Area of Operations Academic Laboratory

We are the Academic Hospital – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a regional hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we offer care to two million people in Central Sweden. Something is always happening here – a new life is born, a grandmother is operated on, a colleague is celebrated as a hero. With us, you will experience both tough challenges and fantastic events, in a strong community with colleagues. See parts of our reality in our photo exhibition; akademiskafotoutstallning.se (http://akademiskafotoutstallning.se). Welcome with your application!

Our Operations

Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology (KKF) is part of the Academic Laboratory area. We are a highly specialized operation that performs diagnostics around the clock and provides guidance in the fields of chemistry and pharmacology. The analyses are quick and quality-assured to streamline healthcare processes and support research and development. We also provide support for patient-centered operations within inpatient and outpatient care. Approximately 140 employees work within KKF, and we always strive to be an attractive workplace with engaged colleagues and good leadership.

Your Mission

The position refers to a temporary position in our sampling operation at the Academic Hospital entrance 70. Here you will work with meeting patients and taking blood samples from both children and adults. The work is significant, rewarding, and developmental. In the section for clinical chemistry and pharmacology, where most work in a high-tech laboratory environment, you will be one of our faces in the important meeting with the patient.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is a trained nursing assistant with good experience in venous and capillary blood sampling. To succeed and thrive in the role, you need to be meticulous, flexible, and enjoy meeting different people. You are humble, good at collaborating, and can handle a varying pace of work. The position requires that you understand and speak Swedish fluently. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability and the ability to quickly adapt to the work.

Your Competence

As a nursing assistant in clinical chemistry and pharmacology sampling, you take responsibility for your tasks and drive your processes forward in a structured way. You remain calm and controlled under stress or in pressured situations while being meticulous and striving to meet goals and quality standards. You work well with others, are attentive, and resolve conflicts constructively. You have the interest, willingness, and ability to help others and make an effort to deliver solutions.

We Offer

The temporary position starts by agreement and is planned to run until August 14, 2026. The work will be performed during daytime hours from 7:15 AM to 4:00 PM.

With us, you will receive benefits that make a difference; read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/).

Want to Know More?

Questions about daily work: Process Manager Helena Lekeby, 018 – 611 32 40
General questions about employment: Department Manager Fredde Klintstrand, 018 – 611 42 19

Union contact person, Kommunal, can be reached via the switchboard at 018-611 00 00

Do You Want to Work with Us?

Welcome with your application via the link below. Selection and appointment may occur before the application deadline.

Please attach the following documents:
• A CV and cover letter
• Any proof of protected professional title

Important Information Regarding Your Employment:

Since July 1, 2023, nursing assistant is a protected professional title. This means that a certificate from the National Board of Health and Welfare is required to use the title nursing assistant. You can read more about the new legal requirements here (https://legitimation.socialstyrelsen.se/skyddad-yrkestitel-for-underskoterska/information-om-skyddad-yrkestitel/). Due to national legal requirements, you may receive the title care assistant in your employment contract.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to the organization and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala places all permanent staff based on the needs of total defense. This means that individual employees have no obligations in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before making a hiring decision, a check of suspicion and criminal records will be conducted for all applicants who may work in psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and youth, or involuntary care of substance abusers, areas that are subject to optional record extracts. This applies to everyone who will work closely with patients, even if the tasks are not currently intended to primarily involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is conducted entirely by Region Uppsala, and we kindly ask recruitment companies and advertisement sellers to refrain from calling.