Medical Secretary for Clinical Pathology

Region Västerbotten works to ensure that good health and sustainable development strengthen each other. We take responsibility for equitable welfare and ensure that research and innovation yield results.

Clinical pathology is part of Laboratory Medicine, a regional organization with operations in Lycksele, Skellefteå, and Umeå.

Laboratory Medicine Västerbotten comprises approximately 520 employees and includes clinical pathology, clinical microbiology, healthcare hygiene, clinical genetics, clinical immunology and transfusion medicine, clinical chemistry, biobanking, and tissue establishment. Through agreements, we have total responsibility for clinical pathology in Östersund, including medical management responsibility for immunology and transfusion medicine, clinical chemistry, and clinical microbiology.

The operations are accredited, and we work according to the quality system on which Laboratory Medicine's accreditation is based. At the clinical pathology laboratories, about 120 people work in Umeå and about 15 people in Östersund. Thanks to our rapid development and increasing number of analyses, staffing has been significantly expanded in recent years, and we have become a large group with strong cohesion, humor, and job satisfaction.

We are now looking for someone who wants to work in an engaged team of colleagues within our secretariat.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a medical secretary with us, you provide essential service and enable efforts that contribute to a vital part of our cancer care. Your tasks include, among others:

• Dictation writing
• Preparatory round activities
• Sample reception, arrival registration, scanning in our patient data system
• Performing purchases and orders
• Working according to Laboratory Medicine's quality system
• Reporting to various registers
• A significant amount of archival work in various forms

Your placement will be in the secretariat section, but you may also contribute to department-wide tasks and support other sections within Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as a whole.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• Medical secretary/healthcare administrator education
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Works meticulously, methodically, service-oriented, self-driven, and takes great responsibility for your job.
• Can work independently based on established written methods.
• Has computer skills and easily adapts to new knowledge and changing working methods.
• Experience working with laboratory-related information systems is valued.
• Experience from laboratories, care departments/primary care is an advantage.
• Fluent in Swedish, both spoken and written
• Interest in change work and development
• Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.
• Sees the whole and the bigger picture, with the patient in focus and the best interests of the organization in mind

OTHER

Read more about our benefits for those who work with us on our website Benefits (https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner).

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants from different backgrounds.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore kindly ask for no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply, please contact the recruiting manager and then send your application documents by post.