Doctor for the Lung Team

The Hospitals in the West is an administration within the Västra Götaland Region and consists of four hospitals – Alingsås Hospital, Angered Local Hospital, Högsbo Local Hospital, and Kungälv Hospital. About 3000 employees work with us every day to provide good and safe specialist healthcare of the highest quality.

Description

We are looking for a doctor to join our lung team.

With us, you will follow the patient from referral/new visit to investigation and outpatient follow-up. The specialist clinic has radiology, respiratory physiology, and blood gas analyses. In our multidisciplinary team, we have the opportunity to collaborate through short management pathways in the care of multimorbid patients.

The lung team has developed working methods for comprehensive care of patients with obstructive lung disease and asthma, through interactive collaboration between doctors, nurses with specialized training, coordinators, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, social workers, biomedical analysts, and medical secretaries. Treatment and care plans are created based on individual conditions through patient conferences.

In addition to obstructive lung disease, a wide range of pulmonary conditions are managed. The TB program is part of the lung clinic and focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of TB as well as contact tracing. We perform lung function tests, spirometry, IOS, NO measurement, and several other examinations.

The lung team also has a mission to prevent ill health, with a focus on tobacco prevention. The majority of the nurses are certified tobacco cessation specialists. The lung team also works with COPD school. Preventive work also takes place outside the hospital.

Responsibilities

• Work within pulmonary specialist care, only outpatient Monday to Friday, currently daytime.
• The position includes interpretations of various respiratory physiological examinations, consultative work within the mobile team, and ensuring that diagnostics and treatment are carried out according to current guidelines and recommendations.
• Participate in the ongoing work to develop the pulmonary medical operations, contribute to the competence development among employees, and collaborate with other actors such as ASIH, primary care, municipalities, and other hospitals.
• Be easily accessible for consultation on issues related to pulmonary conditions.

Qualifications

• Licensed physician with specialist competence in lung diseases.
• Experience and competence in managing outpatient patients with lung diseases and lung infections.
• Good social skills and ability to collaborate as our work is based on teamwork.
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written, is a requirement.

We place great importance on your personal qualities in this recruitment.

Other

We believe that diversity in the workforce is an essential factor in achieving good operational results and developing the content and quality of the operations, therefore diversity aspects are considered in the recruitment.

Welcome with your application!

About Västra Götaland Region

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Want to know more about Västra Götaland Region?

You can visit our introduction for new employees at the link here (https://www.vgregion.se/introduktion). You can also read more in the presentation here (https://mellanarkiv-offentlig.vgregion.se/alfresco/s/archive/stream/public/v1/source/available/sofia/rs4011-467070786-672/surrogate).

Application

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