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About Us

Forensic Psychiatry is a unique operation within Sahlgrenska University Hospital, located in Gunnilse, approximately 20 minutes from central Gothenburg by public transport. Our mission is to provide individually adapted psychiatric care and rehabilitation to patients who have been referred to forensic psychiatric care. The operation provides both outpatient and inpatient care in premises with enhanced security classification and also treats patients under other legislation who need acute psychiatric specialist care. Our goal is for patients to be able to live a life in society without relapsing into crime related to mental illness.

We invest in research through our research unit CELAM (Center for Ethics, Law and Mental Health), located at Rågården. The position is placed in one of our rehab units where care periods are often long, creating good opportunities for rehabilitative interventions and close familiarity with the patients.

About the Job

We are looking for an engaged day nurse for one of our inpatient units within forensic psychiatry. You will always work together with a nursing colleague and become an important part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of doctors, social workers, care assistants, and treatment assistants.

In this role, you are responsible for patient care and medical follow-up through medication management, sampling, and clinical assessments. You also conduct clinical assessments of patients' psychiatric health status and actively participate in care planning and follow-ups. As a nurse, you have a central function as the responsible nurse and team leader, contributing to ensuring safe, secure, and person-centered care. Here you have the opportunity to develop in an operation where collaboration, quality, and patient safety permeate daily work.

The position starts as a project employment for at least nine months with good opportunities for permanent employment. Working hours are during the day Monday–Friday, with weekends and public holidays off, and cover full-time (40 hours per week). This is an excellent opportunity for you who seek long-term stability and want to develop within forensic psychiatric care in an operation with high engagement and strong team spirit.

About You

We are looking for you who are a registered nurse. Experience of psychiatric care is meritorious, as is further education in psychiatry.

To thrive in the role, you are a secure and stable person with a genuine interest in people in vulnerable situations. You have the ability to create trusting relationships by listening, understanding, setting clear boundaries, and motivating patients. As a nurse, you are expected to take responsibility, make independent decisions, and contribute to good collaboration in the team.

You work in a structured and solution-focused manner, adapt easily to changed circumstances, and can prioritize in an operation where conditions can change quickly. Furthermore, you are flexible, proactive, and have the ability to plan and organize your work independently.

In the role of responsible nurse, you also have the ability to lead, distribute, and coordinate tasks based on patient needs and the team's combined competence. You appreciate working both close to patients and with operational development, seeing opportunities to contribute to improvement work and the development of care.

The work requires that you can participate in self-defense training. Great importance will be attached to personal suitability.

Welcome to become part of our engaged team!

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In the event of recruiting nurses/doctors with foreign qualifications/specialist certificates, the current position will be preceded by a process to meet the requirements for Swedish qualifications/specialist certificates.

About the Region of Västra Götaland

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You contribute to safe and equal care 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 shape future ways of working to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations.

As a permanent employee, you will be mobilized as part of our shared responsibility for ensuring that socially important functions continue to work even in a crisis.

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