Swedish Healthcare and Social Services

Swedish healthcare and social services are in a changing and eventful time. The National Board of Health and Welfare plays a central role in supporting the development towards good care, support, and dental care through analysis. Do you want to work to make the complex understandable?

About the Position

We are now looking for two temporary statisticians (one for 1 year and one for 6 months) with current competence in statistics who want to work with analytical and statistical assignments in healthcare, dental care, and social services. As a statistician, you will independently act as an internal consultant on issues related to statistics, statistical programming, and data processing.

Your assignment includes working with statistical analyses and assessing the results. You will also support the implementation and quality review of data processing and statistical analyses. The position is located in the unit for epidemiology and quantitative analyses (EPIK), which conducts descriptive analyses, in-depth analyses, and epidemiological studies of prioritized areas. We work, among other things, with quantitative registry analyses and indicator-based evaluations. The unit also provides methodological support to other departments and units and works to apply various types of statistical analysis methods within the agency's areas of operation.

About You

To thrive in this role, you need to be structured and have good collaboration skills, as well as the ability to take initiative and drive your work forward within the framework of the assignment. Sometimes the conditions for our projects change or shift direction, so you need to have a good ability to adapt and adjust to change.

We are looking for someone who has:

• a minimum of a bachelor's degree or equivalent with a focus on statistics
• current experience working as a statistician
• experience working as a statistician through all phases of a project (planning / data processing / analysis / reporting)
• proficiency in programming, preferably in SAS

It is also advantageous if you have:

• experience in project management and project work
• ability to create macros in SAS
• previous experience from a government agency
• experience ordering data/statistics from other agencies and/or external organizations
• experience with the agency's national registers
• experience from merging health data and social service registers

Good to Know

The employment is temporary (one for 1 year and one for 6 months). You will be based at the office on Västerbroplan in Stockholm. Your job title will be statistician, and your placement will be in the department for analysis, A/EPIK - Epidemiology and Quantitative Analyses.

When you apply, you will need to answer a number of selection questions related to the requirements in the advertisement. Your answers will be used as part of the selection process and may determine whether you proceed in the recruitment process. It is therefore important that you respond as thoroughly and clearly as possible. We do not use the personal letter in the selection process, so you only attach your CV.

If you have questions about the position, contact unit manager Anastasia Nyman at Anastasia.nyman@socialstyrelsen.se. For questions about the recruitment process, contact personnel specialist Klara Renberg at klara.renberg@socialstyrelsen.se. For questions from April 12-16, please contact rekrytering@socialstyrelsen.se. The union representative for SACO-S is Isabelle Ålander at isabelle.alander@socialstyrelsen.se. The union representative for ST/OFR is Anders Nordlund at anders.nordlund@socialstyrelsen.se. All can be reached at phone number 075-247 30 00.

Do you have a protected identity? Please contact the personnel specialist mentioned above.

The application deadline is April 16.