Registered Nurse

VÄSTRA GÖTALANDSREGIONEN · Full-time

Klinikvägen 42, Borås, Sweden

Habilitering & Hälsa offers specialized care and support to individuals with permanent functional disabilities, such as reduced ability to communicate, see, hear, or move. The goal is to maintain and develop functional abilities, create conditions for good health, and enable active participation in society. Do you want to make a difference for people with functional disabilities? Welcome to Habilitering & Hälsa, part of Västra Götalandsregionen. Together we have the power to create change. Habilitering is specialized healthcare for adults with autism, intellectual disability, mobility impairment, or acquired brain injury. We provide health-promoting and therapeutic interventions based on each individual's unique needs and circumstances, and we have specialist knowledge about how functional disabilities can affect daily life, health, and development. Job Description Here you will have the opportunity to work as part of an interdisciplinary team providing services to adults within Habilitering's target groups. You will be the only nurse at the clinic where you work closely with physicians and other team members. You will have regular contact with other nurses at our other Habilitering clinics throughout the region. In teamwork, you contribute important pieces based on your professional expertise. Specialized interventions are provided based on health problems related to the patient's functional disability that cause significant difficulties in daily life. Habilitering Borås's catchment area includes municipalities in Södra Älvsborg, and the workplace is located in Borås. The work includes travel to our clinic in Alingsås. We are now seeking a registered nurse for Habilitering Borås. Welcome to apply! Duties Within your area of competence, the nurse's duties are to investigate and assess health problems based on the patient's functional disability, and plan and carry out interventions to give the patient increased opportunities to improve and/or maintain their health. All interventions are planned together with the patient and, if needed, their network. Duties are related to questions about healthy living habits, pain, nutrition, breathing/circulation, skin/tissue, elimination, and pain. Consultation with the patient/network is a recurring intervention. You also work with follow-up according to a national quality register for patients with spina bifida, follow-up of patients with multiple functional disabilities, and patients with neuromuscular diseases. Collaboration with colleagues in regional and municipal primary care and with colleagues in other medical specialties is a natural part of your duties. You frequently coordinate care contacts the patient already has or needs. Interventions can be provided individually or in groups during defined periods. Digital visits are conducted when possible. Work takes place primarily in the facility's premises and, as needed, in the patient's local environment. We are looking for you who - Are a licensed registered nurse with specialist training in open healthcare. It is advantageous if you have several years of professional experience, experience from regional/municipal primary care, and experience working in interdisciplinary teams. - Have experience, interest, and knowledge of working with people in our target group. Further education in psychiatry or equivalent is advantageous. - Are responsible and feel confident working both in a team and independently. - Are flexible, solution-focused, have the ability to structure your work, and have good collaboration skills. - Have a driver's license (category B) as the work involves travel. Great weight is placed on personal suitability. We offer - A challenging and meaningful job where you can develop in your professional role. - Here you will use both breadth and depth within your professional field in collaboration between patient, family members, and other professionals. - A pleasant work environment and engaged colleagues with high expertise. - Varied work with opportunities to develop activities and working methods. - An introductory period with opportunities for peer mentoring and joint professional development meetings with other nurses in habilitering throughout the region. - Skills development based on your needs and the organization's needs. About the Recruitment Process Recruitment is ongoing and you may be contacted before the application deadline has passed. We plan interviews for weeks 42-43. Within Habilitering & Hälsa we strive for equal gender distribution and view diversity as a strength, where our employees' differences enrich and develop the organization. Welcome to apply! About Västra Götalandsregionen With us, you become part of something larger. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who every day make a difference in people's lives throughout Västra Götaland. You contribute to safe and equitable healthcare and to a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life. We are in the midst of digital development where you get to help shape the working methods of the future to improve and simplify daily life for residents and organizations. As a permanent employee, you will be classified as civil protection personnel as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that societally critical functions work even in crisis. Want to know more about us? On our website you can read more about our benefits and meet employees who every day make a difference and develop in their professions. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ Application Västra Götalandsregionen prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for specific and special reasons cannot register your information in a public system - contact the contact person for the respective ad. To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to those selling additional job postings: We politely but firmly decline direct contact from staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and other external actors and sellers of additional job postings. Västra Götalandsregionen has procurement agreements.