Management and Support Function at Akademiska Hospital

We are Akademiska Hospital – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a regional hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we offer healthcare to two million people in Central Sweden. Something is always happening here – a new life is born, a grandmother is operated on, a colleague is celebrated as a hero. With us, you will experience both tough challenges and fantastic events, in a strong community with colleagues. See parts of our reality in our photo exhibition; akademiskafotoutstallning.se (http://akademiskafotoutstallning.se). Welcome with your application!

Our Operations

Health Administrative Service (VAS) is a hospital-wide organization where medical secretaries, administrators, and receptionists provide administrative support to all departments within the hospital. This means that you will become an important part of the care chain at one of Sweden's largest university hospitals with high competence, specialist care, choices, and an enormous breadth.

The professional role of medical secretary is undergoing a significant transformation as we move towards broader and more coordinating roles with tasks including appointment scheduling. Akademiska Hospital is at the forefront in Sweden regarding task exchange and the ongoing restructuring work for medical secretaries. We both cherish and believe in the development of the profession.

Within VAS, we regularly organize training days and opportunities for targeted training aimed at our profession, and we offer great opportunities for varied work. Creating opportunities for employees to grow within our organization is important to us.

We are leading in Sweden in diagnosis classification and strive to maintain that position through continuous further education for our employees.

Your Mission

The role of medical secretary at Akademiska Hospital is facing a significant change due to the advancement of digitalization regarding speech recognition; therefore, task exchange is our major focus area.

Properly utilized competence frees up time for healthcare personnel, and as a medical secretary, you play a central and important role.

We are currently seeking substitutes for writing assignments within several departments at the hospital. As a medical secretary, you are an important part of the team around the patient. Together, we create a structured and efficient healthcare administration with the core operations and the patient at the center.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for someone with an approved education in Health and Medical Care Administration (80p KY/400p YH) or equivalent education for medical secretaries. You have excellent knowledge of the Swedish language in both speech and writing. Furthermore, you have good IT skills in a Windows environment. We would also like you to have experience in diagnosis classification, and previous work in Cosmic is considered a merit.

Your Competence

To work as a medical secretary with us, a high sense of responsibility and accuracy is required to ensure that the administration around patients functions in a patient-safe manner. To succeed in your role, we see that you can collaborate well with all professional categories and have a good ability to adapt to new conditions and situations. In pressured situations, you easily adjust and prioritize work based on the hospital's needs. We would like you to have competence in several medical specialties.

You see the value of a flexible approach and enjoy working both independently and together with colleagues. Your service mindset, engagement, and positive attitude contribute to a good work climate, where we all help each other and collaborate to achieve the best quality of care for our patients. We would like you to participate in the development of routines and working methods.

We value that you take the initiative to maintain your specialist knowledge and enjoy being a knowledge resource for others.

We Offer

It is important to us that you get a good start in your work; therefore, we provide you with an introduction tailored to your experiences and needs.

We are looking for you who are trained as a medical secretary or health administrator for a varied assignment within health administrative service.

We offer a 6-month substitute position.

Interviews and appointments will be ongoing. More about us can be read on our website, welcome there! Health Administrative Service (http://www.akademiska.se/vas)

With us, you will receive benefits that make a difference; read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/jobba-hos-oss/bli-var-nya-kollega/formaner/).

Want to know more?

Welcome to contact:

• Hanna Jeppsson, group manager VAS, 018-617 37 06 or [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
• Linnéa Rosvold, group manager VAS, 018-617 10 85 or [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
• Annki Ingvarsdotter, group manager VAS, 018-611 98 78 or [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Union contacts Vision:

• Fanny Jörgensen, 018-617 26 84 or [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
• Maria Wibeck, 018-617 19 56 or [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Other unions can be reached via Region Uppsala's switchboard 018-611 00 00.

Want to work with us?

Welcome with your application via the link below. Recruitment may occur continuously during the application period.

Region Uppsala values the qualities that gender balance and diversity bring to the organization and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different backgrounds, abilities, and life experiences.

Region Uppsala will place all permanent staff based on the needs of total defense. This means that for the individual employee, there are no obligations in peacetime but is solely a planning measure.

Before a hiring decision, a check of suspicion and criminal records will be conducted for all applicants who may work in psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and youth, or compulsory care of substance abusers, areas that are subject to optional record extracts. This applies to everyone who will work closely with patients, even if the tasks are not currently intended to primarily involve work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is entirely managed by Region Uppsala, and we kindly ask recruitment companies and advertisement sellers not to call.