Are You Our Next Colleague on 70D? We're Now Hiring Nursing Assistants!

REGION UPPSALA · Full-time

Uppsala, Sweden

Surgical and Urology Department We are Akademiska sjukhuset – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a county hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we serve healthcare to two million people in Central Sweden. Here, something is constantly happening – a new life is born, a grandmother is operated on, a colleague is celebrated as a hero. With us, you'll experience both difficult challenges and fantastic moments, in a strong sense of community with colleagues. Welcome with your application! Are you interested in advanced surgical care? Do you value a workplace with a strong focus on patient care, where you get to contribute to high-quality care? Then 70D is the workplace for you! Our Operations Surgical Ward 70D is part of the Surgery and Urology department and provides highly specialized care in colorectal, endocrine, and acute surgery. We are also one of four hospitals in Sweden that provides nationally specialized care with HIPEC for patients with disseminated cancer in the peritoneum, as well as care for patients with endocrine abdominal tumors. With us, you'll meet a broad patient population. We care for both patients undergoing planned operations and patients who need acute surgical treatment. Common diagnoses can be cholecystitis, pancreatitis, ileus, or gastrointestinal bleeding, as well as trauma from falls, traffic accidents, and more. Patients are admitted via the emergency department or as direct admissions from other hospitals. The combination of elective and acute surgery creates an educational and varied work environment where no two days are alike. The ward is located high up in the 70 building in bright and modern facilities with spacious single rooms adapted to patients' various care needs. We are a work group consisting of nursing assistants, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and other important health professionals who work together as a team around the surgical patient. Our care is based on the Fundamentals of Care framework where we take a clearly patient-centered approach and place the patient in focus. Here you get to make a difference! To support your development in your professional role, we offer: • Individual and structured introduction • Regular training days • Weekly lectures • Personal scheduling with the opportunity to influence your schedule Your Assignment Are you looking for a developing and varied job in sometimes high-paced work? With us, you'll work in a committed team where we support each other and teamwork is a natural part of everyday life. As a nursing assistant, you work in a team with nurses and are responsible for the patient's basic care, pre- and postoperative care, wound dressing changes, monitoring vital parameters, catheter and drain care, stoma care, and patient mobilization, among other things. Your Qualifications We're looking for you who are a trained nursing assistant with a professional certificate. Previous experience working in hospital care is a merit. You have an interest in surgical care and are curious, committed, and want to develop in your professional role. The work requires that you are responsive and have a patient-centered approach, where you see and meet each patient based on their individual needs. You treat both patients and colleagues with respect. Great importance is placed on personal suitability. What We Offer Permanent full-time employment with shift rotation. Trial employment may be applied. Start date by agreement. Work hours: • Day: 07:00–15:30 • Evening: 13:15–21:45 • Night: 21:00–07:15 With us you get benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/). Want to Know More? Department Manager Isabel da Fonseca Kock, 018-617 50 80, [email protected] Trade union contact person can be reached via switchboard 018-611 00 00 Want to Work With Us? Recruitment is ongoing – send us your application via the link below today! Read about employment terms and salary setting at Region Uppsala here: Become Our New Colleague (https://regionuppsala.se/jobb-och-utbildning/bli-var-nya-kollega/) Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to our operations and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences. Region Uppsala war-positions all permanent employees based on total defense needs. For the individual employee, this entails no obligations in peacetime but is solely a planning measure. Before making an employment decision, a check of suspicion and burden registers is conducted for all job seekers who in the sought position may work within psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and young people, or compulsory care of substance abusers – areas covered by optional register extracts. This applies to all who will work in direct patient contact, even if the work tasks currently are not intended to mainly contain work with the above-mentioned patient groups. This recruitment is conducted entirely by Region Uppsala and we decline telephone calls from recruitment companies and advertising sales representatives.