Medical Secretary - Summer Temporary Position

The Hospitals in the West is an administration within the Västra Götaland Region and consists of four hospitals – Alingsås Hospital, Angered Local Hospital, Högsbo Local Hospital, and Kungälv Hospital. Approximately 3000 employees work with us every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare of the highest quality.

Welcome to the Secretariat in the Emergency Care Department

We have a vacant summer temporary position as a medical secretary within our department, with the possibility of extended hourly employment after the summer, which we would like to fill as soon as possible.

Scheduled full-time work during the summer temporary position is binding. Hourly employment before the summer for training, which may be extended after the summer.

The Emergency Secretariat in Alingsås is staffed with 4 medical secretaries and in Kungälv with 12 medical secretaries and one assistant, with an administrative unit manager responsible for all. The secretaries in Alingsås work both days, evenings, and weekends.

We are looking for someone who is:

• A medical secretary or perhaps on the way to becoming one this year.
• Responsible, stress-resistant, and flexible regarding work hours and tasks.
• A team player who, together with colleagues, takes joint responsibility for daily work.
• Cheerful and positive.
• A joy-spreader with a great sense of humor.

If you recognize yourself in this description, we would love to meet you and offer you among other things:

• An exciting and fun teamwork together with both administrative staff and healthcare personnel.
• Good compensation for inconvenient working hours (evenings and weekends).
• Varied working hours.
• Wellness allowance.
• Varied tasks.
• Friendly and helpful colleagues.
• A mentor during and after your shadowing.

Your tasks mainly include medical documentation in Melior, printing letters, certificates, referrals, and other correspondence. Diagnosis and procedure registration in ELVIS, patient registration, ambulance reception, real-time documentation on alarms, as well as many other stimulating administrative tasks. We expect that new stimulating tasks will gradually land on the medical secretaries' desks as speech recognition becomes properly established.

Qualifications

• Two-year YH education, or equivalent higher education to become a medical secretary, or ongoing YH or other higher education studies to become a medical secretary is required.
• Training in diagnosis classification is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Melior, MedSpeech, and ELVIS.
• Experience in emergency care is an advantage.

Great importance is placed on personal suitability.

Employment Type

The position refers to a fixed-term temporary position from week 25-34 and hourly employment before according to agreement with possible extension after the summer.

Scope of Employment

Full-time week 25-34, before and after the summer according to needs.

Welcome with your application!

About the Västra Götaland Region

The Västra Götaland Region exists for the people of Västra Götaland. We ensure that there is good health and medical care for everyone. We work for sustainable development and growth, a good environment, improved public health, a rich cultural life, and good communication throughout Västra Götaland.

The Västra Götaland Region actively works to digitize more working methods. To be part of the digital transformation, you should have basic skills and be able to use digital tools and services. You can search for information, communicate, interact digitally, are risk-aware, and have the motivation to participate in development to learn new things.

The Västra Götaland Region places all permanent employees in a state of readiness.

If you want to know more about the Västra Götaland Region, you can visit our introduction for new employees at the link https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion). You can also read more in the presentation at https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate (https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate).

Application

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