Registered Nurse wanted for the Eating Disorder Unit, Kungälv

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Hospitals in the West is an administrative division within the Västra Götaland Region and consists of four hospitals – Alingsås Hospital, Angered Community Hospital, Högsbo Community Hospital, and Kungälv Hospital. Approximately 3,000 employees work with us every day to provide excellent and safe specialist healthcare of the highest quality. Are you interested in working in a psychiatric specialist team and thereby having the opportunity to deepen your knowledge and develop your skills within the eating disorder diagnosis area? Västra Götaland Region has decided to strengthen eating disorder care in the region. The decision includes an investment in day care services for children under 18 years old. Do you want to be part of developing a service and have the opportunity to work with the team to influence and shape your work tasks? Then this position might be for you! Description Psychiatry Operations at Hospitals in the West provides psychiatric specialist care for children, adolescents, and adults in the municipalities of Kungälv, Kärra-Rödbo, Stenungsund, Tjörn, and Ale. The operations include adult psychiatric and child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics, two inpatient wards for adults, an emergency department, mobile teams, and specialized units for LARO, DBT, and Eating Disorders. The Unit The Eating Disorder Unit is a specialist unit located at Kungälv Hospital, approximately 20 minutes by bus from Gothenburg. The unit consists of a well-functioning team with physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, occupational therapists, a dietitian, and a physiotherapist. The service currently consists primarily of day care for adults, with individual interventions for adults, children, and adolescents. The unit is now receiving strengthened resources to be able to offer day care for children, which creates a need for additional personnel. During the fall, we will be working on developing our new family day care program, where the team, physicians, and unit manager, together with other stakeholders, will review treatment offerings, facilities, and working methods. We hope that our new employees will be in place soon, so that everyone can participate in this exciting development work and have the opportunity to influence future work tasks. Work Tasks As a registered nurse at the eating disorder unit, you will have highly varied work tasks. An important part of treatment is the somatic monitoring of patients, where you, together with the physician and nursing colleagues, bear primary responsibility. Examples of work tasks beyond this include psychoeducation, supportive counseling, family counseling, collaboration, and meal support. Work tasks are performed both independently and in collaboration with colleagues. The development opportunities for you as a registered nurse in our operations are significant. We view competence development in the form of supervision and training in the field positively. We offer individually tailored orientation, with the arrangement made in consultation with you. Access is available to both team and professional supervision. Qualifications We are seeking you who are a licensed registered nurse. Experience with and interest in the target group is of great importance. You will be part of a personnel group with a good working environment, high competence, and well-established foundational structures to build upon. We work extensively in teams, so we place great emphasis on collaboration skills and personal suitability. It is good to feel secure in your professional role, but at the same time be curious about others' perspectives. The ability to switch between independent work and collaborative efforts is an asset in this position. Other Information We require extracts from the criminal record for everyone offered employment within Psychiatry Operations. Selection and interviews take place on an ongoing basis. Welcome to submit your application! About Västra Götaland Region With us, you become part of a larger whole. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives throughout Västra Götaland every day. You contribute to secure and equitable healthcare and to a sustainable society where the environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life. We are in the midst of digital development where you get to help shape the future way of working to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations. As a permanent employee, you will be assigned civil protection duty as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that socially critical functions work even in times of crisis. Want to know more about us? On our website, you can read more about our benefits and meet employees who make a difference and develop in their professions every day. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ Application Västra Götaland Region prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for special and specific reasons cannot register your information in a public system, please contact the contact person for the respective posting. To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you 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 postings. Västra Götaland Region has procurement agreements.Hospitals in the West is an administrative division within the Västra Götaland Region and consists of four hospitals – Alingsås Hospital, Angered Community Hospital, Högsbo Community Hospital, and Kungälv Hospital. Approximately 3,000 employees work with us every day to provide excellent and safe specialist healthcare of the highest quality. Are you interested in working in a psychiatric specialist team and thereby having the opportunity to deepen your knowledge and develop your skills within the eating disorder diagnosis area? Västra Götaland Region has decided to strengthen eating…

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Kungälv

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Lasarettsgatan 1

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Published

13. 7. 2026

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2. 8. 2026

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