Vacant job

Together we are developing Sahlgrenska University Hospital for a sustainable future. We are transforming healthcare with the goal of becoming Europe's leading university hospital by 2032. Together with our patients, we work for quality, accessibility, patient safety, research, education, and innovation within an integrated healthcare system in the Region of Västra Götaland. Our vision and goals aim for care of the highest quality, where the patient is always in focus. We offer local and regional healthcare, as well as highly specialized care for patients throughout the country and abroad. Our employees are our strength and they contribute to knowledge exchange nationally and internationally. With digital tools and new working methods, we can simplify life at the hospital and offer modern, accessible, and efficient care of the highest quality.

About Us

The Business Area of Medical Technology and Physics (MTF) supports and develops care through expertise in medical physics and medical technology.

Within MTF, the Therapeutic Radiation Physics (TSF) unit is responsible for physics and technology within the radiation therapy operations in the Region of Västra Götaland, with treatment departments in Gothenburg and Borås. We are approximately 50 employees consisting of hospital physicists, dosimetrists, and engineers.

The radiation therapy equipment consists of 13 linear accelerators and 2 afterloading devices with associated calculation and information systems. We also have equipment for X-ray therapy, CT, MRI, positioning systems, as well as modern systems for quality control and treatment planning. In collaboration with other university clinics in Sweden, proton therapy is conducted at the Skandion Clinic in Uppsala. Within the unit, we conduct research and development as well as teaching both within the hospital and at the University of Gothenburg.

About the Position

As a hospital physicist with us, you will become an important part of the radiation therapy operations and contribute to the radiophysical and technical quality of care. The work is varied and includes both patient-facing and development-oriented tasks in close collaboration with other professions in the operation.

The content of the position is shaped based on your competence in combination with the operation's needs. The job content may include, for example, patient-facing work in collaboration with clinical staff, treatment planning and quality assurance of treatments, as well as maintenance and dosimetric controls of equipment. Quality control, method development, and quality work, including risk and incident analysis, may also be included, as well as teaching, supervision, and participation in clinical research.

The main place of work is in Gothenburg, but work in Borås may occur. There is also the possibility to join our team of rotating physicists who together staff a half-time position at the Skandion Clinic.

About You

For the position, you must be a hospital physicist with Swedish licensure. Experience working within radiation therapy is meritorious, and we would like you to have specialist competence in the area. Completed doctoral education is an asset in the role.

It is positive if you have experience with:

• quality work
• process mapping
• deviation management
• risk analysis work
• radiation protection work
• project management
• programming in a radiation therapy context
• teaching and supervision

You will have daily contact with healthcare personnel and external partners, which requires good collaboration and communication skills. We are therefore looking for you who find it easy to collaborate and who contribute to a good work climate. You are meticulous, structured, and responsible, and have a good ability to solve problems and take initiative when needed. You express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

We are working continuously with selection during the application period, please apply today!

We warmly welcome your application!

Meet some of our employees - Sahlgrenska University Hospital

About the Region of Västra Götaland

With us, you become part of a larger whole. We are 56,000 employees in over 200 professions who make a difference in people's lives every day throughout Västra Götaland.

You contribute to secure and equal care as well as to a sustainable society where environment, culture, and good communications create quality of life.

We are in the midst of digital development where you get to help shape future working methods to improve and simplify daily life for residents and operations.

As a permanent employee, you will be war-placed as part of our shared responsibility for ensuring that socially vital functions continue to operate even in a crisis.

Want to know more about us? On our website, you can read more about our benefits and meet employees who make a difference every day and develop in their professions. https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/ (https://www.vgregion.se/jobba-i-vgr/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/)

Application

The Region of Västra Götaland prefers that you register your application via the recruitment system. If you, as an applicant, have questions about the advertised position or for special reasons cannot register your details in a public system, please contact the contact person for the respective advertisement.

To staffing, mediation, and recruitment agencies and to you who are sellers:

We kindly but firmly decline direct contact with staffing, mediation, and recruitment agencies as well as other external actors and sellers of further job advertisements. The Region of Västra Götaland has procured agreements.