the individual and ensuring you have the best conditions for your continued development

Naturally, you will also benefit from the perks offered by Karolinska University Hospital.

About the Position

Here, we care for adult patients from across the hospital who require highly specialized and advanced postoperative care and monitoring. Patients come to us after surgery, intervention, or treatment combined with some form of anesthesia (general anesthesia/sedation/local anesthesia).

The ward is open 24/7, seven days a week. Our patients need our level of care for a few hours up to several days. This means that both tasks and work pace are very varied, which will give you in-depth and broad competence. Here, you will work together with other nurses, assistant nurses, doctors, and physiotherapists.

The position contributes to our 24/7 operations by working 2 weekend shifts per month.

We Are Looking For Someone Who

• Has the ability to empathize with another person's perspective or situation without taking on their feelings
• Takes responsibility for your tasks and organizes your workday independently
• Adapts easily to changing circumstances, can quickly change approach, and sees opportunities in change
• Brings ideas and new approaches to work-related issues and has innovative thinking that can be put into practice
• Works well with other people and relates to them in a listening and flexible manner

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Swedish nursing license
• At least three years of experience in emergency care with a surgical focus or alternatively intermediate care

Merits:

• Specialist education in anesthesia/intensive care, emergency care, or surgery

About the Recruitment Process

Please note that your application is not complete until you have attached your professional license and educational certificates. Selection and interviews are conducted continuously, so do not hesitate to submit your application today!

Along with your application, you need to attach a CV. Instead of a cover letter, we ask you to answer selection questions and briefly explain why you are suitable for the role. Answering the questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

We warmly welcome your application – Together we are Karolinska!

In connection with the appointment of positions involving care for children and young people, the person offered the position will be checked against the suspicion and background register. You can read more about the recruitment process and the checks performed at Karolinska here.

As an employee at Karolinska University Hospital, you may be mobilized for war service. Read more about what this entails here.

If you are or have previously been employed by Region Stockholm, we will take internal references from your current or former manager if you become a candidate for employment.

For permanent positions, a probationary period may be applied.

About Karolinska University Hospital

We at Karolinska University Hospital are proud to be one of the world's leading university hospitals. In addition to our special responsibility for highly specialized care in the Stockholm region, our main task is to train tomorrow's healthcare professionals and conduct world-leading research together with Karolinska Institutet, while continuing our work to develop care for the benefit of the patient. We work within a number of different areas and professions.

You can read more about our mission in care, research, and education here.

Our vision - We shall cure and alleviate tomorrow what no one can cure and alleviate today.

Please read more about us on karolinska.se and follow us on social media!

Department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care

The Department of Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care is the hospital's consolidated resource for anesthesia, surgery, pre- and postoperative care, as well as intensive care for adults. We are also responsible for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO), highly specialized pain care, and the sterile technology units. You can read more about us here.

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