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Midwife to Järva Youth Clinic

Stockholm County has 30 youth clinics operated in collaboration between the county's municipalities and Stockholm County Council's Healthcare Area (SLSO), which is responsible for the operation of the medical part of the activities. The overall mission of the youth clinics is to promote sexual and reproductive health and to prevent and detect mental ill-health and social problems among young people aged 12 to 23. We work health-promoting from a holistic perspective.

Järva Youth Clinic is centrally located in Kista in fine premises. The clinic's interdisciplinary team consists of midwives, counselors, and doctors. The clinic is a low-threshold activity that is open during the day, Monday to Friday, and one weekday evening a week.

Read more about Järva Youth Clinic at: Järva Youth Clinic (ungdomsmottagningarna.se) (https://ungdomsmottagningarna.se)

SLSO offers:

Within SLSO, there are good opportunities for you as an employee to develop and become really good in your profession. On our intranet, there is information for you as a new employee to support your introduction when you start with us. We have a number of mandatory trainings and, in addition, there are further opportunities for professional development. We regularly offer various trainings according to your needs and also have a well-established introduction program.

We also offer our employees benefits such as flexible working hours, fitness allowance, free open healthcare, and occupational pension, among others. You can read more about it at Benefits at Stockholm County Council's Healthcare Area (regionstockholm.se) (https://regionstockholm.se)

About the position:

We are looking for a midwife with interest and commitment to work with young people's sexual and reproductive health. The work includes, among other things, contraceptive counseling, gynecological and andrological examinations, talks and counseling on issues of sexuality and sex, as well as sampling, contact tracing, and treatment of STIs. In addition to physical booked visits and Drop In hours, we work with telephone, video meetings, and chat. The work also includes an outward-facing assignment, where we, among other things, receive high school students for study visits at the clinic. We are a low-threshold activity and always strive for high accessibility.

A large part of the midwife's work is done independently, but we value good collaboration in the team and support each other.

Norm awareness and diversity are important to us; all young people and all employees should feel equally welcome with us. As a work group, we cherish our respectful, positive, and solution-oriented work climate. In that spirit, we want to continue.

About you:

Those who work at our clinic need to be flexible, solution-oriented, and used to taking personal responsibility in the clinic work as well as for the work group and the clinic as a whole. We wish that you are secure in your professional role, which likely means that you have worked for a few years as a midwife, or otherwise have experience of working with issues related to sexual and reproductive health.

In this recruitment, we place great importance on personal suitability.

Qualification requirements:

• Licensed midwife with prescribing rights.

Merits:

• Experience of working with issues related to sexual and reproductive health
• Experience of working with young people/young adults
• Experience of patient contact in outpatient care via physical visits, chats, and video meetings
• At least 3 years of work experience as a midwife

Employment form:

100%, permanent employment during the day with service one evening a week and about one/two Saturdays per term (at another youth clinic in Stockholm). Start as soon as possible or by agreement. Probationary employment may be relevant.

Other information:

We will review applications on an ongoing basis and may call for an interview before the last application date.

Warmly welcome with your application!

The position is filled on the condition that it does not need to be taken into account for internal relocation, according to current regulations.

In patient-near work within Stockholm County Council's Healthcare Area:

• Register control is applied before the decision on employment according to SLSO's overall instruction for register control at employment.
• Employees who will have patient contact must undergo a new employment examination, according to current directives, which takes place through the occupational health service before employment.
• Requires, in addition to Swedish professional license, good knowledge of the Swedish language corresponding to level C1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The same requirement is guiding regarding non-licensed personnel with patient contact.

Stockholm County Council's Healthcare Area (SLSO) is one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers with 11,600 employees. We offer healthcare in Region Stockholm's regime within psychiatry, primary care, geriatrics, ASIH, urgent care, somatic specialist care, habilitation and health, and assistive devices. In collaboration with Karolinska Institutet, we conduct research, education, and development. Read more about SLSO here.

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