Licensed Occupational Therapist - Short-Term Care Unit

Description:

Do you want to work as an Occupational Therapist with responsibility for the short-term care unit in close collaboration with a Physical Therapist colleague? We offer rewarding work with many personal interactions and varied workdays! Here you will meet different tasks and patient groups who have been approved for short-term stays. From rehabilitation of stroke patients to helping patients independently manage their daily lives and enabling appropriate housing that promotes independence in everyday activities. We make a difference, every day! Karlshamns kommun can offer you a developing role as an Occupational Therapist in a well-functioning work team. We have high engagement and a great sense of community in our work, all in a learning and supportive environment. We want to be part of the transformation required for good and accessible care, and demographics show increased care needs. For some time now, we have changed our working methods and organization, based on the goal of a sustainable work environment and patient safety over time. We have organized ourselves into functional assignments. In addition to responsibility for short-term stays, we have a shared care queue, a discharge team responsible for safe and secure discharge from the hospital, a telephone reception, and a rehabilitation quality service. The assignment includes: In close collaboration with the responsible Physical Therapist and other professionals in the team, work based on set goals for short-term stays, including with nurses, unit manager, care staff, dementia nurses, and benefits administrators. Municipal rehabilitation; assessments, prescriptions, and testing based on the prescription process. Patients have significant participation in the goals of our interventions. Provide leadership within your profession, both in patient contact and through the care staff you lead, provide support and motivation through your knowledge. Responsibility to work together with other professionals to create conditions for a safe discharge to regular housing from short-term care. Collaborate externally and internally with various professionals to maintain good quality. Requirements for the position: Licensed Occupational Therapist B-class driver's license for manual transmission Merits for the position: Experience in the profession or from municipal rehabilitation Knowledge of municipal operations and politically governed organizations Characteristics: As a person, you are driven, attentive, goal-oriented, and comfortable with significant responsibility. You are confident working independently and at the same time see the importance of good collaboration with patient focus. The work requires the ability to collaborate, organize, structure, and work solution-oriented with a holistic perspective. You have good pedagogical skills in interactions with other people and in teaching, and you see the value of good teamwork between professions. Within the scope of the employment, you contribute to our development and improvement work. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability. Position information: 1 position, permanent full-time Flexible hours with daytime service Start date as soon as possible after agreement Application deadline 2026-07-05 Other: According to the Act (2026:43) on criminal record checks for work in homes for elderly persons or adults with disabilities, anyone offered this position must provide an extract from the criminal record register. You order your criminal record extract from the police website; the extract you should request is the one for work with elderly or adults with disabilities. As an employer, we need to verify the right to work in Sweden. Therefore, you must show an identity document at a possible interview that proves citizenship: passport or national ID card are examples of such documents. We offer staff club, wellness breaks, and professional development within your field of work. For more information about the position, contact: Unit Manager Katarina Nilsson, 0454 - 810 70, [email protected] Sweden's Occupational Therapists Ulrica Lindgren, 0454 -56 39 00 [email protected] Physical Therapists Maria Thomasson, 0454 – 56 39 00 [email protected] Please visit https://www.karlshamn.se/rekrytering. There you will find important information about what applies to you if you have protected personal data, how we verify the right to work in Sweden, when you need to and how you order an extract from the criminal record register, and military placement upon employment. To ensure quality in the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask that you apply via the button in the job announcement. An application to Karlshamns kommun is a public document. We politely but firmly decline direct contact from staffing and recruitment companies and sellers of additional job announcements.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Karlshamn

Address

Rådhuset

GPS

56.1889087, 14.8450373copyopen in

Email

[email protected]

Phone

0454 - 810 70

Views

8

Published

12. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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