Occupational Therapist Needed for Habilitation Gothenburg!
Habilitation & Health offers specialized care and support to individuals with permanent functional limitations; such as reduced ability to communicate, see, hear, or move. The goal is to maintain and develop functional capacity, create conditions for good health, and enable active participation in society. Do you want to make a difference for people with functional limitations? Welcome to Habilitation & Health, part of the Västra Götaland Region. Together we have the strength to create change. Habilitation is specialized health care for adults with autism, intellectual disabilities, mobility impairments, or acquired brain injuries. We provide health-promoting and treatment interventions based on each individual's unique needs and circumstances, and have specialist knowledge about how functional limitations can affect daily life, health, and development. Description As an occupational therapist at Habilitation, you play an important role in team-based work, where the multidisciplinary team's efforts aim to make patients' daily lives function well. We are now seeking an occupational therapist for one of our teams, primarily serving adults with congenital or early-onset functional limitations such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual disabilities. This is a permanent full-time position. The workplace is located in central Gothenburg. We welcome your application! Duties You will have an exciting variety of work tasks that include assessing functional and activity capacity and supporting patients in creating structure, routine, and insight for greater balance and independence in daily life. Common interventions include assessing the need for and prescribing assistive devices to compensate for functional limitations. The work also includes providing information, guidance, and consultation to patients and their surroundings, as well as collaborating with other healthcare providers and authorities, such as Primary Care Rehabilitation, the Assistive Device Center, and the municipality. Another common and important task is following patients over time according to follow-up programs CPUP and MMCUP. Habilitation works in teams with colleagues both within your own profession and in other professions. We offer both individual treatment and group-based treatment (BIG), such as Ha Koll and Living with CP. Digital care visits are common. We offer you an introductory period and good opportunities for collegial support from a designated mentor. We work continuously with professional development, both locally and regionally with other occupational therapists in adult habilitation and strive for continuous competence development through collegial learning, seminar days, and training based on needs. Habilitation has developed a Career Development Model for occupational therapists to support competence enhancement. Qualifications We are seeking a licensed occupational therapist with knowledge and experience working with the diagnostic groups mentioned above. You should be skilled in assessment and treatment, including experience and knowledge of assistive devices/tools that compensate for these difficulties. It is an asset if you have training/experience with occupational therapy assessment instruments/methods targeting the above groups, such as Ka-Tid, PRPP, CO-OP. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability; we therefore require qualities such as the ability to prioritize, be flexible, work independently, and have good collaborative skills. Experience with teamwork is therefore an asset. Other Information Our target groups are people over 18 years old with congenital or early-onset functional limitations that create difficulties in daily life. The service is regulated by the Healthcare Act and is a complement to other healthcare services. For us, person-centered care is important, with a focus on creating value for the patient through accessibility and good treatment. To achieve this, we need to conduct evidence-based care but also dare to try new working methods to reach our operational goals. Within Habilitation & Health, we strive for gender balance and see diversity as a strength, where our employees' differences enrich and develop our operations. Recruitment is ongoing and you may be contacted before the application deadline. Habilitation & Health's employment benefits include occupational pension, salary exchange, flexible work hours, group insurance, free open healthcare, and wellness contributions. You can read more about Habilitation on our website http://www.vgregion.se/hoh About Västra Götaland Region With us, you become part of something larger. 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 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 be part of shaping tomorrow's working methods to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations. As a permanent employee, you will be registered 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 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 submit your application through the recruitment system. If you 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 job posting. To staffing, recruitment, and employment agencies and to you who are salespeople: We kindly but firmly decline direct contact from staffing, recruitment, and employment agencies as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job postings. Västra Götaland Region has procurement agreements in place.
- Město
- Göteborg
- Adresa
- Ekelundsgatan 8
- GPS
- 57.704093879629, 11.961338603759
- Publikováno
- 17. 8. 2026
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