Deputy Head of Defense Health

You can now apply for the position of Deputy Head of Defense Health with us at the Naval Base. The goal of Defense Health is to promote a good development that ensures health and safety for the employee and the organization. You will be part of a multi-professional team that supports a complex organization at the individual, group, and organizational levels.

About the Unit

Defense Health Karlskrona is an internal occupational health service where we provide occupational health care as well as health and medical care tailored for all employees of the garrison, as well as recruits and cadets. Our perspective is promotional, preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative. Examples of assignments include supporting units in their systematic work environment efforts, rehabilitation initiatives, assessments, training assignments, medical checks in working life, and medical preparedness. Our team of 23 employees consists of physiotherapists/ergonomists, psychologists, occupational health nurses, nurses, company doctors, work environment engineers, and medical secretaries.

Main Responsibilities

As the deputy head at Defense Health, you will, together with the unit manager, be responsible for personnel, work environment, and financial work, support and develop preventive work, coordinate and prioritize Defense Health's support to the garrison. You will develop collaborations and create good relationships and contact points within the garrison. In the role of deputy head at Defense Health, you will also be the medical operations manager, which means ensuring that operational routines as well as laws and regulations governing the operations are applied. You will keep up with developments in defense medicine and in the field of occupational health by participating in network meetings, training, and conferences.

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

• Licensed nurse with further education in occupational and environmental medicine (Occupational Health Nurse)
• Experience leading interdisciplinary teams
• Good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish and English
• Driver's license minimum B (manual)
• Five years of experience within the Armed Forces with a good understanding of the operations and knowledge of our working methods

Personal Attributes

You are interested in work environment efforts and preventive health care. You have your own drive, are customer-oriented, and enjoy working together with other professional categories to support the employer in health-promoting work. The work is versatile and requires you to be flexible, innovative, pedagogical, and have good collaboration skills. It is important that you have a desire and drive to further develop yourself and your operations and have the ability to implement new directives and plans. You are a responsive person who can motivate and inspire your employees through a developing leadership towards set goals. You are a good representative of the Armed Forces and a good role model both as a person and a leader. Your leadership is permeated by the Armed Forces' core values. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

MERITORIOUS

• Experience and knowledge of occupational health care, health-promoting work environment efforts, work environment issues
• Experience in recruitment
• Experience in driving development work and projects
• Role as medical operations manager in previous contexts

For the authority's mission to be successful, all employees are expected to act according to the existing core values. The Armed Forces' core values uphold the equal value of all people, justice and equality, and promote democracy and human rights (read more at www.forsvarsmakten.se).

Other

Employment type: Permanent. The Armed Forces applies a six-month probationary period for those not employed by the authority.
Employment rate: Full-time.
Work location: Karlskrona.
The position is civilian.
Business travel may occur within the framework of the tasks.
Start date according to agreement.

Information about the Position

Mikael Holmström can be reached via the switchboard at 010-82 85 000.

Information about the Recruitment Process

Hanna Stjernlöf can be reached via the switchboard at 010-82 85 000.

Union Representatives

Officers' Union, Johnas Mård.
Defense Union, Jimmy Svensson.
SACO, Mikael Olsson.
All of the above can be reached via the switchboard: 010-82 85 000.
SEKO, Jan-Anders Nilsson can be reached via the switchboard: 0457–471 000.

Application

Welcome with your application by 2025-12-05. Your application should include a CV and a cover letter where you motivate why you are suitable for this position and respond to the specified selection questions.

Applications for this position will only be accepted via the Armed Forces' website.

Information about the Armed Forces and the Recruiting Unit:

The Naval Base's overarching task is to support the naval units with logistics such as transport, basing, surveillance, and medical care, both at home and abroad. The Naval Base is headquartered in Karlskrona but operates where needed, for example in Berga/Muskö, south of Stockholm, and in Gothenburg. Other major tasks for the Naval Base include monitoring Sweden's 2700 km long coastline with territorial waters.

Every day and every hour, our employees make contributions that affect other people's lives, both in large and small ways, and both at home and around the world.

In the Armed Forces, there is a strong value foundation based on openness, results, and responsibility. Professional development and personal health are valued and encouraged. There are good conditions for internal career mobility, wellness, and a good balance between work and private life.

Employment with us means placement in a security class. Usually, Swedish citizenship is required.
Security clearance with background check will be conducted before employment according to Chapter 3 of the Security Protection Act. Employment includes an obligation to be placed in a war position. The implications of this vary depending on the type of position.

To the application for employment, a CV and a personal letter must be attached. If you proceed in the employment process, certified copies of grades and certificates must always be presented.

Calls from external recruitment companies and sellers are not welcome.