Specialist Physician in General Medicine Wanted

We are looking for a specialist physician in general medicine for our medical practice with the opportunity to work full-time or part-time.

Our Offer

Primary Care Center Östergötland consists of 33 region-operated health centers, Health Center Finspång, Child Health Care Unit, 1177 and emergency centers in the evening and on weekends, and a General Medicine Training Center. We provide a broad primary care service where we offer care to everyone throughout their lives; newborns, children, adolescents, adults, the elderly, and patients at the end of life.

We are a forward-looking organization with a strong focus on a good working environment, development, and good health. We actively work to create conditions for a sustainable working life while having a development-inspired approach to meet future challenges in primary care. With us, there are good development opportunities for those who want to advance in their profession, become a manager, or pursue other paths, such as specialization or research.

The health center is easily accessible in the Hageby district with good connections to the rest of Norrköping and currently has about 15,000 registered patients. We have well-functioning, well-equipped, and pleasant facilities, as well as a development-inspired approach and conduct a broad primary care operation. We are proud to have a community profile characterized by diversity where we meet patients of all ages with many different care needs.

At the health center, there are medical consultations, specialist nurse consultations, nursing consultations, elderly care consultations, child health care, counseling consultations, dietitian competence, foot care, and laboratory services. We are also responsible for some nursing homes and home care in the listing area. We have about 65 employees who enjoy working together in an open work climate. Here we work together with collaboration and respect for each other's competence, our goal is a work climate where everyone has varied tasks and can develop in their professional role.

Job Description

We are in a phase of development and need more colleagues to meet patients' needs and purposefully steer towards improved and more efficient working methods. We have specialists, resident physicians at different levels, and several junior physicians. We also have our passionate senior employees who are eager to work and share their expertise.

Supervision of students and training physicians is an important part of the job, as is engagement in the health center's development and quality work. The health center's physicians also participate in primary and backup on-call duties for the eastern part of the county during on-call hours.

We offer you significant participation and influence in scheduling where the scope and distribution of tasks can be shaped according to your individual interests and needs. For us, it is natural to embrace the new opportunities to work digitally and remotely, even for employees at the health center.

About You

You are a specialist physician in general medicine and have previous experience working in primary care. You have a Swedish medical license (attached to the application) and Swedish language skills corresponding to level Swedish C1. As you work in constant dialogue with patients, relatives, colleagues, and other organizations, it is a requirement that you have very good knowledge of the Swedish language in both speech and writing. A valid driver's license (B) is required.

You are confident in your professional role, flexible, and easy to collaborate with. We want you to become part of our culture where we help each other and ask questions to solve problems together. You contribute to a good work climate with a positive attitude. You have good communication skills towards patients, colleagues, and other organizations. You are good at planning, organizing, and prioritizing your work. We value your commitment to business development and that you have social competence to meet different people based on their needs. We place great importance on personal qualities.

Application and Employment

The application should include a complete filled-out merit summary for physicians which you can find here (https://ledsys.lio.se/Document/Document?DocumentNumber=54500). This must be verified. Don't forget to also attach a copy of your diploma or license.

We work with ongoing selection, so please send in your application as soon as possible. Before employment in a patient-facing role within Region Östergötland, you will need to fill out a link (https://ledsys.lio.se/Document/Document?DocumentNumber=54500).

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

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