Psychiatric Clinic Strängnäs is Hiring a Care Assistant

About Us
The psychiatric clinic in Strängnäs is a specialist psychiatric outpatient clinic serving the population of Strängnäs Municipality. We are part of the psychiatric department at Mälarsjukhuset. The clinic is located approximately 10 minutes from Strängnäs travel center.

About 28 dedicated employees work at the clinic – care assistants, secretaries, doctors, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, and social workers. The clinic serves a broad target group; we treat ADHD, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD, psychosis, trauma, substance abuse, and eating disorders. The clinic is characterized by broad competence, a good work environment, flexibility, teamwork, and opportunities to actively participate in development work.

We offer:

• Secure employment and good career opportunities.
• Mentorship support and continuous supervision.
• Competence development and training.
• A generous wellness allowance and flexible working hours agreement.
• A work climate that promotes health and development.

Your Responsibilities
As a care assistant with us, you play a central role, working closely with patients and being an important part of the team. Your duties are qualified and varied, including among other things:

• Conduct independent, structured supportive conversations with patients with varying care needs, where the most severely mentally ill patients are highly represented.
• Receive new patients for intake conversations.
• Provide support to relatives and children in stressed families.
• Monitor patients' mental well-being, work with suicide prevention, and provide acute conversation interventions.
• Perform planned home visits with a colleague, participate in acute home visits together with a doctor for e.g., care certificate assessments.
• Perform sample collections such as pulse and blood pressure, as well as urine samples for driver's license matters and other frequently occurring urine tests within e.g., the addiction area.
• Conduct ADHD information conversations with patients prior to ADHD investigations.
• Administrative tasks related to the patient's care.
• Plan and act as group leader for group education for patients and relatives.
• Collaborate with e.g., social psychiatry/municipality and other care partners.

Your Qualifications
We are looking for you who:

• Are educated as a mental health care assistant/under-sister with a professional certificate from the National Board of Health and Welfare.
• Have extensive experience working in psychiatry, preferably both in inpatient and outpatient care.
• Are flexible, secure, structured, responsible, and enjoy working in a team.
• Have the ability to take personal responsibility, work independently, and assess when you need to ask for support.
• Have a professional attitude and feel confident conducting difficult conversations.
• Are curious, non-hierarchical, and see the value in different perspectives.
• Have a B driver's license.

We place great emphasis on personal qualities and offer you good opportunities to develop in your professional role.

Employment Type
Permanent position. Start date by agreement.

Information about the position is provided by
Head of Care Unit, Psychiatric Clinic Strängnäs Maria Planås, 076-696 20 04.
Union representatives can be reached via the contact center, 0155-24 50 00.

Come and work with us at the Psychiatric Clinic Strängnäs

Please send your application, including CV, by 2026-08-16.
Interviews may take place on an ongoing basis.

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

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