Psychiatric Clinic, Nyköping Hospital

Are you a nurse assistant with an interest in psychiatry and the discharge process? We are looking for you who want to work both patient-facing and as part of the role of discharge coordinator. Do you want to feel both involved and responsible at work? Then you might be our new colleague! We offer you a secure employment with good career opportunities. We have a positive view of competence development. We see supervision as a natural part of the work.

About Us

On the unit, doctors, nurses, and nurse assistants work together. We work cross-professionally in teams with contact person assignments and have a staff composition that reflects society in terms of cultural background, age, and gender. We work with patients with affective disorders, eating disorder issues, self-harm behavior, and psychotic illnesses.

Your Responsibilities

• You will be one of two discharge coordinators on the ward, responsible for the discharge process, ensuring contact with collaboration partners, LINK, and participating in SIP (Swedish Interagency Public Protection).
• You should enjoy working with people, be flexible, and have good collaboration skills and a high sense of responsibility.
• You should be able to provide good somatic and psychiatric care, including supportive and motivational conversations, helping the patient with structure and maintaining good personal hygiene. You should be able to initiate and participate in network and care planning meetings. As a contact person, you are responsible for managing the documentation of the patient's care.
• Be involved in development and change work on the ward. We continuously work with occupational health and safety issues and follow the Region's common value base for personnel matters.

Your Competence

• Nurse assistant with professional certification.
• Meritorious with approved education as a nurse assistant in psychiatry 2 (200 credits) and community-based psychiatry (100 credits) or forensic psychiatry (100 credits).
• Meritorious if you have experience working with LINK.

Great importance is placed on personal qualities such as personal maturity, good oral and written communication, stability, initiative-taking, and good collaboration skills.

Employment Type

Permanent employment or as agreed. Start date as agreed.

Information about the position is provided by

Head of Nursing Unit Monika Tsoma, 073-868 29 85
Deputy Head of Nursing Unit Patrik Höglund, 076-697 85 37
Union representatives can be reached via the contact center, 0155-24 50 00.

Come and work with us on the General Psychiatric Ward!

We welcome your application, including CV, by 2026-08-15. Interviews may take place on a rolling basis.

The position will be filled provided it does not need to be taken by existing staff or if the conditions for recruitment change.

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