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Do you want to contribute to strengthening legal certainty? At the National Board of Forensic Medicine (RMV), experts within forensic medicine, forensic chemistry, forensic genetics, and forensic psychiatry collaborate to provide the judicial system with the answers it needs. Every detail can be crucial, and whether you work directly with analyses and investigations or in a supporting role, you contribute to a legally secure society.

We are now looking for a Forensic Medicine Assistant for the forensic medicine unit in Lund. The unit consists of approximately 25 people who work together to perform forensic autopsies and issue forensic certificates.

Your Role

As a Forensic Medicine Assistant (autopsy technician), your work is primarily practical, involving preparing for and assisting with forensic autopsies, preparing the deceased, handling samples and CT scans, and participating in the unit's mortuary operations. Contributing practically to the tissue donation activities conducted at the unit is also part of the job, as is active participation in quality improvement work. Within the scope of your duties, you may also have contact with external parties such as the police and funeral contractors.

Other tasks within the scope of the unit's and department's mission may also occur.

Qualifications

• Nursing education (undersköterska), or equivalent education assessed by the employer as comparable.
• Current work experience that the employer considers relevant for the position.
• Good knowledge of Swedish in both speech and writing.

Merits

• Documented course/training in anatomy.
• Current experience with autopsy activities.
• Experience with tissue donation.

Personal Attributes and Skills

The nature of the work requires a high degree of quality awareness and precision in all tasks, as well as good collaboration skills, as autopsy activities are carried out in close cooperation with other colleagues. You are expected to be a calm and stable person, sensitive to both the needs of the operation and your colleagues, and to contribute to a good work climate. The work is psychologically demanding as death investigations generally involve difficult events. To handle the strains of the work, high integrity, personal maturity, and an ethical approach are required.

The work involves both fine motor and physically demanding tasks, which places demands on good physical health.

We place great emphasis on your personal attributes.

Employment

The employment is permanent and full-time. Start date is by agreement. Location is at the forensic medicine unit in Lund. The National Board of Forensic Medicine applies individual salary setting. Since the agency's units are located in different places in Sweden, business travel may occur.

RMV is part of the chain of justice, and we have high demands on employees' judgment and security awareness, as well as respect for law and order. As a representative of the National Board of Forensic Medicine, you follow the government's values and contribute through your actions to legal certainty, legal security, and trust in the agency.

In some of our recruitment processes, a background check is conducted. We apply a competency-based recruitment process where work psychological tests, knowledge tests, or work samples may occur. Prior to the employment of licensed health care personnel, checks are made with the National Board of Health and Welfare and the Inspectorate for Care and Services.

In connection with employment at the National Board of Forensic Medicine, there may be an obligation to be placed on the war establishment (krigsplacering).

Do you also want to contribute to a legally secure society?

We welcome your application by June 21, 2026. Certificates and other documents should be brought to any potential interview.

The National Board of Forensic Medicine values a recruitment process free from discrimination and strives to provide equal opportunities for all.

Want to know more?

For more information, please contact Sara Winlund, tel: +46 10-483 49 47.

Our union representatives can be reached via our switchboard at tel: +46 10-483 41 00. Union representatives for Saco are Maritha Torkildsen Nilsson, for ST/OFR Selma El Hadi, and for Seko Christer Johansson.

Take a look at our benefits:

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We are the medical link in the chain of justice. Here, forensic doctors, investigators, forensic medicine assistants, biomedical analysts, administrators, and many others work on behalf of, among others, the police, prosecutors, and courts.

Here you can meet some of our employees:

Meet our employees (https://www.rmv.se/om-oss/jobba-hos-oss/vara-medarbetare/)

The Department of Forensic Medicine performs approximately 5,500 forensic autopsies annually on behalf of the police and prosecutors. We also examine suspected perpetrators and victims of violent crimes. Within the Department of Forensic Medicine, there are six forensic medicine units located in Umeå, Uppsala, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Linköping, and Lund.

This is what we do:

Read more about our operations (https://www.rmv.se/verksamheter/rattsmedicin/)