Family Medicine
Centrum Health Centre in Sundsvall
Region Västernorrland
Requirements for education
Specialist certificate in Family Medicine from within EU
OR
recognized speciality plus minimum 3 years’ experience as a specialist in any EU-country.
Required experience
Some experience as a specialist would be advantageous.
Place of work
Centrum Health Centre, Sundsvall
Planned date of employment
By agreement.
Healthcare in Region Västernorrland
The region’s vision is; life, health and sustainable development in Region Västernorrland. The region contributes to a good quality of life for the county’s residents through healthcare that is provided with high quality and is efficient, as well as efforts for growth, education, culture and research.
The county comprises seven municipalities. Primary care is the basis of healthcare and an important prerequisite for providing security to the county’s residents. Västernorrland County comprises the municipalities of Härnösand, Kramfors, Sollefteå, Sundsvall, Timrå, Ånge and Örnsköldsvik.
Primary care includes 31 healthcare canters (2024).
Hospitals in Sollefteå, Sundsvall and Örnsköldsvik.
Primary care’s mission is to offer the county’s residents good healthcare with high quality and on equal terms.
In Region Västernorrland there are three local healthcare areas; south, west and north where local collaboration takes place within/between the municipality, primary care and specialist care. Together we work to create a coherent care chain for the growing patient groups of chronic and multi-ill patients.
The health centres have a broad mission:
- General medical services
- Psychosocial services
- Child health care
- Maternal health care
- Medical foot care
- Rehabilitation/habilitation services
- Dietitian services
- On-call services
- Physician participation in municipal health care
The mission includes:
- first-line health care with planned and unplanned care in the form of investigation, diagnostics,
- treatment, counselling and follow-up
- treatment and follow-up of chronic diseases
- early health care interventions and rehabilitation
- health promotion and disease prevention interventions
- immediate assessment and treatment of medical conditions that require acute medical
- care and that do not require hospital care
About Centrum Health Centre
The health centre is in the middle of Sundsvall and currently has approximately 13,500 listed patients of all ages and from all parts of society. Your future colleagues consist of family and training doctors, district and general nurses, assistant nurses, medical secretaries, social workers, psychologists and dieticians. Centrum Health Centre also houses the region’s training health centre for foreign doctors who do practical work before obtaining their license. We also have primary care on-call on our premises, which we staff with doctors and nurses on weekdays and holidays in common with other health and care centres in the area.
Duties
As a family doctor, you are responsible for your own list of patients that you care for at all stages of life. We are looking for you who want to help shape the future of care. We offer you the opportunity to help influence your own tasks and would love for you to participate in our exciting development journey where community care and digital visits are just around the corner. We hope you enjoy supervising and spreading knowledge to the colleagues around you!
To succeed in the role, we believe that you have these personal qualities:
- Personal maturity
- Ability to collaborate
- Flexible
Communicative.
The positions are permanent with start by agreement.
By agreement.
Generally, a specialist having licence to practice in Sweden, with proper skills in Swedish and with ability for being able to work independently (strong C1-level) earns 90-95.000 SEK (around 8.000-8.500 EUR). A consultant may earn above 100.000 SEK (even 9.000 EUR or more).
However, during the introductory period and until you will not be able to work independently and will not have solid language skills, the salary temporarily will be lower.
About the city
https://visitsweden.com/where-to-go/northern-sweden/medelpad/sundsvall/
https://destinationsundsvall.se/english/destination
Services offered by the employer and Mediflexible
- During the personal visit which is part of the interview process, the cost of travel and accommodation is financed by Mediflexible
- 6-7 months long, free Swedish course, financial support during the course (the amount is topic of negotiation)
- Free language education for family members (spouses and school-aged children) on basic level, or to C1 level for spouses who are also healthcare staff
- Assistance in the application for Swedish license to practice, supervision of the process
- 40 hours long free Swedish legal and social training
- Integration assistance (assistance in registering at tax authority, opening bank account, etc.)
- Assistance in finding school/kindergarten for the children
- Assistance in the organization of moving and in apartment-seeking
Extra benefits
In this region, one can receive further benefits, too. These are means-tested benefits, so it is individually judged which benefit can be received (none, one of them or both) for an individual.
- In connection with moving from another location, a reasonable relocation allowance can be issued. The region pays a moving company after having received at least 2-3 different quotes from different moving companies from which the region will choose the one it will pay.
- Start-up grants also can be issued up to SEK 40,000 (excluding social security contributions). The grant is paid out in four instalments during a two-years’ period. A repayment obligation will be regulated in a contract, in the event that the employment period set in the Guarantee of Employment will not be completed.
Documents required for application:
- Professional English CV in which your experience (number of completed examinations/surgeries, with differentiation between pre-and post-specialization experience) are detailed
- scanned version of license to practice in home country with English translation (no official needed)
- scanned version of medical and specialist certificates with English translation (no official needed)
- two English-speaking reference persons who are reachable on phone
If you are interested, please send your detailed professional CV and other necessary documents as soon as possible to info@mediflexible.com.