Occupational Therapist at Habilitation Services in Trelleborg

REGION SKÅNE · Full-time

Region Skåne, Trelleborg, Sweden

Make a difference. Every day. Would you like to be part of meaningful and developmental work where you make a difference for children, young people, and adults with disabilities? At Habilitation in Trelleborg, you will work in a dedicated team with a focus on participation, person-centered care, and a salutogenic approach. Habilitation exists to make life more possible for people with permanent disabilities, as well as for their relatives and networks. Disabilities may include mobility impairments, intellectual disabilities, and/or autism. Trelleborg Habilitation Services is divided into three teams: one team focused on adults and two teams focused on children and youth. This position is primarily based in the adult team, with ongoing collaboration across team boundaries. Our workplace values participation for our patients and their networks. We use a salutogenic approach, which means that everything we do should be meaningful, understandable, and manageable. This perspective characterizes our entire operation, not just in meetings with our patients but in all aspects of our administration. Please feel free to watch videos where our employees talk about their work in our operation/administration: Make a difference for others - Habilitation and Assistive Devices: https://vard.skane.se/habilitering-och-hjalpmedel/jobba-hos-oss/gor-skillnad-for-andra/ Employees share their experiences - Habilitation and Assistive Devices: https://vard.skane.se/habilitering-och-hjalpmedel/jobba-hos-oss/medarbetare-berattar/ 1 position(s). JOB RESPONSIBILITIES We work person-centered with the goal that each patient receives support for a functioning and meaningful daily life. As an occupational therapist, you are responsible for the occupational therapy perspective in the team and provide support, advice, and education based on the patient's disability and how it affects daily life. Interventions can also be directed toward the patient's network and surrounding personnel. In this role, you will assess needs and implement interventions that strengthen the patient's activity capacity and participation in daily life. Planning is conducted in close collaboration with the patient and their network. You work closely with colleagues within the operation and external partners, contributing your specific expertise. The work also includes assessment, prescription, and follow-up of assistive devices. Interventions can be provided individually or in groups, as well as digitally or physically. Together with physiotherapists and speech-language pathologists, you are also responsible for patient follow-up within the quality registers CPUP and MMCUP. You will be an important part of the team's work in creating good and safe care for patients. Upon employment, you will receive introduction and mentoring from experienced occupational therapy colleagues both at the unit and in the area, who provide support in daily work. Travel is part of the position, and a service vehicle is available. Working hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 08.00–16.30, Tuesday from 08.00–18.30, and Friday from 08.00–14.30. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you to be a licensed occupational therapist with authorization to practice in Swedish healthcare. Swedish language proficiency at a minimum level C1 according to the Council of Europe's scale is required. Additionally, a category B driver's license is required. Since bathing may occur for our patients, swimming ability is also required. Previous experience working in habilitation is meriting. To thrive with us, you are collaborative, flexible, self-directed, and able to handle situations when the pace is occasionally high. You also have good ability to organize and structure your work. The work requires curiosity and understanding of patients who rarely function according to norms. This requires adaptations in work methods and perspective-taking, and your ability to create individual and creative solutions to problems based on patients' circumstances. As part of the suitability assessment before offering employment, a check may be made against the suspicion and burden register. Read more here about when a check may be relevant: https://www.skane.se/jobb-och-utbildning/jobba-hos-oss/att-jobba-i-region-skane/villkor-och-formaner/#418025 In this recruitment, we apply continuous selection. You are warmly welcome to submit your application! Employment form: Permanent position. Duration: Start date to be agreed upon. Region Skåne exists to ensure that everyone living in Skåne feels good and has faith in the future. Through boundless collaboration and care, we create the best conditions for a healthy life in business, public transportation, culture, and healthcare in Skåne. Together we make life more possible. Psychiatry, Habilitation and Assistive Devices is the second-largest administration with operations throughout Skåne. We have a broad mandate where many different competencies together provide our patients with the best care and support. With curiosity and great interest, we also invest in development and research. The mandate within psychiatry is to provide specialized care in publicly operated child, adult, and forensic psychiatry. Habilitation provides habilitation and rehabilitation within publicly operated child, youth, and adult habilitation. Assistive Devices is responsible for handling assistive devices prescribed to patients in Skåne. Within the administration, there are also vision, hearing, and deaf services and youth clinics in Skåne. 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