Medicine and Geriatrics Clinic
Hospital in South-Sweden
Job description
As a neurologist by our place, you will work with a diverse patient group and provide specialist care for neurological conditions, such as stroke, epilepsy, migraine, and various neuromuscular diseases. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team where collaboration and quality are in focus.
Requirements for education
- Specialist in Neurology.
- General medical diploma and specialist exam from within EU or acquired in any EU-country plus minimum three years of experience in the specialty in that country.
Required experience
Wide competence in Neurology.
Required competences and skills
As a person, you are secure and stable with a good ability to distinguish between the personal and the professional. You are confident in your knowledge and skills, dare to make your own decisions and take responsibility for your work tasks. As the work involves a lot of collaboration with other colleagues, we would like to see that you find it easy to work well with other people.
Great importance is placed on personal suitability.
Personal qualities required for the position
You are secure, stable and have a high degree of professionalism. You are independent and used to working in a structured team. You work well with other colleagues and are responsive and communicative. You make correct trade-offs and priorities. You are used to weighing up complex information and different types of considerations. You continuously maintain your specialist knowledge and are a knowledge resource for others.
On-call duty
We offer you a stimulating and varied work experience at the smaller hospital where all expertise is close at hand. You will have the opportunity to develop within your specialist area and the opportunity to influence the development and improvement of healthcare.
Here you will receive favourable working hours that involve working Monday-Friday between 08:00-16:30. Usual on-call duty is included in the position but not during the first period of employment due to introduction and language training. On-call work is then guided by expertise and experience.
Other requirements
A specialist doctor supervises younger colleagues and this is a natural part of the job. The position may involve travel in the form of training/conferences.
We would like the doctor to have a driver’s license.
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 90-95.000 SEK (around 8.000-8.500 EUR). A consultant may earn above 100.000 SEK (even 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 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.
Planned date of employment
By agreement, after completed language studies but as soon as possible.
Description of the goal of activity
The Medicine and Geriatrics Clinic receives patients who need Emergency or planned Internal Medicine healthcare.
Description of the clinic and it’s activity
The Medicine and Geriatrics Clinic is the largest clinic at the hospital with many activities under one roof. We have various inpatient care units with different specializations in specialties such as Stroke, GAVA (Geriatric Acute Care Unit), Endocrinology, Neurology, Pulmonology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Hematology and Cardiology. The premises are well-planned and state-of-the-art and we work with the patient in focus. Here you work together with both experienced colleagues and new employees, all with great commitment. The Medicine and Geriatrics Clinic has a dialysis unit, medicine reception and geriatric reception. We have around 230 employees and together we want to achieve commitment and participation. We want our employees to be able to develop in a good way. We strive to provide equal and good care and high accessibility for the patient.
Värnamo hospital
The hospital is one of three hospitals in the county. Around 85,000 people live in the hospital’s catchment area. It consists of four municipalities.
Here, scheduled and emergency specialist care is conducted around the clock, all days of the year. We see the employee’s competence as a key to our success and the residents’ health. The county council works for a good life in an attractive region. Our main assignments are public health, health care and dental care, as well as regional development and growth. We are the county’s largest employer with 11,000 employees in hundreds of professions.
The hospital has approximately 230 care places, which means that it is just the right size to offer a pleasant and collaborative environment and also a wide range of activities.
We have several newly renovated care units, and we have a modern dialysis unit and an equally modern ambulance entrance. The operation and intensive care clinic’s premises are also new.
The hospital is used to receiving doctors with foreign education and we have many good examples of where families have found what they are looking for when they have been employed by us. We hope you will want to come to us and become part of our fantastic workplace!
About the city
To live here is to experience small-town life up-close. Everyday life is simple here! Entrepreneurship is great in the town. New business ideas, starting your own business, culture and collaboration are hallmarks.
We are proud to announce that in 2023 we have been designated as both Sweden’s Outdoor Municipality and Sweden’s Culture Municipality.
It is a very nice medium-sized town with approx. 34,000 inhabitants.
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
- Assistance during 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 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 Swedish 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 the 8th of April.