General Practitioner (Specialist) at Backe Health Centre

Backe Health Centre is a smaller unit with approximately 1,200 registered patients, providing excellent conditions for long-term patient relationships, continuity of care, and medical quality.

The medical team is currently being built up, meaning you will have significant opportunities to shape your working methods, priorities, and development. At the same time, you will have access to medical colleagues at Strömsund Health Centre, where the primary care ward NÄVA is also located.

As a specialist in general practice, you will have a broad and varied role, with the opportunity to work closely with both patients and the team.

At our workplace, you will find an environment characterized by:

• Collaboration across professional boundaries
• Involvement and trust
• Respect for medical competence and judgment
• We value both experience and engagement, believing in leadership that gives doctors room to influence and develop the business. Here you will find colleagues with both breadth and specialization, and a desire to work together.

Primary Care in Region Jämtland Härjedalen is part of the Division for Close Care, where primary care, ambulance services, psychiatry, and public dental care collaborate. This provides good conditions for cohesive care, short decision-making paths, and professional dialogue between operations.

Since 2022, primary care and ambulance services have been integrated – an important step in the work towards good and close care, where patient needs drive the organization of care.

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Job Description

As a District Doctor (General Practitioner) with us, you will work broadly within primary care, assessing, investigating, treating, and advising patients with varying symptoms and medical issues. The role covers both acute and planned patient contacts and is characterized by a holistic perspective on patient needs.

The work also includes health promotion and preventive measures, both individually and in groups, as well as close collaboration with other professions at the health centre. Duties within Child Health Services (BVC) and medical responsibility for special housing will be included.

You work evidence-based and use varied working methods, including individual patient meetings, group activities, and digital contacts via the internet, with the goal of offering accessible, good, and close care.

The working conditions are designed to be sustainable over time. On-call and standby duties are included approximately once a month and are based at Strömsund Health Centre. There is an opportunity for remote work for administrative parts and flexibility in scheduling that can be adapted to the needs of the operation and your life situation. The ambition is clear: this should be a job that is sustainable to carry out for many years.

For those with extensive experience and an interest in contributing beyond the clinical field, there are good opportunities to take on greater responsibility. This could involve supervising ST-doctors (specialist trainees) or medical leadership responsibilities.

Parallel to this, a long-term development project regarding rural healthcare in Strömsund Municipality is underway, currently being formalized and planned to span several years. Here there is room for strategic thinking and profession-proximate development where your experience can truly make a difference.

Qualifications

You must have Swedish licensure and be a specialist in general practice. As we work in a rural area, a driver's license is advantageous.

Personal Attributes

We work with good and close care, and you are someone who wants to continue our work to be a welcoming health centre for both patients, partners, and colleagues. You are proactive, want to drive development and change, and are naturally reliable.

Employment Type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.

Primary Care is a healthcare unit within the Region's Health and Medical Care Administration, where higher education for medical degrees and research are conducted. This means that all applicants undergo expert review by the R&D manager prior to any employment. In light of this, the application must include the following documents:

• A structured CV
• Certificate of medical degree from the university or universities where the doctor completed their basic education. This applies to doctors trained in other EU countries and outside the EU.
• Licensure certificate from the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen).
• Specialist competence certificate from the National Board of Health and Welfare.
• Documented supervisor training
• If applicable, current certificate of academic degree, e.g., Doctor of Medicine or Docent, as well as date of defense and title of the thesis.
• If applicable, a complete updated publication list.
• Certificate/documentation of teaching experience and possibly other pedagogical merits.
• Any additional documented merits regarding, for example, clinical knowledge/experience, clinical development work, leadership experience, and anything else the applicant wishes to highlight as meritorious for the sought position.

Verification of medical licensure and specialist certificates will be conducted via IVO and HOSP.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Region Jämtland Härjedalen and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally and not via email or in paper format.

We have made our choice regarding recruitment and therefore kindly but firmly decline contact with advertising salespeople or other sellers of recruitment services.

Environment and Lifestyle

Life outside of work is a crucial factor for many at this stage of their career. Backe offers a tranquility that is hard to find in larger contexts. Here you are close to hunting, fishing, cross-country skiing, and sparsely populated mountains, with short daily distances and low stress. At the same time, there is proximity to Strömsund, Junsele, Ramsele, and Hoting, and the possibility of longer commuting to both Östersund and Umeå.

This is a position for you who are secure in your specialist role, who value continuity, the whole picture, and professional autonomy, and who see the conditions of rural areas as an opportunity rather than a limitation. Backe Health Centre offers a context where your experience is not only in demand, but needed.

Backe Health Centre for you who want to work with your full experience and have the space to use it.