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Senior Consultant/Specialist Physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Umeå

REGION VÄSTERBOTTEN

Västerbottens län, Umeå

Previous experience is desired

20 days left
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Region Västerbotten works to ensure that good health and sustainable development strengthen each other. We take responsibility for an equitable welfare system and for ensuring that research and innovation yield results.

The Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology (CFOG) Västerbotten is a county organization with a total of approximately 250 employees, where units at the county's three hospitals are included and collaborate. CFOG is a University Hospital unit and conducts research in collaboration with Umeå University.

CFOG has a working method characterized by county-wide process orientation, and the hospitals in the county jointly ensure that people in Västerbotten have access to specialist maternity care, delivery, neonatal care, neonatal home care, gynecological outpatient clinic, gynecological surgery, tumor surgery, and robotic surgery.

CFOG is now seeking a Senior Consultant or Specialist Physician with on-call competence for Umeå.

The unit performs approximately 1,800 deliveries per year and is also the center for prematurity from week 22 in the entire northern healthcare region. It also houses a Gynecological Outpatient Clinic, which is a university clinic with teaching responsibilities.

Umeå as a city offers a rich leisure life and is close to everything. If you want to live in a growing university city with a vibrant cultural life that is also close to both winter and summer activities, Umeå is hard to beat.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Senior Consultant/Specialist Physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology with us, you contribute knowledge and commitment that make people feel secure.

You primarily work with patient responsibility, which means you are responsible for medical investigations, assessments, and treatments of patients. You work in teams consisting of knowledgeable colleagues, providing opportunities for continuous knowledge and experience exchange.

As a Senior Consultant/Specialist Physician with on-call competence, you have significant responsibility for the supervision and support of Specialty Training (ST) physicians as well as specialists. You also lead the medical work at the clinic through collaboration within the medical group. We work with job rotation, which means our physicians can serve on more than one department within the unit.

We offer a varied job where you have the prerequisites to influence the direction of the operations depending on interest, experience, and competence. You are expected to drive and participate in change and improvement work where patient flows and processes are in focus. You are active in the education of students and future specialists.

The role also includes administrative work and on-call duties. Travel within the county may be included.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who are a Specialist Physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology with good clinical knowledge in all parts of the specialty, where you have worked as a specialist in the area for at least 5 years. You work today, or have worked, as an on-call physician within Swedish women's healthcare.

If you meet Region Västerbotten's Senior Consultant standards, this is seen as positive.

Furthermore, we also consider personal suitability, where we seek you who are positive, find it easy to collaborate, are clear when communicating, and have the courage to approach people and create trust. We believe you are confident in yourself and have the ability to adapt when needed. You handle stressful situations well and have the ability to independently structure your work.

Verification of medical license and all relevant specialist certificates via the National Board of Health and Welfare (HOSP) as well as information retrieval from IVO will take place when the application is received.

Employment type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent, start date: According to agreement. The position is full- or part-time according to preference. However, at least 75%.
Working hours: Schedule.

If your merits have not been professionally assessed previously, this must be done before commencement in accordance with Ordinance (1998:1518) on eligibility for certain positions within health and social care, etc.

Therefore, the following documentation must be attached to your application:

  1. Scientific merits (if applicable)
    • Certificate of academic degree, e.g., Doctor of Medicine or Docent
    • Complete publication list
  2. Pedagogical merits (if applicable)
    • Certificate/documentation of teaching experience
    • Certificate of supervisor course (basic or specialist training)
  3. Clinical and other merits (if applicable)
    • Certificate of sub-specialization
    • Certificate/documentation of leadership roles and/or operational development

Read more about our benefits for you who work with us on the website https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner (https://www.regionvasterbotten.se/nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss/formaner)

We strive for an even gender distribution and see diversity as a strength, and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds.

In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.

If you have a protected identity and wish to apply, you contact the recruiting manager and then send your application documents via post.

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