Together we are developing Sahlgrenska University Hospital for a sustainable future. We are transforming healthcare with the goal of becoming Europe's leading university hospital by 2032. Working alongside patients, we strive for quality, accessibility, patient safety, research, education, and innovation – as part of an integrated healthcare system in the Västra Götaland Region. Our vision and goals are aimed at delivering the highest quality care, where the patient is always the focus. We provide healthcare services locally and regionally, as well as highly specialized care to patients throughout the country and abroad. Our employees are our strength and they contribute to knowledge exchange nationally and internationally. With digital tools and new ways of working, we can simplify daily operations at the hospital and provide modern, accessible, and efficient care of the highest quality.
About the Unit
The Self-Harm Unit at Östra Hospital is tasked with providing nationally specialized care for patients with difficult-to-treat self-harming behavior. Patients come to the unit from across the country through planned admissions via referral. All care is based on voluntary participation and willingness to change.
On the ward, patients are offered psychotherapeutic treatment adapted to individual needs and cognitive functioning. Treatment periods last between 18-24 weeks, with patients having access to a multidisciplinary team consisting of physicians, nurses, psychologists, caregivers, treatment assistants, social workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and dietitians. Service user participation in various forms is an integrated part of the ward's work, including peer support.
The care process is guided by Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and is set within an environmental therapeutic context. In addition to inpatient treatment, we also conduct outpatient interventions such as consultation for treatment providers, education, and supervision. The unit conducts research related to this patient group and works with continuous service development in accordance with our mandate.
We also have beds for user-directed admission. This care model allows patients who are in contact with psychiatric outpatient services to voluntarily admit themselves for shorter stays. They sign a contract with the outpatient clinic and ward and can be admitted without a physician assessment and without going through psychiatric emergency services.
Starting in November, during periods of high occupancy at the Affective Disorders Clinic's wards, we will temporarily provide support by accepting patients in need of traditional psychiatric inpatient care when beds are unavailable.
What Do We Offer?
You will be offered mentoring alongside experienced colleagues, appropriate training for the role, as well as continued professional development and supervision. The ward is the first of its kind in Sweden, which means there are great opportunities to engage in further developing the ward's mandate as well as in ongoing research projects.
We offer you employment security, and it is important to us that you enjoy your job and get along well with your colleagues. We want you to feel good, and we offer activities that promote well-being in connection with work and parental benefit supplements.
Job Responsibilities
Using DBT and the DBT Skills System as your method, you work in a team with colleagues to coach, teach, and support the generalization of skills. You work closely with patients and follow them throughout their treatment by planning, organizing, and implementing various treatment activities together with patients both on and off the ward.
In addition to contributing to patients' psychotherapeutic treatment, you are also responsible for the day-to-day operations associated with a 24-hour care ward as well as somatic care tasks such as monitoring, blood tests, and wound dressing changes. We are now seeking caregivers for two positions on day, evening, and weekend shifts with on-call duty four out of ten weekends.
About You
We are looking for someone who is a trained caregiver or treatment assistant with experience in inpatient care.
We welcome your application!
Meet some of our employees – Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Due to holiday closures, no information about the position will be available before August 3rd.
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 across Västra Götaland every day.
You contribute to safe and equitable healthcare as well as to a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life.
We are in the midst of digital transformation, and you get to help shape the future ways of working to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations.
As a permanent employee, you will be registered for emergency placement as part of our shared responsibility to ensure that critical societal functions continue to operate during crises.
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Application
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We kindly but firmly decline direct contact from staffing, recruitment, and employment agencies and other external parties and sellers of additional job postings. Västra Götaland Region has existing procurement agreements.Together we are developing Sahlgrenska University Hospital for a sustainable future. We are transforming healthcare with the goal of becoming Europe's leading university hospital by 2032. Working alongside patients, we strive for quality, accessibility, patient safety, research, education, and innovation – as part of an integrated healthcare system in the Västra Götaland Region. Our vision and goals are aimed at delivering the highest quality care, where the patient is always the focus. We provide healthcare services locally and regionally, as well as highly specialized care to patients…