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Palliative Care Unit seeks Specialist Physician for Southern Hälsingland

The Palliative Care Unit is part of the Oncology business area and consists of four teams in Gävleborg working with specialized palliative care. We are a multiprofessional team working together to provide the best possible quality of life for patients and their relatives. Together with your medical colleagues and the rest of the team, you are responsible for palliative care in southern Hälsingland, which involves working in both Bollnäs and Söderhamn, with Bollnäs as the primary workplace. At our unit, we work closely together across team boundaries to create security for both patients and employees. We are looking for you who want to make a difference for patients with incurable diseases. We welcome your application!

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

As a specialist physician with us, you will work, together with the rest of the team, to relieve symptoms, improve quality of life, and provide support to patients with life-threatening illnesses and their relatives. Working hours are daytime Monday to Friday, along with participation in weekend duty (daytime) with telephone on-call availability.

As a specialist physician with us, you will:

• make home visits together with a nurse and/or the team's counselor
• handle medical technical equipment, such as ultrasound, and perform simple procedures at home based on knowledge and competence
• provide telephone advice and information to patients and relatives, and work in close cooperation with home healthcare services
• serve as a consultant to primary care and hospitals as well as the municipality's home healthcare

What We Offer

• personally tailored introduction with an individual development plan
• a job within palliative care where you have good development opportunities, such as the possibility of education in the additional specialty of palliative medicine and research in the field
• opportunity to participate in competence exchange and operational development through joint meetings between the different teams in the county
• work in a secure work group where there is always someone to consult

We collaborate and have internal training within our own unit. There is also the opportunity to participate in the ST course in palliative medicine that we arrange twice a year. We are flexible regarding the extent of the position, and there is an opportunity for shared employment, which gives you the chance to try working within specialized palliative care.

We care about you as an employee and offer benefits that create security, health, and development regardless of where you are in life. Read more about our various benefits on Region Gävleborg's website: Region Gävleborg Benefits (https://www.regiongavleborg.se/jobb-och-utbildning/jobba-i-region-gavleborg/dina-formaner/).

Qualifications

As a person, we see that you have the ability to work independently while thriving in close cooperation with other professions in a varied daily life. You are stimulated by varying tasks and can easily shift focus when the situation requires it. Seeing the whole picture and the context in which each patient and relative find themselves is a large part of our mission.

In the role of specialist physician, you must:

• be a licensed specialist physician with permission to work in Swedish healthcare
• hold a B-driver's license

It is meritorious if you are specialized in palliative medicine.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.

With 7,500 employees, we are the county's largest employer. This gives us the strength to drive development forward for a viable Gävleborg. Our mission is exciting and complex. Regardless of your role here, you help the county's inhabitants and make a difference in society. We are at the forefront of social development and invest in your growth and development as an employee. Here, you get to use your full strength to create the future of Gävleborg together with your colleagues.

The Health and Medical Care Board Administration's approximately 6,500 employees work together to provide the county's inhabitants with the best conditions for an active life with increased quality of life. By providing good and close care throughout the county, we lay the foundation for a strong and healthy Gävleborg.

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