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Do you want to work in a role where you can make a real difference to the health and well-being of children and young people, while enjoying variety in your daily work?

As a school doctor in the municipalities of Leksand and Gagnef, you will become an important part of the student health services. Here, you work closely with other school professionals, focusing on creating conditions for students to feel good, develop, and achieve their goals.

Together, we contribute to a school environment characterized by security in everyday life, meaningfulness in the mission, and pride in the work we do together.

Highlights of the job:

• A meaningful assignment where you contribute to the health, development, and future of children and young people
• A varied role involving work at the individual, group, and organizational levels
• Close collaboration within a multidisciplinary team in student health services
• Opportunity to combine independent work with collaboration with other actors

Your responsibilities

You meet with students from preschool class to upper secondary school for assessment and decision-making, including regarding the need for referral for investigation of medical and psychiatric conditions, as well as developmental deviations/function variations. You also participate in student cases together with other collaborating actors such as Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (BUP), Habilitation Services (HAB), Social Services, or Primary Health Care Centers. The assignment is carried out in close collaboration with our other employees within each municipality's student health team.

Main responsibilities:

• Conduct medical assessments in individual student cases
• Provide consultative support to school nurses, psychologists, counselors, and special education teachers
• Participate in student health teams (SHT) as needed
• Contribute to multidisciplinary investigations prior to decisions on special support or placement in adapted school forms
• Issue medical statements (e.g., prior to placement in adapted schools according to Chapter 7, Section 5 of the Education Act)
• Participate in establishing and developing routines within the Student Health Services (EMI)
• Participate in quality work as well as follow-up and development of the operations
• Contribute medical expertise to work on mental health, school attendance, and lifestyle habits
• Be responsible for medical guidelines together with the medically responsible school nurse and operations manager

Work methods:

• The work is performed independently but in close collaboration with student health professionals
• Participation takes place at scheduled clinics, SHT meetings, and as needed within the organization.

This is a part-time position where the work is divided between the municipalities of Leksand and Gagnef, with 25% in Leksand and 15% in Gagnef. Working hours are planned in dialogue based on the needs of the operations.

Your profile

• You are a licensed physician with specialist training in general practice, pediatrics, or child and adolescent psychiatry.
• An additional specialization in school health care is meritorious.
• You have in-depth medical knowledge in areas such as growth, development, endocrinology, mental health, specific school difficulties, long-term illnesses and disabilities in school, vaccinations and infection control, and health promotion work.
• Basic computer skills are required, as well as a B-driver's license and access to your own car, as the work is located at several schools in the two municipalities.

Your abilities, skills, and attitude are highly valued, as you need to be able to handle children with different needs. It is important that you are pedagogical, meticulous, empathetic, trustworthy, have good collaboration skills, and always prioritize our students' best interests - in everything you do.

We place great importance on your personal profile in this recruitment process.

About the workplace

The position is located in Leksand Municipality and is part of the Student Health Services (EMI), together with the principal, school nurse, school psychologist, counselor, and special education teacher. Your direct manager is the Head of Student Health.

We offer you

For us, it is important that all our employees feel secure in their employment and have an increased quality of life by working in the municipality. If we succeed in this, there are good conditions for also succeeding in our common task, which is:

We do what we should by taking joint responsibility for our democratic mission, using our resources wisely, and always keeping the focus on those we are here for.

We do it well and are proud of our work and the results we achieve, and we welcome engaged and courageous employees who want to develop and improve together with us.

We do it together by collaborating and learning from each other. Dialogue is important to us, and we find new solutions together with those we are here for, with trust, care, and respect.

We strive for a health-promoting work climate, job satisfaction, community, and personal development. Competence development is a given, and we encourage our employees to further develop themselves through courses, training, and networking.

On our website, we have gathered information about what it is like to work with us. For more information, please see https://leksand.se/jobba-hos-oss

For you as an applicant, we have the possibility to offer relocation services, see further http://www.rekryteringslots.se

Your application

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Leksand Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link. The application documents consist of a CV and a cover letter.

Identification to verify your identity must be presented during a potential interview. This is standard in all our recruitment processes.

Please note that this position is subject to a background check.

The type of check performed depends on the content and responsibilities of the position. You will receive information about this in connection with the recruitment process.

The application deadline is August 7, 2026

Appointment will be made after agreement, and we review CVs continuously, so it is good if you send in your application as soon as possible.

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