Forensic Medical Assistant at the National Board of Forensic Medicine in Umeå

Do you want a workday where your contribution matters? At the National Board of Forensic Medicine, we work with everything from medical analyses and genetic investigations to psychiatric assessments. Regardless of your role, you contribute to legal security.

We are now looking for a forensic medical assistant for the forensic medicine unit in Umeå. The unit consists of nearly 20 employees who work together to conduct forensic autopsies and issue forensic certificates.

Your mission

As a forensic medical assistant, you will primarily work to practically prepare and assist in forensic autopsies. This includes performing organ extractions and sampling, preparing the deceased, and related work in the morgue. The role also involves contact with the police, relatives, and funeral contractors. Other tasks within the framework of the unit's and department's assignments may also occur, such as performing CT scans of the deceased.

Qualifications:

• At least a high school diploma, e.g., nursing assistant training, or equivalent education deemed comparable by the National Board of Forensic Medicine
• Relevant work experience as assessed by the employer
• Good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form

Meritorious

• Current experience in autopsy work including work with CT scanning of the deceased
• Documented course/training in anatomy

Please note that requirements and any merits must be fulfilled by the application deadline.

Personal qualities and abilities

To handle the work, both integrity and personal maturity are required. The tasks are both physically and mentally challenging. They include fine motor skills as well as physically demanding tasks, which require good physical condition, and the work with death investigations requires the ability to handle difficult events.

The work requires a high level of quality awareness and good teamwork skills. We see that you are attentive to the needs of the organization and colleagues and contribute to a good working environment. If necessary, other tasks within the framework of the unit's and department's assignments may also occur, which is why a flexible approach is a prerequisite for the role.

We place great importance on your personal qualities.

Employment

The employment is a fixed-term full-time position for eight weeks during the summer period of 2026. Start date is according to agreement. Placement in Umeå. The National Board of Forensic Medicine applies individual salary setting.

The National Board of Forensic Medicine 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 security, legal certainty, and trust in the authority.

In some of our recruitments, a background check is conducted. We apply 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.

Do you also want to contribute to a legally secure society? Welcome with your application by February 22. Grades and other documents should be brought to a possible interview. If you have protected personal information, please contact the manager indicated below.

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

Want to know more?

For more information, please contact Anders Rietz at 010-483 47 03. Our union representatives can be reached through our switchboard at 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, forensic doctors, investigators, forensic medical assistants, biomedical analysts, administrators, and many more work on behalf of, among others, the police, prosecutors, and courts.

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The Department of Forensic Medicine conducts approximately 5,500 forensic autopsies each year on behalf of the police and prosecutors. We also investigate suspected perpetrators and victims of violent crimes. Within the Department of Forensic Medicine, there are six forensic medical units located in Umeå, Uppsala, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Linköping, and Lund.

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