Nurse at the Addiction Treatment Center

The Psychiatric Clinic in Linköping is a university clinic with many different operations. We offer psychiatric and addiction medicine specialist care. We collaborate with other healthcare providers and community actors at both the organizational level and in individual cases. Interested in addiction care? We are now looking for a new team member at the addiction treatment center. Are you looking for work where you can make a difference for the whole person, work that is developmental and challenging? Then maybe you are the right person for us? Our Offer The addiction treatment center and youth center MiniMaria are part of the psychiatric clinic's outpatient care. The addiction treatment center also includes Landeryd's meadows. The centers are integrated operations with Linköping Municipality, which means we can offer our patients integrated, person-centered addiction medicine, psychiatric, and psychosocial care. We are at the forefront of research and care. Within addiction care, we meet people of different ages, life situations, and socioeconomic backgrounds with different needs for support, care, and services. Treatment interventions are both preventive and therapeutic. The interventions are often a combination of psychosocial treatment, medication treatment, and treatment of comorbidity. We offer interventions both individually and in groups. With us, you will have the opportunity to use your creativity, curiosity, and social competence. We strive to provide our patients with safe and respectful care with a person-centered approach. Please read about our career ladder for nurses and about your benefits with us; here you will also find information about regulations regarding salary and compensation. Job Description At the addiction treatment center, you will meet patients who have harmful use and/or addiction to alcohol, drugs, medication, or gambling. Some of our patients have psychiatric comorbidity. As a nurse, you work in a team. You are responsible for your own patients and, in consultation with the physician, you perform assessments, treatment interventions, and follow-ups based on evidence-based methods. Together with colleagues in the interdisciplinary team, you identify what interventions are needed based on the individual's needs and what can be offered. Care interventions are based on person-centered care where the individual's participation is crucial. As a nurse, you are responsible for care of your own patients, you develop care plans together with the patient and physician, administer medications, are responsible for monitoring medication initiation and blood tests. In meetings with the individual, you conduct assessment and motivational conversations as well as relapse prevention. The work may also include informing and educating other actors about addiction care or conducting patient education. A large part of the work involves collaboration with various community actors and other healthcare. Work Team With us work specialist physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, psychologists, occupational therapist, care administrator, and social workers. We have a good work climate and a well-functioning team where everyone's expertise is utilized. Work spirit and well-being are important to us; we collaborate, help, and learn from each other. About You We are looking for you who are a registered nurse or trained specialist nurse in psychiatry. Experience in addiction or psychiatric care is highly desirable. We would like you to have experience with motivational interviewing and relapse prevention, but it is not a requirement. As you work in constant dialogue with patients and colleagues, it is a requirement that you have good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written. The work requires good computer skills as you will work in different IT systems. For this position, we are looking for someone who can work independently and is confident in yourself. You should be able to plan and structure your own workday. You adapt easily to changing circumstances and can see opportunities in changes. Being flexible is an important part. Flexibility with us means being able to adapt to the current situation and change focus, which is crucial as unforeseen events occur daily. Your ability to collaborate is an important part, and we would like to see that you are outgoing and socially active in professional contexts. You want to develop as a person and contribute to continued development of the operation. To thrive and fit in with us, your personal qualities are important. Application and Employment We do not use continuous selection in this recruitment. You are warmly welcome to submit your application by the final application date. After this date, we will review all received applications. Before employment in patient-facing work at Region Östergötland, you will be asked to complete a health declaration. We warmly welcome your application! 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