Leg. Physiotherapist for the Health Care Department
Kiruna, Sverige
Type of Employment Part-time
Job position Physiotherapist
Work model On location
Application due date 1 December 2024
Are you the one?
For a vibrant Kiruna. One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are Kiruna, we say. We are the caregiver who holds old mom's hand and the teacher who makes little brother read his first words. We are the childminder who makes someone grow every day and the social worker who does what it takes to change lives. We are the personal assistant who gives freedom and the librarian who brings literature close. We are the home support workers who drive to villages in blizzards like the midnight sun to be there. We are hundreds of skills, thousands of people and generations of experience who together safeguard, nurture, inspire, teach, save lives, innovate, move cities, stand up for each other and care for people. With pride and care. From mountains to cities. Today and tomorrow for a living Kiruna. There is something beautiful in that. Do you also want to work for life, people and the future in Kiruna municipality? Do you want to create value and make a real difference for what is important? The Social Administration's mission is to meet people's need for security. The administration must work to ensure that the municipality's residents receive social care in various forms and with a special responsibility to safeguard the needs and interests of vulnerable groups. We constantly strive for good quality that benefits the users of our services. WORK TASKS Your duties include investigating and assessing the need for physiotherapeutic interventions. You work to improve or maintain the individual's abilities and compensate for any reduced functional capacity. Your professional role includes prescribing and fitting various assistive devices. You will disseminate knowledge about rehabilitative methods and approaches, as well as supervising and training nursing staff in transfer techniques and the handling of assistive devices. Within the healthcare department, we work on quality and development work in various areas. Your work areas will be in home care / special housing / LSS and psychiatry within Kiruna municipality. QUALIFICATIONS We are looking for you who are a licensed physiotherapist / physiotherapist. As a person, you are positive and confident in yourself. You have a good ability to see the big picture and are good at structuring and organizing your work independently in an effective way. You enjoy working in a team and value good cooperation between other professional categories in order to contribute to and develop the business forward. You have good interpersonal skills and maintain a professional and respectful approach when dealing with users and staff. You have good digital skills and documentation skills. Previous experience in municipal health care is an advantage, but not a requirement. We attach great importance to personal suitability. Driving license is a requirement. OTHER Kiruna municipality offers fantastic benefits, including free health care at agreed training facilities, flexitime agreements, and the opportunity to rent cottages and apartments in Riksgränsen and Vassijaure. To work with us, you must share Kiruna municipality's common values where respect, responsibility and collaboration are the key words. We offer a pleasant working environment and stimulating work tasks and that you as an employee get a good balance between work and leisure. We have many different benefits such as free health care where you as an employee can train free of charge at various training facilities, we have cabins in the mountains that you can rent, we offer the opportunity to exchange salary for days off. We strive for gender balance and see diversity as a strength, we welcome employees with different backgrounds and work to ensure that our workplaces are accessible to everyone. Kiruna municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an opportunity. It is an advantage if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sami and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna municipality is an administrative area for these languages. Kiruna municipality has made media choices for this recruitment and therefore refrains from contacting ad sellers or other sellers of recruitment services.