Outpatient Psychiatric Care, Care and Support Coordination Team (VOSS), Jönköping

VOSS, part of the Outpatient Psychiatric Care, is a care and support coordination team working with individuals who have long-term disabilities caused by mental illness and require coordinated interventions from specialist psychiatry and municipal housing support. We actively strive to find new paths and design good, effective treatment and care. We are now looking for a nurse who wants to be part of developing this activity. We warmly welcome your application!

The Role of the Nurse

As a nurse in the Care and Support Coordination Team, you work with coordinated interventions based on the working model: Care and Support Coordination (VOS). The individuals we meet often have complex needs, and it is crucial to be able to see and meet each individual based on their specific conditions.

You work independently as a contact person in close collaboration with housing support and are part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of nurses, care coordinators, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, and physicians.

The position is a fixed-term assignment lasting 10 months from the start date. There may be an opportunity for extension. Start date as soon as possible or by agreement. Working hours Monday to Friday, daytime.

Your Future Workplace

The Psychiatric Clinic in Jönköping is one of the county's largest clinics, offering both outpatient and inpatient specialist psychiatric care. The department has seven outpatient clinics, six inpatient wards, and a psychiatric emergency clinic offering acute assessments around the clock.

The clinic provides psychiatric specialist care for residents over 18 years old. Parts of the clinic also serve as a county resource responsible for psychiatric intensive care, addiction treatment, forensic psychiatry, and emergency services, handling acute cases within both adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.

In outpatient care, we work with specialist interventions in neuropsychiatry, addiction treatment, psychosis care, general psychiatry, and psychiatric rehabilitation. We work in teams providing assessment, investigation, treatment, and rehabilitation interventions.

More information about the Psychiatric Clinic in Jönköping can be found here (https://rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/arbetsplatser-i-region-jonkopings-lan/sjukhus-som-arbetsplats/arbetsplatser-pa-lanssjukhuset-ryhov/psykiatriska-kliniken-som-arbetsplats/).

The Care and Support Coordination Team (VOSS) is a team that, based on the political goal of Equal Care, targets the most severely ill within psychiatric outpatient care at Ryhov. Patients are referred from the general psychiatric clinic and the Neuropsychiatric Clinic (NPT). The purpose is to ensure patients maintain contact with the care and support system, reduce the number and length of hospital stays in the long term, and improve patients' social functioning and quality of life.

Your Profile

We are looking for you who are a registered nurse and preferably have further education in psychiatry and experience in psychiatric care. A B-driver's license is required for the job as travel occurs within the role.

To thrive in this role, we believe you are someone who can work both independently and in a team, and who adapts easily to prevailing circumstances. You need to be flexible and able to plan your interventions yourself. You are driven, have a desire to think new thoughts, and are resilient. Since you will be in contact with many different people, we consider it important that you are a good collaborator and have the ability to put yourself in others' perspectives. You work according to a psycho-pedagogical approach, are confident in yourself, and are open to learning new treatment methods. You are engaged with patients and their relatives. Personal suitability is highly valued.

Our Offer to You

We offer stimulating and developing work with good opportunities for competence development. Together, we have fun at work in an environment characterized by good camaraderie, where we want you to contribute your skills and personality.

As an employee with us in Region Jönköping County, you have access to our employment benefits. Some increase your basic security, while others add a bit of gold to everyday life. Read more about our benefits here (http://www.rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Jobba-hos-oss/Formaner/).

Do you have questions about the position?

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Unit Manager Anna Neij, 010-242 37 79, [email protected].

We are happy to receive calls from you who are interested in the job, but we decline calls from those selling advertising and recruitment services.

Our Recruitment Process

The last day for applications is 2026-08-17. Due to summer holidays, the processing of application documents will not begin until week 34. Therefore, we do not have the opportunity to respond before then.

Apply now! Prior to employment, the employer will request that you show an extract from the police criminal record. A record in this register may affect your possibility of employment.

Read more about Region Jönköping County's recruitment process on our website: Our Recruitment Process, Region Jönköping County (https://rjl.se/jobb-och-karriar/Lediga-jobb/Var-rekryteringsprocess/).