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Technician for Refurbishment of Assistive Devices – Southern Stockholm County

The Assistive Device Services are responsible for operating assistive device services for people with mobility impairments in the southern part of Stockholm County, as well as county-wide responsibility for individuals needing consumable assistive devices at home, medical technology equipment, and communication, cognitive, visual, and hearing aids.

Hjälpmedel Stockholm supplies the southern part of the county with technical assistive devices. We make a difference every day for everyone with a functional variation, enabling an active and independent life through our efforts.

At the Technical Service unit, we work with the maintenance of technical assistive devices for people with disabilities. We are now expanding our unit that works with refurbishment and are looking for you with a technical interest and a passion for sustainability and reuse.

You will become one of seven technicians working with the refurbishment of returned assistive devices, meaning restoring returned devices so they can be issued again to new patients.

The assistive devices you will primarily work with initially are electric wheelchairs and electric drive units for manual wheelchairs.

If you want a small insight into what a refurbishment technician does, check out this link: (Magazine Function in Focus, No. 2 2021) Read more here (http://dok.slso.sll.se/Habilitering/funktion-i-fokus/fif-2021-2-webb.pdf#page=32).

Main responsibilities include:

• Washing and refurbishment
• Restoration, repair, and disposal
• Preventive maintenance and modification/upgrading during refurbishment, where applicable
• Planning and preparation of internal refurbishment
• Providing technical expertise from a refurbishment perspective in various cross-functional groups within the operation

Desired qualifications

• At least a 2-year upper secondary education with a technical focus
• Experience working with technology, for example, service, automotive electricity, mechanics, or in equivalent areas that we assess as comparable
• You are as comfortable with the computer in your work as you are with your tools
• Knowledge of the Office package is required as we work in Word and Excel
• Swedish C1 level and knowledge of English, as many manuals are in English
• Category B driver's license is a requirement

Personal qualities

As a person, you are calm and stable, and you can focus on the right things. You are self-reliant and can structure and prioritize your tasks.

You see technical problems and improvements as a fun and exciting challenge.

In your work, you are meticulous and have good organizational skills.

You are engaged, have a high work capacity, and are not afraid to try new tasks.

You are outgoing, flexible, and like us, have a positive basic attitude and an unpretentious approach.

Creativity, efficiency, engagement, and teamwork are highly valued by us. You are a team player who contributes to good cooperation, and with us, the team always comes before the individual.

The position involves daily work tasks that can be physically demanding, so it is a prerequisite that you have good physical fitness.

The position will be filled subject to it not needing to be taken for internal reassignment, according to current regulations.

In patient-facing work within the Stockholm County Council (SLSO):

• Register control is applied before a decision on employment according to SLSO's overarching guidelines for register control at employment.
• Employees who will have patient contact must undergo a new employment examination, according to current directives, which takes place through occupational health services before employment.
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language at level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is required, in addition to Swedish professional licensure. The same requirement is guiding for non-licensed staff with patient contact.

Stockholm County Council (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We offer healthcare under the auspices of Region Stockholm within psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, near-acute care, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, and assistive devices. In collaboration with the Karolinska Institute, we conduct research, education, and development. Read more about SLSO here.

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