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Academic Laboratory

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 trials and fantastic events, within a strong community of colleagues. We welcome your application!

Our Operations

Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology (KKF) is part of the Academic Laboratory business area. We provide highly specialized diagnostics around the clock and offer qualified guidance in chemistry and pharmacology. The department handles approximately 6,500 test tubes per working day. Our analyses are fast, quality-assured, and designed to support healthcare processes as well as promote research and development.

We also provide support to patient-oriented activities within both inpatient and outpatient care, as well as sample collection during office hours at Akademiska sjukhuset and at the laboratory at the Hospital in Enköping. Approximately 140 employees work within KKF, and we strive to be an attractive workplace characterized by professionalism, engagement, and good leadership.

Your Role

As a Biomedical Laboratory Scientist at Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology, you will be offered a qualified and varied job in a high-tech laboratory environment. The duties include independent laboratory work, including pre-analytical work, assessment, and technical approval of analyses. You will have a main focus on one of our specialized analysis laboratories and will primarily work with cell and molecular biological methods, genotyping, and flow cytometry. The role also involves contributing to diagnostics, education, information, and quality assurance within the operations.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a licensed Biomedical Laboratory Scientist. It is meritorious if you have experience of similar tasks from other hospital laboratories. Furthermore, knowledge in sample reception, general chemistry, hematology, and coagulation is meritorious.

You are quality-conscious, work in a structured and careful manner, and have good collaboration skills, a humble attitude, and are happy to share your knowledge. You are flexible, solution-oriented, and thrive in an operation with varying work pace. The job requires that you can quickly get into new tasks and can work both independently and in a group.

Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, is a requirement for the position as the work involves communication, documentation, and quality assurance in Swedish.

Personal suitability, initiative, and the ability to quickly get into the work will be given great importance.

We Offer

Permanent employment 100%, at Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology, Akademiska sjukhuset. Start date according to agreement. Probation period may apply.

With us, you receive benefits that make a difference, read about the benefits here (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/ (https://regionuppsala.se/formaner/)).

After completed training, the role includes daytime shifts (Monday – Friday, 8:00-16:45). When you are settled in the job, there is an opportunity to work on-call hours (evenings and weekends). For regular work during inconvenient working hours, a fixed salary supplement and compensation per inconvenient work shift are paid, in addition to regular OB and overtime compensation.

We warmly welcome your application! For your application to be complete, it must contain:

• A CV and cover letter in Swedish
• Professional license and any other attachments

Employment interviews are conducted continuously even during the application period. Welcome with your application as soon as possible.

Want to know more?

Department Head Hodan Farah: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Department Head Mandana Rostampour: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Union contact person (Naturvetarna or Vårdförbundet) can be reached via the switchboard 018-611 00 00

Want to work with us?

Welcome with your application via the link below.

Read about employment terms and salary setting within Region Uppsala here: Become our new colleague (https://regionuppsala.se/jobb-och-utbildning/bli-var-nya-kollega/)

Region Uppsala values the qualities that equal gender distribution and diversity bring to the operations and welcomes applicants of all genders and with different birth backgrounds, functionalities, and life experiences.

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

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

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