Family Doctors - Sweden

🟥 Job opportunity for Family medicine specialists in Central-Sweden

➡️ Family Medicine
Health Centres in Central-Sweden

♦️ Requirements for education

Specialist certificate in Family Medicine from within EU or recognized speciality plus minimum 3 years’ experience as a specialist in any EU-country.
Required experience
Some experience as a specialist would be advantageous.

♦️ Place of work

Different health-centres of Central-Sweden

♦️ Planned date of employment

By agreement.

Healthcare system at the location

The region’s vision is; life, health and sustainable development. The region contributes to a good quality of life for the county’s residents through healthcare that is provided with high quality and is efficient, as well as efforts for growth, education, culture and research.

The county comprises seven municipalities. Primary care is the basis of healthcare and an important prerequisite for providing security to the county’s residents.
Healthcare system includes 31 healthcare centers (2024) and three hospitals.

Primary care’s mission is to offer the county’s residents good healthcare with high quality and on equal terms.

At the location there are three local healthcare areas; south, west and north where local collaboration takes place within/between the municipality, primary care and specialist care.

Together we work to create a coherent care chain for the growing patient groups of chronic and multi-ill patients. Local healthcare area Väster has a hospital, five regionally run health centres and a lifestyle medicine provider. The area includes the two municipalities.

We have fun together and here we help each other with the daily work. We have a happy and open climate and we look out for the best interests of each patient. Right now, the focus is on primary care doctors in our area, local healthcare area west. And we want more people to choose a regular service.

With a targeted doctor investment towards our western area, we aim to have a list of 1100 patients for permanently employed doctors in primary care based on the National Board of Health and Welfare’s benchmark. As a workplace, we are solution-focused and we value good teamwork, a responsive and humble approach and a commitment to development.

♦️ About Primary care in the region

The health centres have a broad mission:

- General medical services
- Psychosocial services
- Child health care
- Maternal health care
- Medical foot care
- Rehabilitation/habilitation services
- Dietitian services
- On-call services
Physician participation in municipal health care

♦️ The mission includes:

- first-line health care with planned and unplanned care in the form of investigation, diagnostics,
- treatment, counselling and follow-up
- treatment and follow-up of chronic diseases
- early health care interventions and rehabilitation
- health promotion and disease prevention interventions
- immediate assessment and treatment of medical conditions that require acute medical
- care and that do not require hospital care

To succeed in the role, we believe that you have these personal qualities:

- Personal maturity
- Ability to collaborate
- Flexible
- Communicative.

Having a driver’s licence is required.

♦️ Salary
By agreement.

Generally, a specialist having licence to practice in Sweden, with proper skills in Swedish and with ability for being able to work independently (strong C1-level) earns 90-95.000 SEK (around 8.000-8.500 EUR).

A consultant may earn above 100.000 SEK (even 9.000 EUR or more).

However, during the introductory period and until you will not be able to work independently and will not have solid language skills, the salary temporarily will be lower.

♦️ Services offered by the employer and Partners

- During the personal visit which is part of the interview process, the cost of travel and accommodation is financed by the Employer our Partners
- 6-7 months long, free Swedish course, financial support during the course (the amount is topic of negotiation)
- Free language education for family members (spouses and school-aged children) on basic level, or to C1 level for spouses who are also healthcare staff
- Assistance in the application for Swedish license to practice, supervision of the process
- 40 hours long free Swedish legal and social training
Integration assistance (assistance in registering at tax authority, opening bank account, etc.)
- Assistance in finding school/kindergarten for the children
- Assistance in the organization of moving and in apartment-seeking

Extra benefits:

In this region, one can receive further benefits, too. These are means-tested benefits, so it is individually judged which benefit can be received (none, one of them or both) for an individual.

- In connection with moving from another location, a reasonable relocation allowance can be issued. The region pays a moving company after having received at least 2-3 different quotes from different moving companies from which the region will choose the one it will pay.

- Start-up grants also can be issued up to SEK 40,000 (excluding social security contributions). The grant is paid out in four instalments during a two-years’ period. A repayment obligation will be regulated in a contract, in the event that the employment period set in the Guarantee of Employment will not be completed.

If you are interested, please send your detailed professional CV and other necessary documents as soon as possible to
cv@brainsconsulting.ro