Vacant job

At Region Dalarna, you will find meaningful work where you can make a difference. Together, we work towards a sustainable Dalarna with development potential in all parts of the county.

We are now looking for a Health and Social Care Counselor for the Emergency Department, Medicine, Geriatrics, and Rehabilitation – Avesta Hospital. Do you want to work closely with patients and make a difference in people's lives? Here, as a Health and Social Care Counselor, you play a vital role in a multidisciplinary team where a holistic approach, collaboration, and the patient's own resources are in focus.

The Paramedicine Unit, where the position is organized, collaborates with the entire Department of Emergency Medicine, Geriatrics, and Rehabilitation at Avesta Hospital. The department has a total of approximately 200 employees, and within the Paramedicine Unit, there are 18 staff members. The department includes both outpatient clinics and inpatient wards. As a counselor here, you will have a varied and developing assignment with both breadth and depth. Your main placement is within the outpatient team for geriatrics and rehabilitation, where you work together with occupational therapists, physiotherapists, doctors, nurses, and assistant nurses.

The team meets patients with neurological diseases and injuries, where you are responsible for the psychosocial assessment and treatment work in close collaboration with other professions.

At our department, you will be involved in several parts of the clinical operations, which provides a broad and stimulating assignment:

• Psychosocial investigation and treatment work in a team
• Support for patients and relatives
• Collaboration with external actors and networks around the patient
• Participation in the heart team within the medicine area
• Assessment and treatment of patients in the medicine clinic
• Interventions for inpatients, for example on the stroke ward

You work from a holistic view of the patient, where we together strengthen the patient's own resources and participation.

We offer you a varied and independent job with great opportunities to influence your own workday. You will collaborate with a team characterized by a good spirit of cooperation. There is an opportunity for you to participate in operational development, and we offer competence development based on your needs and experience.

You are expected to document your interventions in the medical record system Cosmic.

We are looking for you who:

• are a licensed Health and Social Care Counselor
• have a driver's license for a manual transmission car (home visits may occur in the work)
• have an interest in geriatrics, rehabilitation, and medicine
• have good ability to work both independently and in a team
• are flexible and structured
• have good knowledge of society's support measures for individuals and their networks
• thrive in a role where you contribute your specialist competence
• can lead groups and collaboration meetings

Meritorious:

• Experience in neurology, rehabilitation, or work in multidisciplinary teams

• If you have protected personal data, do not apply via the system, but contact the recruiting manager directly
• We take internal references from current and former employees at Region Dalarna
• On Applying for a job with us – Region Dalarna, you can read more about Region Dalarna as an employer, our values, working environment, benefits, and what checks are made prior to employment
• We have made our choice of media and decline contact from sales and recruitment agencies

Union contact details

Trade Union – Region Dalarna