Vacant job

Hospital West is a division within the Region of Västra Götaland and consists of four hospitals – Alingsås Hospital, Angered Primary Care Hospital, Högsbo Primary Care Hospital, and Kungälv Hospital. Approximately 3,000 employees work with us every day to provide good, safe, and high-quality specialist healthcare.

Högsbo Primary Care Hospital offers an exciting workplace where you will have the opportunity to work using new methods and become an important part of innovative approaches to primary care. Högsbo is a so-called "smart hospital" where we combine innovative working methods with future-oriented IT support to enable high-quality care with the patient in focus. The hospital features a day surgery center and a specialist center with radiology and laboratory services for both adults and children. Högsbo Primary Care Hospital is a key part of the development of primary care in the Gothenburg area.

Do you want an independent and varied job where you make a difference for patients' health and their opportunities to return to work? We are now looking for a Health and Social Care Counselor who also wants to work with rehabilitation coordination at our rehabilitation clinic at Högsbo Primary Care Hospital.

About the position

As a Health and Social Care Counselor with us, you work with psychosocial support for patients within various medical fields. The role also includes duties as a rehabilitation coordinator, where you actively work to facilitate patients' return to work through coordination, planning, and support in the rehabilitation process.

The rehabilitation clinic collaborates with departments within the hospital, such as the heart and diabetes clinic, neurology clinic, gynecology clinic, and other specialist clinics. The work involves a lot of collaboration, but also offers great opportunities for independence and flexibility in your working day.

Your responsibilities

• Provide psychosocial support and treatment to patients and their relatives
• Assess and work with rehabilitation needs from a holistic perspective
• Rehabilitation coordination with a focus on supporting patients' return to work
• Collaborate with care teams, employers, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, and other actors
• Participate in the development of working methods and collaboration models
• Provide support to other departments in development projects, such as domestic violence

Qualifications

• Degree in Social Work
• Registered Health and Social Care Counselor
• Experience working as a counselor within healthcare
• Good ability to work independently and in a structured manner

Merits

• Experience working as a rehabilitation coordinator is an advantage

What we offer

• An independent, flexible, and meaningful job
• Opportunity to work broadly across several medical fields
• Involvement in the development of the operations

About you

You are confident in your professional role, have good collaboration skills, and are flexible in your working methods. You thrive when taking personal responsibility while also valuing teamwork. You are driven by contributing to patients' quality of life and their opportunities to return to work.

Other information

Selection and interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis.

We welcome your application!

About the Region of Västra Götaland

With us, you become part of a larger whole. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives every day throughout Västra Götaland.

You contribute to secure and equal healthcare as well as a sustainable society where the environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life.

We are in the midst of digital development where you get to help shape future working methods to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations.

As a permanent employee, you will be mobilized for wartime service as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that socially vital functions continue to operate even in a crisis.

Want to know more about us? On our website, you can read more about our benefits and meet employees who make a difference and develop in their professions every day. Read more at vgregion.se (https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/)

Application

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