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Do you want a meaningful job where your skills contribute to strengthening legal certainty? The National Board of Forensic Medicine is the expert authority that provides the judiciary 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 a group manager/psychologist for the Forensic Psychiatric Examination Unit in Stockholm, located near Huddinge Hospital.

Your assignment

As the group manager for the psychology group, you will work with leadership, have personnel and budget responsibilities, participate in the unit's management team, and work with quality, follow-up, and business development. As a psychologist, you will work with clinical tasks through the investigations carried out by the unit. You will collaborate closely with other professionals within the forensic psychiatric department in both the managerial and psychological roles.

The National Board of Forensic Medicine has received two new assignments – to conduct risk assessments on behalf of the Prison and Probation Service regarding conditional release and to carry out special risk investigations regarding security sentences on behalf of the court. The organization and structure of the unit will be shaped over the next year together with clients and employees. The assignments will take effect on January 1, 2026, and March 1, 2026, respectively. To meet an increased case load and new tasks, we will recruit several new employees during 2026.

Qualifications

• You are a licensed psychologist
• You have many years of experience working with psychological assessments

Meritorious

• Experience in forensic psychiatric investigation activities
• Experience in business development, management assignments, or from a managerial role in the public sector

Personal qualities and abilities

You are interested in the managerial role and its administrative and strategic aspects. As a manager, you need to be able to collaborate and create dialogue with colleagues and employees within the authority. You also need to have the ability to take initiative and build trust.

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

Employment

Permanent employment that may begin with a six-month probationary period, start date by agreement, and placement at the forensic psychiatric examination unit in Stockholm.

This is a combined position with responsibilities both as a group manager and as a psychologist.

The authority's units are located in various places in Sweden, which means that travel in the job may occur. The National Board of Forensic Medicine applies individual salary setting.

Based on the needs of the unit, there is the possibility to enter into an individual agreement regarding remote work for part of the working hours.

RMV is part of the justice chain and we place high demands on employees' judgment and security thinking 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 certainty, security, and trust in the authority.

We conduct a background check by checking the criminal record before employment. RMV applies a competency-based recruitment process where there may be psychological tests, knowledge tests, or work samples. 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 with the National Board of Forensic Medicine, there is an obligation to be placed in a war position.

Do you also want to contribute to a legally secure society? Welcome with your application by January 20, 2026. Grades and other documents should be included in a possible interview.

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

We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in this recruitment.

Want to know more?

For more information, please contact unit manager Patrik Backgård at phone 010 483 4525. You can also contact HR specialist Bonde Svedberg at phone 010 483 4898. Our union representatives can be reached via our switchboard at phone: 010-483 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 more 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.

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