Licensed Physical Therapist for Health and Care Services

Description:

For a living Kiruna. One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are hundreds of competencies, thousands of people and generations of experience that together provide security, care, inspire, teach, save lives, think new, move cities, support each other and care for people. With pride and care. From mountains to city. Today and tomorrow for a living Kiruna. There is something fine in that. Do you also want to work for life, people and the future in Kiruna Municipality? Do you want to create value and make a real difference for what matters? The Social Services Department's mission is to meet people's needs for security. The department shall work to ensure that the municipality's residents receive social care in various forms and with special responsibility for safeguarding the needs and interests of vulnerable groups. We constantly work for good quality that benefits the users of our services. 1 position(s). WORK DUTIES Your work duties include investigating and assessing the need for physiotherapy interventions. You work to improve or maintain the individual's abilities and compensate for any reduced functional capacity. Your professional role includes prescribing and testing various assistive devices. You disseminate knowledge about rehabilitation methods and approaches and guide and train care personnel in transfer techniques and handling of assistive devices. Within the health and care services department, we work with quality and development initiatives in various areas. Your work areas will be within home care/residential care/LSS and psychiatry within Kiruna Municipality. Start date by agreement. Work is arranged during daytime hours. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who are a licensed physical therapist/physiotherapist. As a person, you are positive and confident in yourself. You have a good ability to see the whole picture and are skilled at structuring and organizing your work independently in an efficient manner. You enjoy working in a team and value good collaboration between other professions to contribute to and develop the operation forward. You are skilled in your interactions and maintain a professional and respectful approach when meeting with users and colleagues. You have good digital skills and documentation abilities. Previous experience from municipal health and care services is meritorious, but not a requirement. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. Criminal Records Check: Before a possible employment, you must present an extract from the criminal records register (which includes the suspected persons register) in an unopened envelope. The extract is ordered via the Police website. https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret?mtm_campaign=utdrag&mtm_kwd=post0623 Employment Type: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: Start date by agreement. To work with us, you must share Kiruna Municipality's common values where respect, responsibility and collaboration are the guiding principles. We offer a pleasant work environment and stimulating work tasks and that you as an employee get a good balance between work and leisure. We have many different benefits where you as an employee can exercise free of charge at various training facilities up to 5000 SEK/year, we have cottages in the mountains that you can rent, we offer the opportunity to convert salary to free days. We strive for equal gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, we welcome employees with different backgrounds and work to make our workplaces accessible to all. Kiruna Municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an option. It is meritorious if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sámi and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna Municipality is an administrative area for these languages. Kiruna Municipality applies individual and differentiated salaries. If you proceed in the recruitment process, you will be presented with a salary range relevant to you at the interview. We would like you to read information about our collective agreements, local agreements and what we as an employer have to offer before we meet you for a possible interview, you can find them here: https://kiruna.se/naringsliv--arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/kommunen-som-arbetsgivare.html Kiruna Municipality has issued a medieval decree for this recruitment and therefore declines contact with ad sellers or other sellers of recruitment services.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Kiruna

Address

Stadshustorget 1

GPS

67.8454507, 20.2623241copyopen in

Email

[email protected]

Phone

0980-79618

Views

4

Published

10. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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