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About the Student Health Service

The Student Health Service in Smedjebacken Municipality supports the municipality's six primary school units and consists of medical, psychosocial, psychological, and social pedagogical competencies. Together, we work to promote students' health, learning, development, and attendance. The team includes three school nurses, three counselors, and two social pedagogues, one of whom works within the framework of a three-year project focused on school attendance. The school nurses are responsible for health talks, vaccinations, and medical follow-ups. The counselors contribute psychosocial competence and conversation support, while the social pedagogues work specifically to support student attendance and strengthen collaboration between school, student, and home.

As a school doctor, you will become an important part of the Student Health Service's medical effort. You will function as medical support for the school nurses and contribute with medical assessments, counseling, and collaboration in matters concerning students' health and schooling. The position is 10% of a full-time role. The Student Health Service is led by the Business Manager for Student Health, who also holds the role of school psychologist.

Job Responsibilities

As a school doctor, you contribute medical competence to the Student Health Service's medical effort. The assignment takes place in close collaboration with the school nurses and the rest of the Student Health Service. The assignment includes, among other things:

• performing medical assessments during Individual Educational Plans (IEP) investigations and prior to ADHD/Autism spectrum disorder investigations
• conducting growth, puberty, back, and other somatic assessments
• assessing medical issues in cases of school absence
• assessing and, if necessary, referring students with overweight/obesity
• handling vaccination issues and planning vaccinations outside the regular child vaccination program
• assessing the need for referral in cases such as scoliosis, hearing impairment, growth deviation, puberty deviation, or suspected medical/genetic cause of learning difficulties
• providing medical support to the school nurses in their ongoing work
• participating in Student Health Teams (EHT), collaboration meetings, or other student health forums as needed
• providing counseling or internal training to Student Health Service staff and school staff
• collaborating with, for example, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUP), habilitation, health centers, social services, and other relevant actors

You are responsible for ensuring that your medical assessments are carried out in a patient-safe, professional, and documented manner. The assignment is primarily consultative, evaluative, and supportive, with a focus on contributing to students' health, development, and ability to manage their schooling.

Qualifications

For the position, you must:

• be a licensed physician with the right to work as a doctor in Sweden
• have good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing
• be able to perform medical assessments, document, and refer in a patient-safe manner
• be well acquainted with healthcare regulations, confidentiality, and patient safety
• be able to work consultatively and collaborate with school nurses, Student Health Service, principals, and external care and support actors
• hold a valid driver's license (Category B)

Meritorious:

• experience working as a school doctor
• experience with the medical effort of the Student Health Service
• experience in other work with children and young people
• specialist competence in child and adolescent medicine, general practice, school health care, or other relevant medical field
• experience with medical assessments related to IEP investigations, ADHD/Autism spectrum disorder, school absence, growth, puberty, overweight/obesity, or vaccinations
• experience in consultative work towards school nurses, Student Health Service, or other professions
• experience collaborating with, for example, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (BUP), habilitation, health centers, social services, or other actors
• knowledge of the school's mission and how medical factors can affect students' learning, attendance, and development

Personal Qualities

We are looking for someone who is confident in their profession and has a good ability to work independently, structured, and patient-safely. You can prioritize and give clear advice based on the needs of the Student Health Service and the school.

The role requires good collaboration skills and a consultative working method. You easily build trust in meetings with children, young people, guardians, and staff. We appreciate that you are receptive, analytical, and solution-oriented, and can contribute a medical perspective in the context of the school.

Since the assignment is limited in scope but involves several schools, you need to be flexible and clear in your working method.

What We Offer

We offer a part-time employment as a school doctor at 10%. The work takes place during daytime and does not involve night, weekend, or on-call duties. You work in close collaboration with school nurses, the rest of the Student Health Service, and the schools' student health teams.

Salary and start date are agreed upon. A valid extract from the criminal record register is required prior to employment.

We offer a workplace in a welcoming municipality with engagement, security, and optimism for the future. We believe in dialogue as a tool for development and value short decision-making paths and a non-hierarchical approach. On smedjebacken.se, you can read more about the benefits we offer.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

In connection with the job offer, the candidate offered the position will need to prove their citizenship. This can be done with a passport or alternatively a certificate of personal status together with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must show that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the obligation to have a work permit. Employment can only take place after verification of the work permit, which is required according to the Aliens Ordinance.

We kindly but firmly decline all contact with advertisers and staffing agencies in the recruitment process as the selection of recruitment channels has already been determined for this recruitment.

Read more on smedjebacken.se (https://smedjebacken.se) about how we handle your personal data according to GDPR. All recruitment takes place digitally and via our external link to the recruitment system Webcruiter. If you have problems registering your CV, please contact Webcruiter support. If you have protected personal data, contact the personnel department through the municipality's switchboard to get help with your application.

Contact Information

Per Eisen, Business Developer/Deputy Principal, +46 0240660109

Workplace

Vasagatan 14
777 81 Smedjebacken

Important Information:

Employer: Smedjebacken Municipality
Ref.no: 5140683259
Position extent: 10%
Permanent position
Last application date: 2026-06-26