Vacant job

Hospitals in the West is an administration 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.

Description

The Care Coordination team consists of 6 people who work with internal and external parties regarding the IT service SAMSA, the admission and discharge process, and care coordination.

Organizationally, the team belongs to the Rehabilitation Unit, along with occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, counselors, dietitians, the stroke home rehabilitation team, the mobile palliative team, and the pain unit. The Rehabilitation Unit is part of the Business Area Geriatrics, Neurology, and Rehabilitation within Hospitals in the West.

Responsibilities

We are looking for you who want to work in our wonderful care coordination team and welcome you to a learning and developing position!

The team works towards the somatic care wards, the emergency department, and the ICU, working in various ways to enable a safe and secure admission and discharge process. As an employee in care coordination, you will be a knowledge support for the admission and discharge process towards the care wards, work extensively with and in the IT service SAMSA, and collaborate with contacts in regional and municipal primary care as well as social services.

The team often works out on the care wards in contact primarily with healthcare staff but also with patients and other internal units at the hospital. The team also works with management on directed assignments such as investigations and compilation of statistics related to the admission and discharge process, and has high participation in groups and questions concerning care coordination.

We work and communicate extensively via the IT service SAMSA, email, care meetings, and telephone. The team has many practical tasks such as booking planning meetings, coordinating hospital-wide care meeting equipment, training healthcare staff in the IT service SAMSA, and performing other tasks related to the admission and discharge process. Some tasks are recurring and predictable, while others can be unforeseen, on short notice, and change continuously based on the hospital's and operations' current needs.

We work with continuous development and improvement of the operations, where all our employees have an important role.

You will be employed in your core profession.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Adequate education for the assignment (core profession within healthcare or equivalent).
• At least a couple of years of experience in the profession from healthcare, municipal operations, or equivalent (e.g., social services).
• Experience handling the admission and discharge process and knowledge of guidelines and routines within the Region of Västra Götaland.
• Good knowledge of and understanding of HSL (Healthcare Act) and SoL (Social Services Act) and their significance in care and support work.
• Knowledge of the IT service SAMSA and at least one year of experience working in SAMSA.
• Documented experience of collaboration in complex care processes.
• Ability to analyze and solve problems in complex care processes.
• Good communication skills in speech and writing, as well as a professional approach.
• Attention to detail and ability to work in a patient-safe manner.

Merits:

• Knowledge of Excel.
• Experience in compiling statistics.
• Experience in operational development.

Great importance will be placed on your personal qualities such as good teamwork skills, initiative, and problem-solving ability. The team often has several balls in the air, so it is important that you have a consultative working style, the ability to be flexible, quickly change focus, and reprioritize tasks during the day. You should enjoy handling changed conditions, where new assignments and reprioritizations may arise on short notice.

About the Position

Daytime Monday - Friday.

Permanent position, start as soon as possible, according to agreement.

Conditions

Selection and interviews take place continuously during the application period.

We warmly 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 safe and equal healthcare as well as a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life.

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

As a permanent employee, you will be mobilized for war 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 every day and develop in their professions. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ (https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/)

Application

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