County Hospital in South-Sweden
Position
Specialist doctor
Requirements for education
Specialist exam in Pathological Anatomy (called Clinical Pathology in Sweden) from within EU or both general medical diploma and specialist exam acquired in any EU-country plus minimum three years of experience in the specialty in that country.
Required competences and skills
Requirements are a few years of experience working in clinical pathology/cytology. As a pathologist with us, you will have a varied everyday life with diagnostics of tissue samples, supervision of doctors in specialist training, autopsies and some excision. You will be an important part of our educational environment, as we are a university healthcare unit connected to Linköping University and regularly receive medical students.
We are in the middle of an exciting digital transformation – with new scanners, image management systems and the ambition to integrate AI support to improve diagnostics. We are also investing in developing our methods in molecular pathology.
Personal qualities required for the position
We value participation, cooperation and a shared responsibility for the development of the business. Initiative, commitment and a desire to improve are encouraged here – whether it concerns method development, quality assurance or work environment work.
You will work in a team where decision-making is close and where your ideas are taken seriously.
We are looking for you who is secure in their professional role and take responsibility – both for their own work and for the success of the team. You are quality-conscious, structured and have a professional attitude towards both colleagues and customers.
We believe that you are a generous knowledge-sharer with a big heart for cooperation, and that you have good knowledge of the Swedish healthcare system (which you will be taught for).
On-call duty
We do not have on-call work. If necessary, you may have to work overtime.
Other requirements
IT-skills.
Planned date of employment
As soon as possible.
Description of the goal of activity
The goal of the operation is to give patients quick and reliable answers. Correct diagnostics in time.
Description of the clinic
The pathology laboratory is part of our county-wide laboratory medicine operations in the Region. We handle approximately 50,000 cases per year, of which approximately 28,000 are histological samples – a broad and stimulating activity where you get to work with both breadth and cutting edge.
Our medical team consists of 10 specialist doctors and 6 ST doctors, and we are actively working to streamline flows and create sustainable working methods through task-shifting and digital diagnostics. With us, you work closely with other professional groups such as BMA, cytodiagnosticians, autopsy technicians and care administrators.
You will receive an individualized introduction and great opportunities for research, development projects and method development. We are in the starting blocks to implement molecular pathology methods and are now modernizing our digital systems for the diagnostics of the future – including AI support.
The County Hospital
It is a large emergency hospital with approximately 3,300 employees and space for 450-500 patients. It serves as the county hospital for the entire County/ Region and has a primary catchment area of approximately 149,000 inhabitants for different municipalities, but is responsible for specific specialties for the entire county’s 356,000 inhabitants. The hospital includes a wide range of clinics, including an emergency clinic, a children’s clinic and a surgery centre.
New parts of the hospital have included extensive investments, for example in new operating rooms. The hospital has recently undergone an extensive expansion of approximately 34,000 square meters. This expansion included, among other things, a new care building with new care wards, a dialysis clinic and a new main entrance.
It has been named one of the country’s best hospitals by the newspaper Dagens Medicin on several occasions.
About the city
It is one of the largest cities in Sweden, located on the shores of a large lake in southern Sweden. The city is an important commercial, logistical and educational centre, often mentioned for its picturesque location and modern university.
Salary for staff with Swedish legitimation
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 92-94.000 SEK (around 8.500-8.600 EUR). A consultant may earn 100.000-110.000 SEK (even 9.100-10.000 EUR or more).
However, when you start, you will have the title of Assistant Doctor. The salary is slightly lower at the beginning, even though you are a specialist doctor in your home country. This is because you initially have an introduction and are not expected to carry specialist responsibilities. At first you go along, get to know the business, colleagues, system, work procedures, PM and more. During your introduction period of 6 months, you will study advanced Swedish (medical Swedish) 2 days a week via Folkhögskolan. This increases your chances for a good introduction to your new work within Swedish healthcare and a new workplace.
You will be employed as an assistant doctor with a salary of 59.000 SEK (5.400 EUR) with a general fixed-term employment as a form of employment for the 6-months’ introductory period described above.
When Swedish licence to practice and proof of specialist competence are issued by the National Board of Health (Socialstyrelsen) and the introduction is complete, the employment becomes permanent and a new salary setting takes place as specialist doctor according to agreement. For a specialist whose Swedish is good enough an individual salary setting will be done.
Some examples of benefits which are provided by the Region
- Opportunity to conduct or participate in clinical patient-centered research.
Futurum, the region’s academy for health and care, is tasked with stimulating and financing clinical research and postgraduate education.
- Compensation for extracurricular studies that are connected to the activity.
In some cases, you can receive compensation for course fees, course literature, travel and accommodation. The compensation is at most 75 percent of the costs and a maximum of 4,000 SEK per year.
- If you have a monthly salary and are employed for more than three months, you are entitled to paid holiday leave already during your first year of employment. In this case, the number of holiday days depends on both your age and when in the year you were employed. The number of holiday days per full year is between 25 and 32, depending on age.
You also have the option of exchanging part of your salary for an extra week of holiday.
- Health allowance of SEK 2.200 per year.
- Right to free open healthcare in primary care and specialist healthcare.
- Through benefits portal, we offer our employees attractive discounts and payment via payroll deduction. For example, you get discounts on travel, experiences and wellness.
- If you are sick for longer than 14 days, you are also entitled to extra compensation from the Region’s council, in addition to compensation from the social security fund.
- To make you feel extra secure if something happens, all employees in the Region are covered by contract insurance. This is a benefit that supplements the compensation you can receive from the social security fund.
Services offered by the employer and Mediflexible
- During the personal visit which is part of the interview process, the cost of travel, accommodation and meals are 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 – to B2 level for spouses and school-age children, to C1 level for spouses who have jobs with licence requirement
- Help with the application for Swedish license to practice, supervision of the process
- free Swedish legal and social training which consists of 40 lessons
- Integration assistance (assistance in registering at tax authority, opening bank account, etc.)
- Assistance in job-searching for the spouse
- Assistance in finding school/kindergarten for the children
- Assistance in the organization of moving and in apartment-seeking
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
- Cover letter
- 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
- Proof of language knowledge (if you have such)
If you are interested, please send your detailed professional CV and other necessary documents to info@mediflexible.com before 8. April.