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Region Västerbotten is looking for Nursing Assistants for Operation 3 in Umeå

Region Västerbotten works to ensure that good health and sustainable development strengthen each other. We take responsibility for equal welfare and for ensuring that research and innovation yield results.

The Clinic of Anesthesia, Surgery and Intensive Care provides emergency and planned surgical care, anesthesia, postoperative care, intensive care for children and adults, as well as sterile technical services at the regional and county level. This is done in close collaboration and in partnership with other clinics in the county. The clinic is also responsible for air-borne intensive care in the north, as well as conducting research, development, and education.

At Operation 3, we work with highly specialized cancer surgery and vascular surgery. This includes upper gastrointestinal surgery such as pancreatic, liver, and esophageal resections. Colorectal surgery, gynecology, urology, and endocrine surgery such as breast and thyroid operations. Advanced vascular surgery such as abdominal aorta and carotid surgery. Several operations from the mentioned specialties are performed using robot-assisted surgical techniques. We are also responsible for organ donation and multi-trauma care.

Operation 3 in Umeå is now looking for a Nursing Assistant. Every day, we work together in cross-professional teams and across departmental boundaries to save, improve, and extend lives. This is a challenging task that we undertake together. High well-being and a strong sense of team are crucial for both patients and our own health. Therefore, we actively work with the goal image we have created together:

Through our behavior, we create a workplace characterized by security, learning, respect, and a professional attitude.

To facilitate the balance between work and leisure, you have the opportunity here to join a working time model that allows for more time for recovery, and you are involved in the planning of work shifts. Our active work with values has resulted in a good climate, as seen in the employee surveys conducted. We are proud of our workplace and our mission.

The positions are fixed-term appointments of longer duration due to study leaves.

Do you want a challenging job that really makes a difference? Apply to us!

3 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

As a Nursing Assistant with us, you contribute knowledge and commitment that make people feel secure.

As a Nursing Assistant within Surgery, you have a key role in the operating room. The work involves close collaboration with nurse anesthetists, scrub nurses, anesthesiologists, and surgeons. The Nursing Assistant prepares the operating room before surgery and sets it up after the operation together with the rest of the surgical team. During the operation, the Nursing Assistant acts as the scrub nurse's right hand. The role also includes mentoring students, as Norrlands University Hospital is a teaching hospital. The work as a Nursing Assistant is a varied and educational profession where the work pace can vary from calm situations to more acute ones.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are trained as a Nursing Assistant with grades in emergency care, and preferably with a specialist course in surgery, anesthesia, and intensive care. Since "Nursing Assistant" is a protected title, you need to provide a certificate from the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), or alternatively, a certificate of employment that shows you are covered by the National Board of Health and Welfare's transitional provisions and can use the title until June 30, 2033.

Meritorious is experience working in surgery and other emergency care. You have a good basic technical understanding and see it as an exciting challenge to utilize our technical aids.

As a person, we see that you have good collaboration skills, are flexible in thought and action, and have the ability to make quick decisions. You have a drive to contribute to the development of the operations. We also see that you actively contribute to a good work environment and contribute to security, learning, respect, and a professional attitude.

Employment type: Fixed-term appointment.
Duration: 6 months or longer, start date: By agreement.
Working hours: Shift schedule.

Read more about our benefits for you who work with us on the website: https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner (https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner)

We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, so we welcome applicants with different backgrounds.

In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a stand on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media salespeople, recruitment sites, and similar.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply, contact the recruiting manager and then send your application documents by post.

In connection with employment, we will request an extract from the suspicion and criminal record register.

Please submit your application today; we are continuously working with selection and interviews.