Veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency in Central Skåne and Southern Småland

Are you a veterinarian who is tired of exhausting calvings, prolonged price discussions, and free telephone consultations? Then a needs-based employment at the Swedish Food Agency and the Central Skåne and Southern Småland team might be for you! Try working in a very important job that combines animal welfare and safe food together with wonderful colleagues who support each other in all weather!

We are looking for flexible veterinarians who can step in at short notice at a slaughterhouse in Lammhult and at smaller wildlife facilities located in the surrounding areas.

Welcome to your role as a veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency!

A sustainable employment

The Swedish Food Agency actively works to offer all employees sustainable employment. We provide you with a good introduction when you start with us and we offer secure working conditions and good benefits. We want you to feel that it is fun to go to work, and that what you do is important. As an official veterinarian, you contribute to Sweden having good animal welfare and safe food. As a veterinarian at the Swedish Food Agency, you have an independent job, but in difficult decisions and situations, your knowledgeable colleagues are just a call away. Here you become part of a team where we help and support each other in the daily work. Together we make a difference!

A socially important mission

As an official veterinarian, you contribute to Sweden having good animal welfare and safe food. In your work, you are responsible for live animal inspections and inspections after slaughter. You work to detect any deficiencies in animal welfare by examining the animals coming to the slaughterhouse and how the company's employees handle the animals. You ensure that the animals are healthy at both individual and flock levels, and assess whether the meat from the animals can be approved as food.

As an authority representative, you have an important mission towards the entrepreneur. You have a control function, but you should also act as support and facilitate for the entrepreneur to do the right thing. You do this by informing about what good animal welfare means, about the animals' needs and species-specific characteristics, and by helping to create an understanding of hygiene and food safety in food production.

About the team

You will belong to the Central Skåne & Southern Småland team. The team consists of 9 official veterinarians and 6 food inspectors. The team is strongly bonded and has a great focus on equality, which means you always have a knowledgeable colleague to contact when needed. In Lammhult, three of the team members work; two official veterinarians and one food inspector.

The position involves staffing either a slaughterhouse in Lammhult or one of the three wildlife facilities in the local area. It can involve single days and longer periods. You will be offered an introduction based on your needs and given the opportunity to visit the facilities. There is an opportunity to combine the job with another employment/activity that does not conflict with the Swedish Food Agency's mission.

Your competencies

To work as an official veterinarian with us, you must have a Swedish veterinary license, or a veterinary license from another country that has been approved by the Swedish Board of Agriculture for professional practice in Sweden.

You should also have good knowledge of Swedish and be able to understand and make yourself understood in English. Good administrative skills and good written Swedish are also highly valued for this position.

As a person, we would like you to be curious and want to try how it is to contribute to good animal welfare and safe food. You need to be flexible, punctual, efficient, and able to make your own well-founded decisions and initiatives. You have high personal maturity with the ability to reflect on your own strengths and areas for development, and can see and contribute to the whole. You dare to make the decisions required in consultation with your colleagues and manager. You have good collaboration skills and help selflessly where needed. You keep yourself updated on the latest in your area of expertise and are happy to share your knowledge and experience. At the same time, you are open to learning from others. It is together with your colleagues that you succeed and develop. Conversations in meetings with entrepreneurs and in contact with other stakeholders are also part of the job, which requires you to be clear, professional, and attentive in your communication, while being confident in your authority role. We will place great emphasis on your personal qualities.

Welcome to contact us

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact the recruiting team leader Gitte Alexandersson. The representative for Saco-S is Nora Arifali and for ST Ricardo Machuca, all can be reached via our switchboard at tel. 018-17 55 00.

The last application date is 2026-04-19. Apply via the job advertisement on livsmedelsverket.se/lediga jobb. Mark your application with diary number 2026/01027.

More information about the position

Employment form: Temporary employment as needed. Duration of the temporary employment according to agreement.

Start date: According to agreement

Scope: As needed according to agreement

Organizational affiliation: Department of Food Control/Unit for Slaughter Control in Southern Sweden

Location: Lammhult or according to agreement

Before the interview

Grades/certificates and ID documents that support your application should be brought to a possible interview. We will also request references.

More about the Swedish Food Agency

The Swedish Food Agency works to ensure that the food produced, sold, and served in Sweden is safe and honest, for a society where it is easy for people to eat in a healthy and sustainable way, and a secure food and drinking water supply in everyday life and crisis. Our tools are knowledge, advice, regulations, and control. We are a total of about 700 employees, of which more than 390 are in Uppsala and about 300 work with food control out in the country.