Caregiver for the Forensic Psychiatric Examination Unit in Stockholm

Do you want a meaningful job where your skills contribute to strengthening legal security? The National Board of Forensic Medicine is the expert authority that provides the justice system with the basis for important decisions – from forensic medicine and forensic analyses to forensic psychiatric investigations. Whether you work in core operations or in a supportive role, you are part of something bigger: contributing to a legally secure society.

We are now looking for caregivers for the forensic psychiatric examination unit in Stockholm, located at Helix, near Huddinge Hospital.

Your mission

As a caregiver, you will work with care, security, documentation, and observation at a residence unit for detained individuals. You will also participate in improvement and development work, perform regular psychiatric/somatic care, and carry out other daily tasks at the unit.

Qualifications

• Caregiver education or other education/experience deemed equivalent by the employer.
• Experience in forensic psychiatric care or psychiatric care.

Meritorious

• Experience working within the correctional system.

Personal qualities and abilities

You have the ability to collaborate with others and meet them in a responsive manner; you need to be stable and able to handle stressful situations at times. You are also engaged and responsible in your work and act in accordance with decisions made and guidelines.

The work requires you to make correct assessments and priorities, and to plan and organize your work effectively. You have the ability to view issues from an ethical perspective and express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing. The tasks also require that you have good physical fitness.

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

Employment

The position is a permanent full-time employment that begins with a six-month probationary period, with start date according to agreement.

Placement at the forensic psychiatric examination unit in Stockholm.

The National Board of Forensic Medicine applies individual salary setting.

The work involves shift work, daytime, evenings, nights, and weekends.

RMV is part of the justice chain, and we place high demands on employees' judgment and safety awareness, as well as respect for law and order. As a representative of the National Board of Forensic Medicine, you follow the state value framework and contribute through your actions to legal security, legal certainty, and trust in the authority.

We conduct a background check by checking criminal records before employment. RMV applies a competency-based recruitment process where psychological tests, knowledge tests, or work samples may occur. Before hiring licensed healthcare professionals, checks are performed with the National Board of Health and Welfare and the Health and Social Care Inspectorate.

Upon employment at the National Board of Forensic Medicine, there is an obligation to be placed in wartime.

In this recruitment, we are looking for several employees.

Do you also want to contribute to a legally secure society? Welcome with your application by January 11, 2026. Grades and other documents should be brought to a possible interview.

The National Board of Forensic Medicine values a recruitment free from discrimination and strives to provide equal opportunities for all.

Want to know more?

For more information, please contact group manager Tobias Blomander at +46 10-483 45 66. You can also contact HR specialist Bonde Svedberg at +46 10 483 48 98. Our union representatives can be reached via our switchboard at +46 10-483 41 00. Union representative for Saco is Maritha Torkildsen Nilsson, for ST/OFR Selma El Hadi, and for Seko Christer Johansson.

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We are the medical link in the justice chain. Here, nurses, psychologists, forensic psychiatrists, social workers, caregivers, administrators, and many others work on behalf of, among others, the police, prosecutors, and courts.

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The Department of Forensic Psychiatry investigates on behalf of the court whether a person suspected of a crime committed it under the influence of a serious mental disorder. We also conduct risk assessments when life-sentenced individuals apply for a time-limited sentence. The Department of Forensic Psychiatry consists of two forensic psychiatric examination units located in Stockholm and Gothenburg, as well as the coordination unit located at the headquarters in Stockholm.

This is what we do:

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