Psychiatric home nurse, Maniitsoq Hospital, Greenland (25-147)

We are looking for a professionally skilled nurse with psychiatric experience and a desire to work independently for a position as a district psychiatric home nurse in Maniitsoq as of 1 August 2025. The position may be filled by a Health Assistant with several years of experience in psychiatry, documented medical competence, and post- or further education in psychiatry. We offer a professionally exciting, independent and challenging job as a psychiatric home nurse at Maniitsoq Hospital. The position is a permanent position, but can be applied for as a 3-6 month temporary position from 1 August 2025. The position is 40 hours a week, attendance between 8-16 on weekdays, within working hours you organize your own tasks. The psychiatric home care has approx. 60 citizens, all with a wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders and problems. You meet the patient, who gives attendance on an outpatient basis or during home visits in the city's housing units or private homes. If you do not speak the Greenlandic language, you have an interpreter available in your work. Tasks are primarily patient contact, self-supporting conversations, medication administration, follow-up on effects, side effects, EKG and blood test checks as well as delivery, special attention is paid to compliance, CRAM and patients with a sentence for treatment. In addition to psychoeducation, establishing meetings with a group of relatives, contact with a social worker with a view to implementing support for the good life, guidance, supervision and support for the staff on the ward during patients' admission or for the staff at the city's housing units, support persons - a task that must be given high priority. The patients highly value their psychiatric home nurse and regard this as an important part of their lives in terms of interview well-being and contact with other authorities. Psychiatric home nursing also assists patients in outpatient assessment and outpatient treatment for anxiety and depression, preventive procedures after serious suicidal episodes with contact via teams for outpatient treatment with psychologists and psychiatrists in Nuuk. There is good cooperation with the doctors and other staff at the hospital, as well as ongoing access to sparring and advice from the nationwide psychiatry in Nuuk via teams We offer: Professionally challenging work in an independent function in a small team Introduction Good access to collegial sparring and support. Good access to supervision and sparring with the nationwide psychiatry in Nuuk Opportunity for competence development via pool funds both in Greenland and outside Greenland once a year (to be agreed at the MUS interview) Opportunity to participate in an annual District Psychiatry seminar with others from all over Greenland in a similar position. We are looking for you where: is a nurse with experience in psychiatric nursing. We see it as an advantage to have psychiatric or therapeutic further or specialist training. You must possess the ability to develop and maintain professional relationships in patient work. Have good collaboration skills and be loyal to your work - your colleagues and management. About us: Maniitsoq Health Center is part of Health Region Qeqqa and has around 60 employees. The staff is distributed at the Health Center and in the three associated nursing stations in the district's settlements. The Health Center's bed ward has room for 18 hospitalized patients of all ages. The department covers all specialties here, including psychiatric patients. 5 nurses, 4 healthcare assistants and 4 healthcare assistants are employed on the bed ward. The nurses are on day and evening shift and after the evening shift are on call at night from their own home - with a doctor on call. Between 16.00 and 08.00 the bed ward functions as an emergency room - however, we do not expect you to have experience in the emergency room. The health center handles the primary areas of somatic and psychiatric home care, health care, pregnancy care, physiotherapy, venereal and contraception clinic, as well as 2-3 doctor consultations. In addition, the center has a laboratory, X-ray, nursing consultation, emergency room/reception, and pharmacy.We attaches great importance to the care and dealings with our patients containing values such as respect, orderliness, recognition and trust. The same values ​​characterize our interaction with each other at the health centre. A little about Maniitsoq: Maniitsoq is located on the west coast of Greenland, just south of the Arctic Circle between Nuuk in the south and Sisimiut in the north. The Maniitsoq area is very beautiful, surrounded by high and jagged mountains with glaciers that reach down to deep fjords. There are approx. 3100 population
gger in the district distributed by approx. 2,500 citizens in the city and the rest in the district's three settlements. The villages are visited several times a year, and transport takes place by boat. The town has most modern conveniences, grocery stores, domestic airport, weekly connections with the coastal ship and, in the summer, a fast boat route to Nuuk. Leisure activities in the summer include hiking in the mountains, fishing cabin tours and sailing among the humpback whales, which e.g. characterizes our district. In winter, the northern lights dance in the evening and night sky and during the day there is the possibility of alpine and cross-country skiing in one of Greenland's best ski areas. In addition, Maniitsoq has an evening school with many exciting activities and all year round there are opportunities for various sports activities in the town hall. August 2025 or by agreement Application deadline: 1 May 2025 Employment interviews are held continuously Contact Information about the position can be obtained from management and recruitment consultant Ann Birkekær Kjeldsen on e-mail: [email protected] or phone [phone removed] / +4554325064HousingHousing is assigned according to the regulations in force in the Greenlandic Health Service at all times.Salary and employment Salary and terms of employment, including the right to travel on and off the premises and relocation, in accordance with the agreement between Greenland's Self-Government and the negotiating organization in force at the time of entry.Nurse: employment is conditional on you being able to present a valid authorization - apply via [link removed] you are not a Nordic citizen, please note that employment is conditional on valid residence and work permit. A residence and work permit can only be applied for upon agreed employment. The Greenland Health Service – Breadth, challenge and professional pride The Greenland Health Service is part of the Department of Health, and is organized into 5 regions, 8 clinical areas, the Landstandplejen, the Greenland Patient Home and the health service's operational area. If you are looking for professional challenges, are curious and like to work widely, then a job in the Greenland Health Service is something you. You can read more about the Greenlandic Health Service at [link removed] Greenland there are many opportunities to live an active leisure life. In the summer, hiking, whale watching, hunting, fishing and sailing trips are obvious activities. Winter offers northern lights and plenty of skiing and if you live north of the Arctic Circle, you can go dog sledding. In the larger cities, there is plenty of cultural life with sports clubs, art exhibitions, concerts, cafes and restaurants. You can read more about the region the job is located in at [link removed]