Welcome to the Health and Care Administration. We provide support and care to elderly people and people with disabilities. Our goal is to help them live as active and independent lives as possible.
The Health and Care Administration is one of Sweden's largest employers within municipal health and care. About 7,500 employees work here based on our core values – making a difference, working together, and welcoming innovation. With us, there are great opportunities to take personal responsibility, develop, and contribute your expertise. We strive for an organizational culture with mutual trust and pride in our work.
You can find more information about what it's like to work in Uppsala Municipality at https://www.uppsala.se/jobb/vard-halsa-omsorg/
Within the Health and Care Administration, full-time employment is the norm. This means all permanent employees are based on full-time contracts. More information about what this means for this position will be provided at any interview. Personal assistants are exempt from the full-time norm.
2 position(s).
Are you interested in trying something new and want meaningful work where you really make a difference in people's everyday lives? Are you studying to become an occupational therapist and want to gain valuable work experience alongside your studies? Then this might be the right position for you.
We're looking for you to become part of our dedicated team and work as an occupational therapy assistant within health and care services in the home, under the Care Board.
Warmly welcome to apply!
Description of Work Tasks
As an occupational therapy assistant, you are an important support in our operations and work closely with our occupational therapists. You perform independent work tasks after instruction and guidance, and you will have a mentor who supports your development.
An important part of the work is supporting patients' activity capacity. Under guidance from your mentor, you will participate in adapting activities and environments based on patient needs. The work may include training patients in the use of various assistive devices, both physical and cognitive, as well as following up interventions in the patient's home environment.
You will become part of a dedicated team where occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and nurses work together around the patient. This position is a valuable complement to our current operations and gives you a unique opportunity to develop within your future profession.
Fyrisborgsgatan 1 in Uppsala is our shared base. Here you'll meet colleagues, plan your work, and head out for the day's home visits with patients. On the same floor as the Care Board's licensed staff, which creates excellent conditions for close collaboration, knowledge sharing, and joint development with other professions. The proximity to colleagues makes it easy to get support, share knowledge, and participate in development and training activities together with other professions.
This is a project position for 1 year and includes approximately 20%.
Working hours are Monday to Friday, 07:30–16:00.
Qualifications
We're looking for you who:
Have completed and been approved for term four of the Occupational Therapy Program at Uppsala University.
Have been approved for the two clinical placement periods completed during your studies.
Have a driver's license (category B).
Have good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both spoken and written.
We're looking for you who have the ability to work independently after guidance from your mentor. You take responsibility for your work tasks and work goal-oriented. Since the work involves close collaboration with colleagues and your occupational therapy mentor, it's important that you have good collaboration skills and relate to others in a responsive and flexible way. You have good empathetic ability and can understand patients' and relatives' situations without taking on their emotions, which is important when working with our patients in health and care services in the home.
Information
If you have questions about the position, contact: Gunilla Myrberg, Operations Manager, 018-727 80 92
Union representative: Swedish Occupational Therapists, Eva-Carin Lindgren, 018-727 84 93.
If you have questions regarding registration of your application or the recruitment process, contact the recruitment unit: 018-726 3774.
We will request an extract from the criminal record before employment can be offered.
Uppsala Municipality applies individual and differentiated salary setting according to applicable salary agreements.
In your application, you must state your citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must also be able to provide proof that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only take place after verification of work permit, as required by the Aliens Ordinance.
Employment with Uppsala Municipality may involve civil defense placement.
Salary form: Monthly salary.
Type of employment: Fixed-term employment.
Duration: 6 months or longer, start date: By agreement.Welcome to the Health and Care Administration. We provide support and care to elderly people and people with disabilities. Our goal is to help them live as active and independent lives as possible.
The Health and Care Administration is one of Sweden's largest employers within municipal health and care. About 7,500 employees work here based on our core values – making a difference, working together, and welcoming innovation. With us, there are great opportunities to take personal responsibility, develop, and contribute your expertise. We strive for an organizational culture with mutual trust…