Investigator in Suicide Prevention

Do you want to help develop the authority's work in the area of suicide prevention? The Public Health Agency of Sweden has been tasked with establishing a national investigation function to conduct investigations into individual deaths by suicide. We are therefore looking for investigators who will participate in building the new operation and conducting suicide investigations.

Do you want to make a difference in meaningful work? Read more and apply today.

What will you work with?

In collaboration with colleagues at the Unit for Suicide Investigations, you will work on building the investigation function and then conduct investigations and analyses of individual suicide cases.

The work will include:

• Collecting and analyzing information from various authorities, healthcare, schools, and municipal operations, as well as conducting conversations and interviews with relatives and professionals who have had contact with the deceased.
• Mapping the circumstances surrounding the suicide event and actions that could have prevented the death.
• Contributing to compiling, analyzing, and disseminating lessons learned from the investigations, for example through reports, web texts, and communication efforts, to strengthen suicide prevention work.
• Representing the area and presenting knowledge and lessons learned at conferences and meetings, in both Swedish and English.

The work also includes regular tasks for investigators at the authority, such as responding to referrals, working with environmental monitoring, communicating the unit's work in various forums, participating in the authority's networks and working groups, and contributing to the unit's and authority's general development work.

Who are we looking for?

Requirements for employment:

• Professional degree as a licensed health and medical care curator, licensed psychologist, or licensed nurse, alternatively a degree in social work, police education, or another professional or academic degree that the authority assesses as equivalent.
• At least three years of experience in patient or client-facing work within healthcare, social services, student health, LVU care, or similar operations. Alternatively, at least three years of experience in police or rescue services, where supportive or crisis management conversations, contact with survivors, or responding to relatives in grief or trauma have been part of the work.
• Current experience of independent investigative and analytical work, including collecting, compiling, and analyzing information from various sources.
• Good knowledge of and experience in suicide prevention work.

In addition, we see these competencies, abilities, and experiences as important for you to thrive with us:

Great emphasis is placed on:

• Experience in working with event analyses, accident investigations, or equivalent.
• Personal qualities such as strong analytical skills, good collaboration skills, as well as good empathetic and communicative abilities, with the ability to provide a professional, attentive, and trustworthy response while maintaining calm in difficult conversations.
• Good language skills in Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

Great importance is placed on:

• Subsequent master's degree, basic training in psychotherapy (step 1), or other relevant specialist or advanced training for the position.
• Experience working with children and young people with, for example, self-harming behavior, suicidality, neuropsychiatric variations, or intellectual disabilities.
• Communicative skill to convey knowledge in a target group-adapted manner, both in writing in reports and web texts, and orally.

Importance is placed on:

• Experience in collecting and analyzing search histories and communication in digital media, aimed at children and young people, on issues related to bullying, grooming, social isolation, or other vulnerabilities.
• Experience working at a government administrative authority.

What does the unit do?

The Unit for Suicide Investigations is responsible for a mission to build a national investigation function that can conduct investigations into deaths by suicide. The aim is to improve society's ability to learn about what has failed in the social safety net and other factors that may have influenced when someone takes their life. The operation will be conducted according to new legislation proposed to come into force on July 1, 2026. Until then, the unit will be built up with various competencies to be able to conduct death investigations and analyze and disseminate lessons learned.

What is it like to work at the Public Health Agency of Sweden?

We offer developing work tasks where you can influence and make a difference. Regardless of what you work with, you contribute to social benefit. You do this together with engaged and competent colleagues in stimulating collaborations. The Public Health Agency of Sweden is a workplace that strives to provide equal opportunities for all and to be free from discrimination. We operate in Solna and Östersund.

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About the Employment

You will be employed as an investigator based at our office in Solna. The position is a permanent full-time employment that begins with a six-month probationary period. Start date will be as soon as possible by agreement.

As an employee of the Public Health Agency of Sweden, you may be subject to military placement. Some positions are classified in security class where Swedish citizenship may be a requirement. A security review will then be conducted in accordance with the Security Protection Act (2018:585).

At the authority, there may be an opportunity to enter into an agreement for remote work of up to 40 percent of your working time.

Are you interested?

If you would like to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the department head Lennie Lindberg during week 9, tel. 010-205 26 26, and the unit head Jenny Telander during weeks 10-12, tel. 010-205 28 23.

Union representatives are for SACO Pi Zetterquist, tel. 010-205 22 95, and for OFR/S Jessika Spångberg, tel. 010-205 29 22.

Read more about what it's like to work with us

Application

Welcome with your application for the position of investigator with us!

We have chosen to remove the personal letter from the recruitment process. Instead, you apply with your CV and by answering selection questions. The goal is to create a more inclusive recruitment process. Psychological tests and work samples may be used as part of the recruitment process.

Please upload relevant degree certificates with your application.

Read in the application form how to proceed if you have protected personal information.

Apply by March 17, 2026, via the authority's website.

Employer's diary number: 00400-2026-2.1.1