About this role
Do you want to contribute and do something meaningful? While also developing yourself and making many connections? Then our summer positions are something for you.
With the patient in focus, we provide effective care with knowledge, quality, and compassion. With your help, both we and the patients will improve – welcome to Region Värmland!
Your workplace
The Rehabilitation Specialist Care at the Central Hospital in Karlstad is a unit within the health and rehabilitation area. Approximately 80 employees work in occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and music and art therapy. The unit also employs rehabilitation assistants.
The Rehabilitation Specialist Care works with rehabilitation across several different clinics at the Central Hospital in Karlstad, including neurology, geriatrics, oncology, infection, pediatrics, women's health, surgery, medicine, orthopedics, intensive care, and more, in both outpatient and inpatient care.
We are now seeking physiotherapy and occupational therapy students who want to work with us over the summer and thereby gain a great start in their future careers as physiotherapists/occupational therapists. We offer you an educational summer!
Your responsibilities
The work will involve varied tasks to support the physiotherapists and occupational therapists and ensure that operations run smoothly during the summer. You will work to help our patients achieve or maintain the best possible functional ability, greater independence, and good health. In inpatient care, you will meet patients of all ages, with various types of issues and at different stages of life. You will work closely with our licensed staff.
Your skills and competencies
We are looking for you who are studying to become a physiotherapist or occupational therapist and are interested in working in inpatient care. We consider it an advantage if you have completed up to semester 4. Previous experience in healthcare is meritorious. We want you to be engaged and have good collaboration skills. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.
Selection will be ongoing, so we welcome your application today!
About Region Värmland
We exist to ensure that everyone living here feels good and that our region is attractive and competitive. We make a difference in healthcare, dental care, public transport, regional development, and culture and education. We meet people in life's greatest moments and in all those everyday moments in between. Our vision is world-class quality of life. Read more about what it’s like to work with us at https://regionvarmland.se/regionvarmland/jobb-utbildning--forskning/jobba-med-oss/vara-formaner, and follow us on social media.
Do you also want to work for everyone in Värmland? We welcome your application.
Other
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