Training Position for Specialist Nurse in Cardiology

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

Seize the opportunity to train as a specialist nurse in cardiology!

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 shortage. This means that you study with a maintained base salary and then receive a permanent position as a specialist in the region.

During the study period, you will have an introduction plan and regular contact with the manager at your upcoming workplace. Once you have received your degree, the training position will transition to a permanent employment as a specialist nurse in cardiology, 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 the training.

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

Focus

As a specialist nurse with a focus on cardiology, you play an important role and have specialist competence to ensure that individuals affected by heart disease receive safe, person-centered, and evidence-based care throughout the disease process. You work in collaboration with other members of the care team around the patient and across clinic boundaries.

As a specialist nurse, you have advanced knowledge in assessment, planning, prevention, support for self-care, and follow-up of patients with various forms of heart disease and work at different levels of care with heart patients. There is a high demand for specialist nurses with the ability to assess, analyze, manage, and evaluate the complex and varying situations that may arise in this field.

For this focus, Region Östergötland offers a training position at the cardiology clinic at the University Hospital in Linköping and Vrinnevisjukhuset in Norrköping. Training on a part-time basis starts in the autumn semester of 2026 at Sofiahemmet University in Stockholm.

About You

To be eligible 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 applying 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 eligible for a training position, you must also be accepted into the specialist nursing program. You are responsible for applying for the education at www.antagning.se (https://www.antagning.se) between February 16 and March 16. You apply for the position now and then complete your application in the recruitment system with the admission certificate when you receive it.

If the conditions for the training position are met, an initial selection will take place 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 no later than the end of June.

Each introduction is individual and is done together with the immediate manager. Before employment, you will also make a written agreement on what applies during your training period. During study breaks, such as the summer, you will work at the unit where your employment for the 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 16 at the latest. Before employment in a patient-facing role within Region Östergötland, you will need to fill in 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 decline direct contact with staffing, placement, and recruitment companies as well as other external actors and sellers of additional job advertisements. Region Östergötland has contracted agreements.