Responsibilities
As a nurse in the municipality, you may have patients aged 18 and over who are in need of primary health care at home. You can work in home health care or in special housing (we have housing for the elderly, for people with disabilities and in social psychiatry). Here, you will often build long-lasting and good relationships over time and get to know the patients.
In the majority of Skellefteå municipality's recruitments, you need to have basic knowledge and understanding of the Swedish language.
If you have a residence permit you can learn Swedish in SFI (Svenska för invandrare - Swedish for Immigrants)
You work independently with a lot of freedom and responsibility and are part of a team together with care staff, occupational therapists and physiotherapists.
Essentially, your work involves meeting with patients independently to assess, plan, implement and monitor health care interventions. You supervise staff in nursing and instruct and guide patients and relatives. You also work closely with doctors at health centers.
Most nurses in the municipality have the role of permanent care contact for a number of individuals. In addition, you work as a nurse on duty. This ensures a wide variety of work tasks. One day it's about coordinating care with the patient and their family, the next day it's about performing tasks as a duty nurse. And all based on the planning you do in the team and how you choose to organize your work.
You are also involved in the development of the profession and the business, including the development of our digital working methods.
In our business, sustainable working hours are important. We take care to make healthy schedules adapted to the business. You are offered individual introduction, further training and development opportunities.
You must have a nursing degree and be registered as a nurse to work as a nurse in Sweden.
Swedish Counsil for Higher Education External link, opens in new window. can make an assessment of a foreign higher education degree and its equivalent in Sweden.
Good development opportunities
Competence development plan
The health care unit has its own competence development plan for nurses. The starting point is that everyone should get the skills development they need. Continuing education is often provided in the municipality's unique learning environment Lärcentra External link..
Further education to a specialist nurse
If you work as a nurse and want to develop yourself further and take greater responsibility in the workplace, you have the opportunity to further education to become a specialist nurse specializing in district nursing, care of the elderly or psychiatric care.