Cardiologist to Trelleborg, Sweden

Southern Sweden welcomes you and your competence. Trelleborg, the southernmost city in Sweden, is centrally located in Northern Europe. After a 50 minutes train ride you reach Copenhagen International Airport and Northern Germany is just a four hour ferry trip away. Winters are mild and summers are pleasant. Trelleborg is surrounded by scenic farmland with picturesque villages, and a coastline with sandy beaches. Within commuting distance you find Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city. The Swedish system is well known for supporting a healthy work/life balance for professionals and a generous social system, including subsidized daycare, free higher education and high quality public healthcare.

Trelleborg Hospital is a small hospital with three specialized internal medicine wards, orthopedic ward, radiology department, several outpatient clinics and an emergency room. The internal medicine wards specialize in endocrinology, cardiology, neurology and pulmonary medicine and have a total of 55 beds. In addition we plan to start a new ward at the end of year 2017 which is intended for elderly patients with multiple diseases. Here, we are also going to focus on new organizational and digitizing solutions and optimization of staff resources.

To maintain an excellent quality of care in our cardiology wards and outpatient clinic, we are now hiring cardiologists.

Job description

You will work in patient-centered teams both at our outpatient clinic and at our cardiology ward. In addition, you will perform echocardiography, exercise ECG, electrical cardioversion and interpret Holter recordings. As a senior colleague, you will participate in emergence duty/on call. We put emphasis on having staff with the highest possible competence. Therefore we have a continuous focus on education and we encourage our staff to participate in relevant courses as well as in national and international conferences. As a specialist in cardiology, you will also be involved in teaching medical students, junior doctors, colleagues from other specialties and other staff members. In Trelleborg, we aim to work as a multiprofessional team with focus on the patient!

Qualifications

We are looking for cardiologists with EU approved certification, preferably with double specialization (internal medicine and cardiology). To start the position, you are required to master Swedish corresponding to the European standard of C1. For suitable candidates we will provide Swedish classes, possibly initially in your home country, followed by more advanced classes upon arrival in Sweden. To succeed in this position you need excellent teamwork, communication and problem solving skills. We assume you are hardworking and like to work in a dynamic environment where you are able to make an important contribution to our patients’ care.

Send your CV to: health@arbetsformedlingen.se

Write in the subject line: “Trellborg, Sweden April 2017”