Coordinator for Youth and Adult Rehabilitation, Umeå

Region Västerbotten works to ensure that good health and sustainable development strengthen each other. We take responsibility for equitable welfare and for ensuring that research and innovation yield results. The Rehabilitation Center is a base unit consisting of child and youth rehabilitation, specialized support and rehabilitation for adults, as well as vision rehabilitation and hearing rehabilitation. The operations provide counseling and other personal support according to LSS as well as rehabilitation and habilitation services to children, youth, and adults with permanent functional limitations. The Rehabilitation Center is a regional operation with approximately 170 employees with workplaces in Lycksele, Skellefteå, and Umeå. The operation's mission is to contribute to good health and the best possible functional ability, as well as good conditions for an independent life and active participation in society for the children, youth, and adults we serve. We are seeking a coordinator for Youth and Adult Rehabilitation in Umeå. We provide rehabilitation services as well as advice and support under the Health and Medical Care Act to youth and adults with significant and/or permanent functional limitations, as well as to individuals with intellectual disabilities and/or autism. We offer flexible working hours and the opportunity for wellness hours during work time or a wellness allowance. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS As a coordinator with us, you contribute knowledge and commitment that help people feel secure. In your role, you provide psychosocial support to youth and adults with functional limitations and to their next of kin. Work tasks include collaboration with the individual's network, such as representatives, staff groups, psychiatry, social services, health and medical care, the Social Insurance Agency, and the Employment Agency. The work often takes place in the individual's immediate environment and through consultative interventions. You participate in planning and conducting training and group activities for clients/next of kin and their network. Beyond your own professional work, you are also responsible for case management and individual planning, as well as student supervision. The work team includes coordinators, psychologists, physiotherapists, speech-language pathologists, and occupational therapists. You contribute your specific expertise to the team. You can expect well-established onboarding and everything is done with the support of competent colleagues with extensive experience. We highly value systematic occupational health and safety work and our employees' perspectives. Annually, we conduct profession-specific training initiatives that are region-wide and designed to suit specific professional groups. We offer you meaningful and developmental work. With us, you receive professional support from your professional coordinator, and joint professional meetings are held across the region twice a year. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for someone with a degree in social work, preferably with further specialization. You also have good knowledge of significant and permanent functional limitations and the consequences they can have on a person's life. You have experience working with people with psychiatric and neuropsychiatric diagnoses. You are able to collaborate effectively and share knowledge with the individual, family, and other networks, such as the Social Insurance Agency, Employment Agency, and social services, regarding the consequences of the functional limitation. Working in a team as well as independently comes naturally to you. It is advantageous if you have experience working with youth and adults with functional limitations and are a licensed health and medical care coordinator. We will place high value on personal qualities and we seek someone who is responsive, respectful of the client/individual's and next of kin's needs, has good planning and organizational ability, strong collaboration skills, and a clear interest in working in interdisciplinary teams. We are looking for someone who, through their personality, is expected to be a complement to others in the work team. You must have a class B driver's license as the work involves travel. Employment type: Fixed-term employment. Duration: 6 months or longer, start date: November 1, 2026. Start date by agreement., end date: June 30, 2027. Work hours: Day shift. Read more about our benefits for working with us at the website https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner We strive for gender balance and see diversity as a strength, and therefore welcome applications from people with different backgrounds. In preparing the recruitment process, we have decided on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request that we not be contacted by media sales representatives, recruitment websites, and similar. If you have a protected identity and want to apply, you contact the recruiting manager and then submit your application documents by mail.

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