Job Description

ABOUT THE REGION

Värmland, located in west-central Sweden, offers a beautiful natural landscape with forests, lakes, and rolling countryside for outdoor enthusiasts. The region is between Stockholm and Oslo, offering a peaceful and scenic environment while still being accessible to city life. Värmland has a rich cultural heritage, with traditional festivals such as the "Värmland Rune Singer Festival" taking place throughout the year, allowing residents to learn about and experience traditional Swedish culture.

Region Värmland manages three hospitals in Karlstad, Arvika, and Torsby and provides a variety of specialist clinics. The organization has a robust healthcare workforce comprising approximately 700 doctors, 2,200 nurses, and 1,200 nursing assistants. The organization is seeking medical specialists across various specialities and is a major employer in Värmland, with a workforce of over 7,400 employees. It operates 20 health centres that offer primary care and maternal and child health services.

ABOUT PRIMARY CENTERS 

Swedish healthcare, including that in Värmland, is known for its high quality and adherence to strict regulations and quality standards. The healthcare system is designed to provide equal access to healthcare services for all residents. Like the rest of Sweden, Värmland has a publicly funded healthcare system. This means that healthcare services are funded by taxes and are generally accessible to all residents, regardless of their income or insurance status. Swedish primary health care is today expected to apply knowledge-based care, which requires continuous ability development, where methods shown to be less effective are replaced with better ones. An important part of the general medicine specialist’s work is systematic quality development and self-training based on their operations.

An average Swedish general medicine specialist’s work includes giving priority on the basis of medical urgency. Switching between short acute visits, longer dialogues and home visits, and monitoring over a long period of time an individual's various health problems as well as assessing and taking into account the person's entire living situation. At general medicine clinics there is usually equipment for minor surgery and various types of examinations, which in many other countries are carried out in hospitals or specialist clinics. Adequate referral to other specialists is therefore only referrals for issues in which special equipment is required or in an unusual or difficult-to-treat condition, in which another specialist is necessary.

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES  

The primary care's mission is growing and changing. There is an exciting future ahead, where the focus should be more on easily accessible care, smart digital solutions and care close to the patient. The aim is to offer the best possible care to participating patients and as well as protecting a good working environment for all employees.

At the primary care centres the patients are offered assessment, investigation, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation to varying extents depending on the disease and symptoms.

The health center offers care at different levels in all stages of life. The health centers in the northern Värmland have a sparsely populated area mission. An assignment which means that they primarily receive most people who apply for an assessment and/or emergency interventions. The task thus becomes more interesting, more developing and more rewarding.

What's expected of you

To be a specialist in Family Medicine. 
To be able to complete the intensive Swedish language course, which is part of the MediCarrera program. 

MEDICARRERA OFFERS

A free visit to see the place where you will live and work and meet future colleagues.
A free preparation and intensive language course.
A free intensive language course for partners and children in school age. Kindergarten for the youngest.
Free apartment at the course location for you and your family, all costs covered.
A scholarship for the intensive language course of 1000 € monthly.  

OUR SUPPORT

We find you a place to live and help to register your children in a school or kindergarten.
We help you with practical matters, such as social security number, medical card, bank accounts, etc.
We help your spouse with sources for job search.
We contact the moving company and arrange the moving trip.
You receive an information package with practical details and a contact person to call in case of any problems. 

Basic Requirements

*To be a specialist doctor/nurse/dentist with at least 2-3 years of experience and graduated from an EU university.

* To be an EU citizen or have an EU Long-term residence permit.

In case you are not an EU citizen:

* Your diploma has to be homologated in one of the EU countries.