Midwife - Maternal Health Care

Description:

Maternal Health Care in southern Kalmar County offers a permanent position as a midwife based at the family center in Torsås. Your mission as a midwife is to contribute to good sexual and reproductive health through promotional and preventive measures and risk identification, and to minimize risks and illness for women and children during pregnancy, childbirth, and infancy. Maternal Health Care services include pregnancy monitoring, contraceptive counseling, gynecological screening, and youth activities. At the clinic, you also conduct youth clinic work where you meet young people and young adults between 13-23 years old. You provide advice and support on matters including sexuality, contraception, and STI testing. Here at Maternal Health Care, we mentor midwifery students and medical students. In your role as a midwife with us, you work independently in continuous professional development, meeting many different types of people. The rewarding aspect of our work is that you follow expecting parents over an extended period, supporting them through pregnancy and into parenthood. With us, you become part of the continuous development work that we consider an integral part of our daily operations. We have regular training days, maternal health care days, and various process groups that you can participate in to develop and improve our work. This is a permanent position with a 75% employment rate, working daytime hours Monday-Friday. Start in fall 2026 or earlier by agreement. Selection and interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis, and the position may be filled before the final application deadline. About You We are looking for someone who wants to work in maternal health care! You are a licensed midwife with prescribing rights. We would consider it an advantage if you have previously worked in maternal health care. Similarly, if you have several years of experience in other departments at a women's clinic. As a midwife, you are confident in your profession and accustomed to making and standing by your own decisions. You discuss and resolve issues with colleagues as a team. You need to be independent in your work while also being able to collaborate with multiple professional categories at the family center, such as nursing assistants, social workers, and educators. We see friendly and empathetic communication as one of your important qualities. You are flexible in your approach and view change and development work as a given. We consider it advantageous if you have training in sexology, motivational interviewing, and have worked with the Cosmic and Obstetrix computer systems. It is beneficial if you speak languages other than Swedish, as we meet people of different nationalities. Since you will be working at both clinics, we require that you have a driver's license. You operate based on the region's values by acting openly, actively, and professionally. For us, work satisfaction and well-being are important. We place great emphasis on personal suitability, as you and your future colleagues are important as a team. Your Future Workplace Our work is characterized by good collaboration within maternal health care together with others at the women's clinic, including both gynecology and obstetrics. We are a medium-sized clinic, which creates the conditions for a familiar atmosphere. Maternal Health Care is part of the Women's Clinic and we work with preventive health efforts for health throughout life. Here in southern Maternal Health Care, we have twelve family centers, which facilitates collaboration between patients and relevant services. We operate at 14 clinics across eight municipalities in southern Kalmar County. Maternal Health Care is one of the leading actors in sexual and reproductive health and public health. The goal of Maternal Health Care is to offer equitable care of high standard. Kalmar Regional Hospital is one of three hospitals in Kalmar County. The hospital is an acute care facility with specialist care, obstetric services, and postpartum care. More than 2,300 people work here to provide good care and high patient safety to the county's residents. Our employees' continuous development work enables us to achieve good results in several different national assessments. The hospital is located close to Kalmar city center and Kalmarsund. Region Kalmar County is responsible for healthcare, dental care, folk high schools, culture, public transportation, and regional development. We are over 7,000 employees working together for a healthier, safer, and more prosperous life for the county's residents. With us, you receive many benefits and one of Sweden's best collective agreements. We meet people at all stages of life and offer meaningful and developing work—every day. Region Kalmar County offers all employees a 100% position. If you work part-time but wish to work full-time, an expansion of your position may be offered at another workplace. We ask that you attach a CV, personal letter, and relevant educational certificates to your application. To ensure quality in the recruitment process at Region Kalmar County, we ask that you apply for the position through our recruitment system and not via email or in paper format. We welcome calls from those interested in the position but decline from those selling advertisements and recruitment services.

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Kalmar

Address

Lasarettsvägen 1, Kalmar

GPS

56.41264, 15.998275copyopen in

Email

[email protected]

Views

6

Published

28. 5. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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