Dietitian - Habilitation for Children and Youth

Habilitation & Health provides specialized care and support to individuals with lasting functional disabilities, 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 disabilities? Welcome to Habilitation & Health, part of the Västra Götaland Region. Habilitation is specialized health and medical care for children and youth with autism, intellectual disabilities, movement disorders, or acquired brain injuries. We provide health-promoting and treatment-based interventions based on each individual's unique needs and circumstances, and have specialized knowledge about how functional disabilities can affect daily life, health, and development. We are looking for someone interested in working with children and youth up to 18 years old with diagnoses such as autism, intellectual disability (ID), cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophies, hereditary metabolic disorders, spina bifida, acquired brain injuries, genetic syndromes, etc. Our specialty is understanding what symptoms these diagnoses can cause and preventing and treating them. We follow our patients over time to see how interventions make a difference in daily life for both patient and family. The service is outpatient-based and operates during daytime hours without on-call duty. Habilitation works in close collaboration with, among others, pediatric clinics, child and adolescent psychiatry clinics, DSBS, primary health care, and school health services. You can read more about Habilitation on our website: www.vgregion.se/hoh Job Responsibilities One of our colleagues has taken on two major assignments at regional and national levels, and therefore we are now seeking a part-time substitute. The position is located within Habilitation for Children and Youth in Gothenburg, placed at the Hisingen clinic. Patients are distributed among one autism/ID clinic and two movement disorder clinics. Patients with autism/ID belong to the Hisingen clinic. As a dietitian, you will have comprehensive knowledge of all patient groups as we collaborate and distribute resources based on needs. You will work in a multidisciplinary team with doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, psychologists, speech therapists, and special educators. Within Habilitation for Children and Youth, we work with the whole picture around the patient together with other professions. You will be able to work independently with assessments, nutritional treatment, and counseling for the patient and people around the patient. The work is primarily directed toward patients with underweight, malnutrition, growth deviations, and eating difficulties due to functional disability. Many of the patients have a gastrostomy, so experience with enteral nutrition is advantageous. The work is varied. Habilitation offers interventions individually or in groups. Interventions are provided directly to the patient or indirectly to relatives and/or staff in the patient's immediate environment. You will be offered an introduction period and collegial supervision. You will be part of a professional group within Habilitation in the Västra Götaland Region and will participate with other dietitians in, among other things, regular professional meetings. Welcome to apply! Qualifications You must be a licensed dietitian. You work based on scientifically proven methods and clinical experience and have a good ability to organize and structure your patient work. If you have experience working with patients in Habilitation's target groups, we consider this a merit. You have the ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. Other Information We are a specialist outpatient clinic with the aim of maintaining broad and deep expertise in our target groups. For us, it is important to provide person-centered care where we work with a focus on creating value for the patient, having good accessibility, and providing good treatment. Habilitation & Health's employment benefits include, among other things, occupational pension, salary exchange, agreement-based insurance, free open health and medical care, and wellness allowance. Within Habilitation & Health, we strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength. Recruiting is ongoing, so you may be contacted before the application deadline has passed. Habilitation Hisingen is a clinic that provides care and support to children and youth with autism up to 6 years old, and to children and youth with intellectual disability, with or without autism, up to 18 years old. Approximately 90 employees work here in multidisciplinary teams with broad expertise and great commitment. Habilitation's clinics in Gothenburg collaborate and strive to offer equivalent and high-quality care. 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 across the Västra Götaland Region every day. You contribute to safe and equal care 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 participate in shaping future working methods to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations. As a permanent employee, you will be included in civil contingency planning as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that vital societal 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 through the recruitment system. If you have questions about the advertised position or have special reasons why you cannot register your information in a public system, please contact the contact person for the respective advertisement. To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you who are salespeople: We politely but firmly decline direct contact from staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and other external actors and sellers of additional job postings. Västra Götaland Region has negotiated agreements.

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