Department of Health and Medical Care

The Executive Office of Uppsala County Council is part of Uppsala County Council, one of the largest employers in Uppsala County. The Executive Office is led by the County Director and consists of approximately one thousand employees. With a governing, supportive, and coordinating role, the Executive Office is tasked with supporting the political leadership and administrations to ensure that political guidelines are implemented across the council's various operations. In this way, Uppsala County Council can fulfill its role, both regionally and nationally.

Do you want to develop and contribute to the growth of Uppsala County Council? We welcome you to work with us!

Our Operations

One of our employees is moving to Gothenburg, and we are looking for a new Infection Prevention and Control Nurse (Hygiene Nurse) to join our team. Don't miss the chance to apply for one of the best jobs in the world. A varied role where we serve the entire county.

We operate within Akademiska Sjukhuset, the Hospital in Enköping, Primary Care and Health, private health centers, eight municipalities, public dental care, private healthcare providers, and the university.

All care and support services must be provided with high hygienic standards to ensure patients and service users receive good and safe care. Within Uppsala County Council, our team currently consists of two infection control physicians, eight infection prevention and control nurses, and one administrator. Our task is to carry out infection prevention within all health care, social care, and regional dental care throughout Uppsala County. We are part of the Executive Office, Department of Health and Medical Care at Uppsala County Council, and our workplace is located at Hubben.

Your Role

Infection prevention and control work is a long-term, preventive, and systematic hygiene effort aimed at preventing healthcare-associated infections. The work is independent, outward-facing, stimulating, and varied. Your function is advisory, which involves collaborating with all staff categories within healthcare and social care, managers at various levels, and Medical Responsible Nurses (MAS) in the county's municipalities.

A significant part of the work includes, among other things:

Training and education
Monitoring the occurrence of healthcare-associated infections
Mapping and investigating infection outbreaks and disease transmission
Providing healthcare providers with advice, support, and proposing appropriate measures
Conducting quality reviews in collaboration with healthcare/social care
Environmental scanning
Developing infection prevention efforts

Your Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a licensed nurse with clinical experience. Merits include experience in teaching, experience in change and development work, pedagogical knowledge, leadership, and the ability to independently plan and execute projects. The role involves many contacts outside the workplace, which requires a talent for creating and maintaining good relationships. You should have good verbal and written communication skills, computer proficiency, and be flexible. A driver's license is required. As we are a small work group, great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and previous experience.

What We Offer

Full-time, permanent position, daytime hours. Interviews and appointments take place continuously during the application period, so please submit your application as soon as possible. A probationary period of up to 6 months may apply. Start date by agreement.

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

Want to know more?

Unit Manager and Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Ingrid Isaksson, phone 018/6113906

Union Representatives:

Vision – Christianne Simson, 018-611 32 51
SACO – Örjan Olsmats, 018-611 00 00 (switchboard)

Other unions can be reached via Uppsala County Council's switchboard at 018-611 00 00.

Do you want to work with us?

We welcome your application via the link below.

Read about employment terms and salary setting at Uppsala County Council here: Become our new colleague (https://regionuppsala.se/jobb-och-utbildning/bli-var-nya-kollega/)

Uppsala County Council 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.

Uppsala County Council assigns 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 making a hiring decision, checks of suspicion and criminal records are conducted for all applicants who, in the sought position, may work within psychiatric care, habilitation, care for children and youth, or involuntary care of substance abusers, areas covered by optional record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work close to patients, even if the tasks currently are not intended to primarily involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is conducted entirely through Uppsala County Council, and we decline phone calls from recruitment agencies and advertising sales representatives.