Do you want to work as a nurse and contribute to a just society?

With us, you can do both! We are now looking for nurses for summer vacancies at our forensic psychiatric examination unit in Stockholm, located at Helix near Huddinge Hospital.

Do you want a meaningful job where your skills help strengthen legal security? The National Board of Forensic Medicine is the expert authority that provides the justice system with the basis for important decisions from forensic medicine and forensic analyses to forensic psychiatric investigations. Whether you work in core operations or in a supportive role, you are part of something bigger, contributing to a just society.

The National Board of Forensic Medicine has received two new assignments – to perform risk assessments on behalf of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service regarding conditional release and to conduct special risk investigations regarding security sentences on behalf of the court. The operations are in a phase of change and new employees are being recruited.

Your assignment

The suspects are housed at the unit during the investigation period. You are responsible, under the group manager, for the work at a stay department and lead the nursing staff. You work for care, security, and logistics.

The Department of Forensic Psychiatry investigates, at the request of the court, whether a person suspected of a crime committed it under the influence of a serious mental disorder. The Department of Forensic Psychiatry consists of two forensic psychiatric examination units located in Stockholm and Gothenburg, as well as a coordination unit located at the headquarters in Stockholm.

This is what we do: Forensic Psychiatry - National Board of Forensic Medicine (rmv.se) (https://www.rmv.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/vara-medarbetare/)

Here you can meet some of our employees: https://www.rmv.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/vara-medarbetare/ (https://www.rmv.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/vara-medarbetare/)

Qualifications

• You are a licensed nurse.
• Experience in psychiatric care.

Meritorious

• Experience working in forensic psychiatric care, psychiatric emergency care, correctional care, or similar fields.

Personal qualities/abilities

You have an interest in leadership and are professional in stressful and acute situations. You have the ability to create collaboration, dialogue, and trust with colleagues and detainees. Clarity, responsiveness, and organizational skills are qualities we value highly. It is important that you can express yourself well in spoken and written English.

Due to the nature of the work, great emphasis will be placed on your personal qualities.

Employment

We are looking for summer substitutes during the period of June-August 2026, individual solutions are possible.

The work involves three shifts, daytime, evenings, nights, and weekends.

The place of employment is at the Forensic Psychiatric Examination Unit in Stockholm, Helix located near Huddinge Hospital. The National Board of Forensic Medicine applies individual salary setting, start date by agreement. Selection and interviews will be conducted continuously.

RMV 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.

We conduct a background check by checking the criminal record before employment. RMV applies a competency-based recruitment process where psychological tests, knowledge tests, or work samples may occur. Before hiring licensed health and medical care personnel, checks are performed with the National Board of Health and Welfare and the Health and Social Care Inspectorate.

Upon employment at the National Board of Forensic Medicine, there is an obligation to be placed in a war position.

Want to know more?

For more information, please contact the recruiting group manager Stefan Fohlheim at 010 4834 550.

Union representatives for Saco are Maritha Torkildsen Nilsson tel. 010-483 41 27, for Seko Christer Johansson tel. 010-483 46 00, and for ST/OFR Selma El Hadi, tel. 010-483 46 34.

Do you also want to contribute to a just society?

Welcome with your application by March 10, 2026. Grades and other documents should be brought to a possible interview. Selection and interviews will be conducted continuously during the application period, so please send in your application via the button below today.

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

We are the medical link in the justice chain. Here, nurses, psychologists, forensic psychiatrists, social workers, caregivers, administrators, and many more work on behalf of, among others, the police, prosecutors, and courts.

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