Dedicated Dietitian Needed for Temporary Position

Would you like to be part of the nutritional treatment process and development within Gastroenterology? – Apply for a dietitian position with us at the Gastrointestinal Medicine Clinic! Our clinic places great emphasis on ensuring our employees have the competence needed to achieve the best possible quality of care. Competence is developed through a stimulating, developmental, and learning work environment. The clinic values each employee's competence by fostering a sense of responsibility to drive the organization forward through active participation. Our Offer The Gastrointestinal Medicine Clinic at Linköping University Hospital is a gastroenterological regional clinic serving the Southeastern Healthcare Region. The clinic includes an outpatient clinic for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), liver disease, and functional gastrointestinal disorders (neurogastroenterology), day care, inpatient ward, and endoscopy. The clinic provides healthcare, nursing, and education through competence, empathy, and productive research in a good work climate. We offer you, as a new dietitian, tailored introduction and an inclusive and developmental work environment. We offer great opportunities to influence the dietitian role and its function together with other professions. You will also participate in training days and congresses, and we view continued professional development positively in line with Region Östergötland's competence ladder for dietitians, which encourages continued education within the dietitian role. Please read about your benefits with us; here you will also find information about regulations regarding salary and compensation. Job Description As a dietitian with us, you work with individual nutritional treatment for patients with intestinal and liver diseases. You contribute to assessment of the patient's nutritional status, investigate nutritional difficulties, and prescribe nutritional treatment. You conduct motivational conversations and guide patients toward appropriate lifestyle changes based on individual needs. You work in both inpatient and outpatient care with telephone follow-ups and have your own clinic. Close collaboration will occur with our other dietitian at the clinic. If you are driven to work in an environment with a high degree of autonomy and the opportunity to influence your workday, you will thrive wonderfully with us! Dietitian work includes patient education individually, but also consultation and training of colleagues. Teamwork is an important part of our working method. Work within the clinic's sections is interprofessional and team-based with established networks to other specialties and regular multidisciplinary conferences. Together you jointly assess patient cases, support and help each other to provide our patients with good patient-centered care. You work in various teams, participate in rounds, and are part of the department's nutrition group. The university hospital is also responsible for supervising students, and supervision of dietitian students is part of your role. The clinic's dietitians work closely with other dietitians at the hospital, and regular meetings are arranged with dietitians within Region Östergötland. As an employee with us, it is a natural part of your position to contribute to and participate in current development projects and research, including within nutrition. The clinic plans research studies that include nutritional treatments for IBD and liver disease patients. About You You are a licensed dietitian. If you have experience working as a dietitian within gastroenterology, parenteral and enteral nutrition, this is a merit. You collaborate well with others, are attentive, and communicate clearly. You can also work independently and make decisions that consider the broader context of the organization. Application and Employment The position is a temporary contract until June 20, 2027. Since we conduct continuous recruitment, we would like to receive your application as soon as possible. Before employment in patient-facing work within Region Östergötland, you will be asked to complete a health declaration. We warmly welcome your application! If you need help registering in the system, contact Customer Service Support and Services, 010-103 60 00, during office hours. To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to those who are sales representatives: We politely but firmly decline direct contact from staffing, placement, and recruitment companies as well as other external parties and sellers of additional job advertisements. Region Östergötland has procurement agreements in place.

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