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Training Position for Specialist Nurse with Focus on Children and Adolescents

To succeed in the long-term competence supply within healthcare, we want to offer you as a nurse the opportunity to further your education to become a specialist nurse – with a maintained base salary throughout the entire training period.

Take the chance and train to become a specialist nurse with a focus on children and adolescents!

Our Offer

Region Östergötland operates throughout Östergötland. To continue to be at the forefront of care, research, and education, you as a nurse now have the opportunity to apply for training positions with us in areas of specialist competence that are in demand. This means that you study with a maintained base salary and then receive a permanent position as a specialist in the region.

During your studies, you will have an introduction plan and regular contact with the manager at your future workplace. Once you have received your approved degree, the training position will transition to a permanent employment as a specialist nurse within healthcare for children and adolescents, where you will have more qualified tasks where specialist competence is deemed necessary for good and safe patient care. You will also receive a salary increase of 4000 SEK after completing your training.

Feel free to read about Johanna who shares her experience of studying to become a specialist nurse and Isabel who is studying to become a midwife. Also, read about your benefits with us.

Focus

As a specialist nurse with a focus on children and adolescents, you will be responsible for ensuring that all decisions regarding the child are made based on the child's best interests. Interaction, communication, and child-centered care are central parts of the training. As a specialist nurse in children and adolescents, you can work in both inpatient and outpatient care at children's clinics.

In your profession, you will contribute to the future health of children and adolescents, as well as support children living with chronic illness to develop and transition into adulthood despite their illness. Your role also includes strengthening and supporting children and adolescents with special needs and their families.

For this focus, Region Östergötland offers a training position at H.K.H. Crown Princess Victoria Children's and Youth Hospital and Allergy Center in Linköping, as well as at the Children's and Youth Clinic in Norrköping.

About You

To be considered for the training position, you need to:

• Be a licensed nurse
• Be accepted into the specialist training program in the autumn of 2026
• Not have previously received study salary/paid specialist/further education from Region Östergötland

We prefer that you have worked several years as a nurse. You do not need to be employed by Region Östergötland when you apply for a training position as a nurse.

We are looking for someone who works well with others and takes responsibility for their tasks. You are quality-conscious and can be flexible based on changing circumstances. You value your specialist knowledge, are a knowledge resource for others, and adapt your way of conveying knowledge according to the recipient.

Application and Employment

To be considered for a training position, you must also be accepted into the specialist nursing program. You are responsible for applying to the program at www.antagning.se (https://www.antagning.se) between February 16th and March 16th. You apply for the position now and then complete your application in the recruitment system with your acceptance letter once you have received it.

If the conditions for the training position are met, an initial selection will be made where those deemed most suitable will be called for an interview and reference checks will be conducted. Notification of whether the training position is granted or not will be communicated to each applicant by the end of June.

Each introduction is individual and is done together with the nearest manager. Before employment, you will also make a written agreement regarding what applies during your training period. During study breaks, such as summer, you will work at the unit where your training position is located, unless otherwise agreed.

Submit your application for the training position here and remember to also apply for the education via antagning.se by March 16th. Before employment in a patient-related role within Region Östergötland, you will need to fill out a document (https://ledsys.lio.se/Document/Document?DocumentNumber=54500).

Warm welcome to submit your application! If you need help registering in the system, contact customer service Support and Service, 010-103 60 00, during office hours.

To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you as a seller: We kindly but firmly request no direct contact with staffing, placement, and recruitment companies as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job ads. Region Östergötland has contracted agreements.