Vacant job

About the job

Welcome to Lycksele – the small town with the big heart.

Here it is easy to be a church and get close to people!

The Southern Lapland Pastorate consists of five parishes, where Lycksele Hospital is located in Lycksele and covers all of Southern Lapland as its catchment area.

Lycksele Hospital is an emergency hospital with an important geographical location centrally in Västerbotten County and has a catchment area of approximately 40,000 inhabitants. The hospital has nearly 600 employees and around 80 care beds. To offer safe and secure care in an area with large geographical distances, the hospital has a developed pre-hospital care with well-trained and experienced staff. The county's ambulance helicopter is based here and performs more than 500 missions per year.

The hospital church work team consists of a hospital chaplain, hospital deacon, and hospital pastor. A cantor is also attached to the operations. The hospital chaplain is the leader for the Church of Sweden's part in the operations and the coordinator for the whole. The hospital church has good relationships with the hospital's staff and management.

We are looking for you, a priest in the Church of Sweden, who has:

• documented further education in pastoral care
• is secure and integrated as a person
• has good collaboration skills and flexibility to meet emerging needs
• has the ability to meet people in different life situations and crises
• has a listening approach and great interest in people
• has pedagogical ability/competence
• has completed the hospital church's competence program in hospital pastoral care
• or other qualified further education in pastoral care and therapy is a merit.

Personal suitability is highly valued!

Your responsibilities

• Pastoral care and crisis support, individually and in groups; patients, relatives, and staff
• Participation in training and supervision of healthcare staff
• Join the hospital's crisis management team, PKL
• Participate in on-call duty and recruit and train colleagues to the on-call team
• Be responsible for sung prayers and music arrangements
• Be a resource in the parish's bereavement group work
• Services and church ceremonies, to some extent.
• be a link to the parishes of the pastorate and support and equip within the areas of pastoral care, spiritual care, and crisis support.

Other

We want you to have a Category B driver's license.

The position is a permanent employment and a probationary period may apply.

Start date by agreement.

Application with usual application documents to us no later than May 4, 2026 to:

Southern Lapland Pastorate, Storgatan 51, 921 32 Lycksele or

[email protected]

Questions about the position?

Contact Bettina Radler, associate priest/leader Lycksele parish 0950-276 63

KyrkA is [email protected]

Vision is [email protected]

SSR is [email protected]