Occupational Therapist, Municipal Primary Care, Elderly Care

Description:

All of Öland attracts more and more people every year. Unique environments, high quality of life, and proximity to both city and sea make Öland an attractive place to visit and live. Southern Öland is also characterized by strong forward momentum, engagement, and our fantastic UNESCO World Heritage site. Mörbylånga Municipality is located in the southern part of Öland and consists of approximately 1200 engaged and competent employees driven by making a difference in our society. We are now looking for more employees who want to contribute to Öland continuing to be a fantastic place to live, work, and visit. 1 position(s). DUTIES As an occupational therapist, you work with the whole person and their physical and cognitive abilities. You also work with interventions to strengthen the person's independence and increase activity and participation in daily life. The occupational therapist's responsibilities include assessments of patients' activity and functional capacity, training interventions in the home, prescription and fitting of assistive devices, environmental assessment, and issuing certificates for housing adaptations. You also work in health promotion and prevention to increase the opportunity for an active life with good quality of life. You work closely with a physiotherapist and rehabilitation assistant. The work includes informing, instructing, and guiding patients, care staff, and relatives. Occupational therapists and physiotherapists work closely with other professions such as home care staff, residential care staff, nurses, and social welfare administrators in their geographic team. As an occupational therapist, you have many contacts with patients, staff, and relatives, which requires you to have good communication skills, be attentive, and have an easy time creating and maintaining good relationships. Person-centeredness and participation are important guiding principles for us on the journey toward Close Care. You will be important in our continued work to develop municipal primary care together with colleagues and your supervisor. The position includes responsibility for patients both in special accommodations and in regular housing. As an employee in the rehabilitation unit, you work daytime hours, Monday through Friday, and we have flexible working hour agreements. You work from a centrally located office in Färjestaden. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who are a licensed occupational therapist and want to work with rehabilitation in the patient's home environment. We welcome both applicants with long experience and recent graduates. As a new employee with us, you will have a mentor and the work group helps and supports each other. We place great emphasis on personal suitability and that you are interested in municipal rehabilitation and the people we meet in our work. You are curious, enjoy problem-solving, and are comfortable working both flexibly with people from different professional backgrounds and independently. You have good interpersonal skills and an ability to convey knowledge in a pedagogical way based on where the individual is at. Driver's license (Category B) is required. In order to be eligible for employment within social care in Mörbylånga Municipality, the employer will ask the applicant to provide an extract from the police criminal record register for HVB homes. Do you want to get a picture of the position you are applying for? You are welcome to visit and spend half a day or a day with your colleagues to get to know us and the activities better! We look forward to your application and warmly welcome you to join the team in the rehabilitation unit! Salary form: Monthly salary. Employment type: Permanent employment. Duration: Permanent. Mörbylånga Municipality strives for a more balanced gender distribution in our staff groups. This is part of the municipality's overall equality work and is taken into consideration in the recruitment process. To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Mörbylånga Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally. We do not accept applications via email or in paper format. Warmly welcome with your application! In preparing the recruitment work, Mörbylånga Municipality has made decisions about recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact with media sales representatives, recruitment sites, and similar.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Mörbylånga

GPS

56.6743868, 16.2592442copyopen in

Email

[email protected]

Phone

010-35 474 31

Views

5

Published

29. 5. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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