Nursing Assistant to Operating Room at Angered Local Hospital

Western Gothia Region's Hospitals is an administrative unit within the Western Gothia Region and consists of four hospitals – Alingsås Hospital, Angered Local Hospital, Högsbo Local Hospital, and Kungälv Hospital. Approximately 3000 employees work with us every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare of the highest quality. Description Angered Local Hospital is the small hospital with a large mission. The operating room department at Angered Local Hospital is an organizational unit employing approximately 35 employees responsible for the entire surgical process. Here, operating room coordinators, anesthesiologists, registered nurses, nursing assistants, and the unit manager work together with the patient as our focus. The operating room at Angered Local Hospital has four surgical suites and a pre- and post-operative unit well adapted for the mission. We treat patients in the areas of surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, and urology both independently and in collaboration with Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Angered Operating Room also has a major responsibility for the insertion and removal of venous ports. We perform surgery on both children and adults. We are seeking a nursing assistant who wants to work with day surgery, where you will meet both children and adults. As a nursing assistant in the operating room, you are an important part of the surgical team and work closely with operating room nurses, anesthesia nurses, surgeons, and anesthesiologists. You need to be highly flexible as you will assist both the surgical and anesthesia teams during operations. You will work both in the surgical suite and help our day surgery patients before and after surgery in the pre- and post-operative unit. No two days are alike, which gives you great opportunities to continuously expand your competencies. The work pace varies, and you work in a high-technology environment where the patient is the focus. We offer you thorough training together with our experienced nursing assistants. It is important to us that you feel secure. Qualifications You are a trained nursing assistant with substantial experience working in an operating room department. Good proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written, is required. Experience with day surgery workflows, pediatric anesthesia, and post-operative patient care is desirable. Your approach is characterized by concern for people and you have a good ability to work in a team with other professions. We work without hierarchy in our processes and workflows, which means you need to be open to change and development. We place great emphasis on personal suitability and we advocate for diversity in our recruitment process. Terms The schedule is fixed and arranged on weekdays during daytime, with shifts where approximately once a week you start later and work until 17:00 or 18:00. Other Information Selection is ongoing. We warmly welcome your application! About Western Gothia 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 across Western Gothia every day. You contribute to safe and equitable healthcare as well as to a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communication create quality of life. We are in the midst of digital development where you get to participate in shaping the future ways of working to improve and simplify everyday life for residents and operations. As a permanent employee, you will be registered for war placement as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that societally critical functions work even in a crisis. Do you 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 Western Gothia Region prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you as an applicant have questions about the advertised position or for particular and special reasons cannot register your information in a public system, please contact the contact person for the respective announcement. To staffing, recruitment, and employment agencies and to you as a sales representative: We politely but firmly decline direct contact from staffing, recruitment, and employment agencies and other external actors and sellers of additional job postings. Western Gothia Region has contracted agreements.

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