Infection Control Physician at Region Uppsala

The Executive Office of Region Uppsala is part of Region Uppsala, one of the largest employers in Uppsala County. The Executive Office is led by the Regional Director and consists of approximately one thousand employees. With a governing, supportive, and coordinating role, the Executive Office is tasked with supporting the political leadership and administrations to ensure that political guidelines are implemented across the region's various operations. In this way, Region Uppsala can assume its role both regionally and nationally.

Do you want to develop and contribute to the growth of Region Uppsala? We welcome you to join us!

Do you want to work in a socially important role where your medical expertise and experience contribute to protecting the population from infectious diseases? We are now looking for an Infection Control Physician for Region Uppsala.

Workplace Description

The Infection Control Unit is a regional authority function responsible for preventing and limiting the spread of infectious diseases in Uppsala County. The mandate includes exercising authority according to the Infectious Diseases Act.

As an Infection Control Physician, your direct superior is the Director of Health and Medical Care. The role involves close collaboration with the Head of the Infection Control Unit and Strama. Together, you are responsible for leading and developing the operations. The Infection Control Physician holds the overall and authoritative responsibility for infection control work, while the Head of Unit is responsible for finance, operational management, and personnel.

The Infection Control Unit and Strama consist of twelve employees, two of whom work part-time as Assistant Infection Control Physicians. The operations are located in Uppsala Science Park and are organizationally placed within the Department of Health and Medical Care, led by the Director of Health and Medical Care. The department is part of the Executive Office of Region Uppsala, which has a governing, supportive, and coordinating role within the region.

Your Assignment

As an Infection Control Physician, you have the overall responsibility for planning, organizing, and leading the infection control work in the region. The assignment aims to ensure efficiency, coordination, and uniformity in regional infection control efforts.

The work is based on the Infectious Diseases Act and includes, among other things:

• Epidemiological surveillance and analysis.
• Preventive infection control measures and strategic development work.
• Outbreak management.
• Vaccination coordination.
• Planning and handling of pandemic and epidemic situations.
• Regional, national, and international environmental scanning.

In this role, you represent Region Uppsala in contact with the public, healthcare personnel, healthcare institutions, municipalities, authorities, business life, civil society, and media regarding matters concerning infectious diseases and preventive measures.

Qualifications

• Licensed physician with specialist competence in infectious diseases or clinical microbiology, as well as several years of clinical experience as a specialist.
• Experience in infection control work and epidemiology.

Merits

• Experience in leading and collaborating on complex issues.
• Experience in research and development work.

Your Competence

To succeed in the position, we see that you have knowledge and previous practical experience of infection control work. You have excellent communication skills and are skilled at conveying messages both orally and in writing. You are interested in and skilled at working in teams together with colleagues and external collaboration partners. As a person, you have the ability to collaborate, take responsibility, drive cases, and make decisions. You understand complex systems and connections and work from a holistic perspective in collaboration with others. We place great importance on personal suitability.

We Offer

We offer a permanent full-time position, with the employment level open for discussion, and start date according to agreement. Selection and interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis. With us, you will have a qualified and independent assignment with great social benefit, in a friendly and knowledgeable work environment where collaboration and competence are highly valued. With us, you receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/ (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/)).

Want to know more?

Director of Health and Medical Care
Mikael Köhler, +46 18-611 43 74

Head of Infection Control Unit and Strama
Jenny Kostov Kanebjörk, +46 18-611 20 07

Acting Infection Control Physician
Anna Gillman, +46 18-611 92 23

The union contact person can be reached via the Uppland General Medical Association, office +46 18-611 34 95.

Do you want to work with us?

Please submit your application via the link below.

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

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

Before a decision on employment, checks of suspicion and criminal records are conducted for all job seekers who in the sought employment may come to work within psychiatric care, habilitation, care of children and youth, or compulsory care of addicts, areas covered by optional record extracts. This thus applies to all who will work in close contact with patients, even if the tasks at present are not intended to primarily contain work with the aforementioned patient groups.

This recruitment is conducted entirely through Region Uppsala's own efforts, and we decline phone calls from recruitment agencies and advertising sales.