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Are you a nurse looking to work with acute interventions in psychiatry?

At the psychiatric emergency department in Karlstad, you will become part of an experienced and dedicated team working to provide secure and specialized care to patients in crisis. Here, you will have the opportunity to develop in a dynamic environment where collaboration, competence, and patient focus are at the center.

Your Workplace

Psychiatric inpatient care consists of a psychiatric emergency department, five care wards, a resource ward, and the Addiction Center, which is a residential home (HVB). The operations are located in specially adapted premises for the target group in the Psychiatric House at Karlstad Central Hospital. We have approximately 200 employees with various professional roles: doctors, nurses, care assistants, treatment assistants, treatment consultants, occupational therapists, social workers, business developers, and administrative staff. Together, we provide specialized psychiatric care and treatment.

The psychiatric emergency department is open 24/7 and receives patients in need of acute psychiatric care or assessment. The mission is to receive and assess patients with psychiatric illness and acute substance abuse issues.

At the psychiatric emergency department, you will work alongside nurse and care assistant colleagues with extensive experience in psychiatry. The majority of our nurses are specialist nurses in psychiatry. Here, you will find colleagues with great knowledge and competence who will support you as a new employee.

The position is a mixed shift role involving day, evening, and night shifts. If you wish to work permanent night shifts, there are opportunities for this as well.

Your Responsibilities

The tasks are numerous and varied. At the psychiatric emergency department, nurses, care assistants, and doctors work in teams. As a nurse, you work together with care assistants on triage of patients arriving at the psychiatric emergency department according to RETT-S. You perform acute nursing interventions and assessments, participate in doctor consultations, and provide support to others in the team and outside the organization in patient assessments. Examples of other operations we collaborate with include ambulance services, 1177 (healthcare advice), police, and social services. We are also involved in a new exciting project within the region where we are launching a psychiatric ambulance. Several of our nurses will rotate their positions to this new unit.

Within psychiatric inpatient care, we work across ward boundaries, helping each other when needed, which provides great opportunities for varied tasks and professional development within the organization.

Your Knowledge and Competencies

We are looking for you who are a licensed nurse and have good knowledge of the Swedish language. A specialist nurse degree in psychiatry and/or experience of psychiatric care or emergency healthcare is meritorious.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability, where good teamwork skills, flexibility, and clarity are important traits. We also look for the ability to lead, motivate, and coordinate groups. You communicate clearly and professionally in speech and work carefully and structured in your tasks.

We warmly welcome your application!

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Other Information

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In connection with possible employment, we may ask you as an applicant to provide an extract from the police criminal record. Prior to employment in psychiatric care, care for people with disabilities, care for children or young people, the employer conducts a check in the police's suspicion and criminal record register. A result in this register may affect your chances of employment.

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