Nursing Assistant (Night Shift) at the Eating Disorders Center in Lund

Make a difference. Every day. Do you want to contribute your commitment and knowledge to an operation where you and your expertise play a crucial role in our patients' recovery? Then we welcome you to the Adult Psychiatry Department 5 for eating disorders in Lund. The Eating Disorders Center offers highly specialized 24-hour care and day care services. The operation has a regional mandate, which means we receive patients from throughout Scania. We also offer outpatient care for patients residing in Lund. At the Eating Disorders Center, approximately 40 people work across professional categories including nurses, medical secretaries, social workers, nursing assistants, psychologists, doctors, physiotherapists, and dietitians. Region Scania has received additional assignments within the framework of nationally specialized care (NHV), and for the first time, psychiatry in Scania has also received NHV for difficult-to-treat eating disorders. Here there is extensive experience, high competence, and a strong drive to develop precisely this. 1 position(s). WORK TASKS As a nursing assistant on the night shift, you work in a treatment team together with a nurse and are responsible for both psychiatric and somatic care. You contribute to creating safe and calm conditions for good nighttime sleep for our patients. Work tasks include, among other things, being meal support during evening snacks and preparing patients' breakfasts. Monitoring of vital signs may occur, as well as being available as conversational support when needed. You also conduct regular supervision rounds on the ward to ensure patients' well-being during the night. Our work is characterized by building and further developing relationships with our patients. Here we actively work to establish a good alliance and build trust with our patients. Great emphasis is placed on motivational work through, for example, conversations. We are significant support in the individual's work in their unique change process. With us, there are good opportunities for personal development, and we are looking for people who can actively participate in the unit's improvement work. We want to give you good tools and conditions to thrive and succeed with us, and new employees receive an individually adapted introduction. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who are trained as a nursing assistant or specialist nursing assistant in psychiatry and who meet the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for a protected professional title, regardless of whether you studied according to the previous or current program structure. Since the work largely involves communication and documentation, good language skills in Swedish, both spoken and written, are a requirement. Applicants who currently hold a permanent position with the professional title caregiver may apply and will, if hired, retain the professional title caregiver (however, no later than 2033 when the title caregiver ceases within our operations). We would like you to have experience working as a caregiver and/or nursing assistant. It is an asset if you have experience working in psychiatry or with patients with mental health issues. Experience working with patients with eating disorder problems is particularly valuable. We also see experience as a nursing assistant in somatic care as advantageous, as well as training in conversation methodology and experience leading groups and teamwork. Good computer skills and basic knowledge of our medical records system Melior are also beneficial. As a person, you are flexible and have the ability for innovative and holistic thinking. You have the patient in focus and have an easy time building trust. In our daily work, rapid changes often occur, which requires abilities such as overview, planning, and structure. Therefore, you need to be able to work independently and have an easy time collaborating. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. As part of the suitability assessment, prior to deciding to offer employment, a check may be made of the suspicion and burden register. Read more here about when a check may be relevant: https://www.skane.se/jobb-och-utbildning/jobba-hos-oss/att-jobba-i-region-skane/villkor-och-formaner/#418025 We apply continuous selection. We warmly welcome your application; we look forward to getting to know you! Employment form: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent, start date: Start date by agreement. For your application to be considered complete, you need to attach your proof of protected professional title from the National Board of Health and Welfare. If you have not yet received your proof of protected professional title, grades (not just a diploma) from your care and health education must be attached, as well as grades in Swedish or Swedish as a second language at upper secondary level. If you were employed as a nursing assistant on July 1, 2023, or if you were employed as a caregiver before November 1, 2023, provide a certificate of service proving this. You need to show proof of a protected professional title from the National Board of Health and Welfare. If you have not yet received your proof of protected professional title, grades (not just a diploma) from your care and health education and grades in Swedish or Swedish as a second language at upper secondary level must be attached. If you do not have the proof, you may be hired as a psychiatric care assistant while waiting for the proof. If you were employed as a nursing assistant on July 1, 2023, or if you were employed as a caregiver before November 1, 2023, provide a certificate of service proving this. On the National Board of Health and Welfare's website, you can read more about the protected professional title for nursing assistants and what transitional rules apply: https://legitimation.socialstyrelsen.se/skyddad-yrkestitel-for-underskoterska/ The task within psychiatry is to provide specialized care in publicly operated child, adult, and forensic psychiatry. Habilitation provides rehabilitation services within publicly operated child, youth, and adult habilitation. Assistive devices have the task of managing assistive devices prescribed to patients in Scania. The department also includes vision, hearing, and deaf services and youth clinics in Scania. At http://www.skane.se/ledigajobb, you can see the status of Region Scania's recruitments and how many have applied for the positions.

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