About this role
Make a Difference. Every Day.
Are you looking for a workplace where your skills are valued and teamwork is an important part of daily work? Then you should apply to our operating department in Ängelholm! We look forward to welcoming two operating room nurses to our exciting and developing organization.
Located in beautiful nature with sea and forest, near the major cities of the Öresund region, the Operating Department in Ängelholm belongs to the Department of Anesthesia, Surgery, and Intensive Care at Helsingborg Hospital. Currently, we primarily conduct planned day surgery. The department consists of operating, anesthesia, sterile, day surgery, and recovery units. We perform specialized planned care in orthopedics, surgery, gynecology, urology, and ear, nose, and throat services for both adults and children during daytime hours, Monday through Friday. We are responsible for the entire pre-, peri-, and post-operative flow.
The Recovery Ward has twelve monitoring beds for elective and inpatient surgery. The Sterile Processing Unit serves both internal and external customers. We have approximately 90 employees, with a team of nurses, operating room nurses, anesthesia nurses, nursing assistants, sterile technicians, doctors, and unit managers. We continuously strive for excellent teamwork and cooperation between our specialties, as we consider this one of the keys to providing good patient care. We value innovation and care for our department, looking out for each other. We work to ensure high patient safety and a good work environment, which is our highest priority.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
We now welcome you who are seeking a varied and stimulating job where you will play a significant role in collaboration with your colleagues in the operating team!
As an operating room nurse, you will work with pre- and peri-operative care. Together with your colleagues, you will work to provide the patient with the best possible care. With warmth, security, and competence, you will strive to make the patient feel well cared for before and during the operation. As an operating room nurse, you will assist in all types of surgeries and participate in preparation and follow-up work, such as instrument setup and handling used instruments. In your daily work, you will also manage a significant amount of medical-technical equipment.
Here, you will schedule your work shifts according to an activity-adapted preference schedule. The work involves day shift service.
The introduction will be individually adapted based on your previous experience. The department offers four study days per year and annual CPR training.
QUALIFICATIONS
We welcome those who are a licensed nurse with a specialist qualification in operating room nursing and authorized to practice within Swedish healthcare. Swedish language skills at least equivalent to level C1 according to the Council of Europe's scale are required. Previous experience working in an operating department with a mixed portfolio of elective and emergency services is meritorious. We also prefer candidates with good knowledge of the journal systems Orbit and Melior.
We are seeking someone who wants a job characterized by excitement and variation while being able to maintain calm and prioritize tasks and take responsibility for providing the best patient care. As a person, you are confident, flexible, and meticulous. It is important that you have a willingness to take responsibility and readily provide your own initiatives. You have a desire to develop and learn new things. You enjoy working in teams and like to contribute to a joyful work environment, cooperation, and good atmosphere. We hope that being a good ambassador for our values – welcoming, driven, caring, and respectful – is as natural for you as it is for us. Since we are keen to find the right person for the position, we place great importance on personal suitability.
Have we piqued your curiosity, and are you interested in joining our team at the Operating Department in Ängelholm? We can offer a stimulating job in an organization with high competence and great development opportunities.
In this recruitment, continuous selection is applied. Warmly welcome to submit your application today; we look forward to getting to know you!
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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