Leadership and Support Functions at Akademiska Sjukhuset

We are Akademiska Sjukhuset – one of Sweden's leading university hospitals. As a county hospital and provider of highly specialized care, we offer healthcare to two million people in Central Sweden. Something is always happening here – a new life is born, a grandmother undergoes surgery, a colleague is hailed as a hero. Here, you will experience both tough challenges and fantastic moments, within a strong community of colleagues. We welcome your application!

Our Operations

Care Administrative Service (VAS) is a hospital-wide organization where medical secretaries, administrators, and receptionists provide administrative support to all departments within the hospital. This means you will become an important part of the care chain at one of Sweden's largest university hospitals, characterized by high competence, specialized care, patient choice, and a vast breadth of services.

We are currently seeking summer substitutes!

Your Role

At our facility, tasks are varied with a focus on care administration. As a medical secretary, you contribute to a well-functioning care chain for our patients. We work together to maintain a structured and efficient care administrative organization with the patient always in focus.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for you who are studying or have completed a recognized education in Health and Social Care Administration, or equivalent training for medical secretaries, or alternatively, if you are a medical student. You must have excellent knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written, as well as in medical terminology. Furthermore, you should have good IT skills in a Windows environment. Previous experience with the Cosmic system is considered an advantage.

Your Competencies

To work as a medical secretary with us, a high sense of responsibility and attention to detail are required to ensure that patient administration functions in a patient-safe manner. To succeed in your role, we see that you can collaborate well with all professional categories and have a good ability to adapt to new conditions and situations. In pressurized situations, you easily adjust and prioritize work based on the hospital's needs.

Your sense of service, commitment, and positive attitude contribute to a good work climate, where we all help each other and collaborate to achieve the best care quality for our patients.

What We Offer

It is important to us that you get a good start in your work, which is why we provide you with an introduction tailored to your experiences and needs.

We offer you a summer substitute position, ranging from 5–10 weeks at one of our clinics, emergency departments, information desks, or receptions. The more weeks you can work this summer, the more advantageous it is, preferably consecutively.

For employment at our emergency departments, working hours are scheduled for day and evening, weekdays/weekends, or alternatively night shifts on weekdays/weekends. Other clinics and information desks have working hours scheduled during office hours, Monday–Friday.

Interviews and appointments are conducted on an ongoing basis. Start date by agreement.

Read more about us on our website, welcome there! Care Administrative Service (VAS) (http://www.akademiska.se/vas)

At our workplace, you receive benefits that make a difference. Read about the benefits here: Region Uppsala Benefits (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/).

Want to know more?

Feel free to contact us at:

• Madeleine Jonasson, Group Manager VAS, 018-617 23 09 or [email protected]
• Annki Ingvarsdotter, Group Manager VAS, 018-611 98 78 or [email protected]

Union Contact Persons (Vision):

• Fanny Jörgensen, 018-617 26 84 or [email protected]
• Maria Wibeck, 018-617 19 56 or [email protected]

Do you want to work with us?

Please submit your application via the link below. Recruitment may take place on an ongoing basis during the application period.

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, functionalities, and life experiences.

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

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

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