School Physician

Description:

Welcome to Smedjebacken Municipality Our strengths are unpretentiousness, dialogue, and short decision-making processes. As an employee with us, you become an important community builder who makes a difference. Our values are based on welcoming, commitment, security, and faith in the future. Smedjebacken offers a good quality of life with proximity, community organizations, engagement, and living traditions. About Student Health Services Student health services in Smedjebacken Municipality supports the municipality's six primary school units and consists of medical, psychosocial, psychological, and sociopedagogical competencies. Together we work to promote students' health, learning, development, and attendance. The working group includes three school nurses, three student counselors, and two sociopedagogues, one of whom works within a three-year project focused on school attendance. School nurses are responsible for health consultations, vaccinations, and medical follow-ups. Student counselors contribute psychosocial competence and counseling support, while sociopedagogues work particularly to support student attendance and strengthen collaboration between school, student, and home. As a school physician, you become an important part of student health services' medical efforts. You serve as medical support to the school nurses and contribute with medical assessments, advice, and collaboration on matters concerning students' health and schooling. The position is 10%. Student health services are led by the operations manager for student health services, who also serves as school psychologist. Responsibilities As a school physician, you contribute medical expertise within student health services' medical efforts. The assignment is carried out in close collaboration with school nurses and the rest of student health services. The assignment includes, among other things: making medical assessments for special needs evaluations and before psychological/neuropsychological evaluations performing growth, puberty, back, and other somatic assessments assessing medical issues related to school absences assessing and, if needed, referring students with overweight/obesity handling vaccination matters and planning vaccinations outside the regular childhood vaccination program assessing need for referral in cases such as scoliosis, hearing impairment, growth deviation, puberty deviation, or suspected medical/genetic causes of learning difficulties providing medical support to school nurses in ongoing work participating in multidisciplinary team meetings, collaboration meetings, or other student health forums when needed contributing advice or in-house training to student health personnel and school staff coordinating with, for example, child and adolescent psychiatric services, habilitation services, health centers, social services, and other relevant actors You are responsible for ensuring that your medical assessments are conducted in a patient-safe, professional, and documented manner. The assignment is primarily consultative, evaluative, and supportive, with a focus on contributing to students' health, development, and ability to manage their schooling. Qualifications The position requires that you: are a licensed physician with authorization to work as a physician in Sweden have good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written can perform medical assessments, document, and refer in a patient-safe manner are well versed in healthcare regulations, confidentiality, and patient safety can work consultatively and collaborate with school nurses, student health services, principals, and external healthcare and support providers have a driver's license (category B) Meritorious: experience working as a school physician experience with student health services' medical efforts experience working with children and young people specialist competence in pediatrics and adolescent medicine, general medicine, school health, or other relevant medical field experience with medical assessments related to special needs evaluations, psychological/neuropsychological evaluations, school absences, growth, puberty, overweight/obesity, or vaccinations experience with consultative work with school nurses, student health services, or other professionals experience collaborating with, for example, child and adolescent psychiatric services, habilitation services, health centers, social services, or other actors knowledge of the school's mission and how medical factors can affect students' learning, attendance, and development Personal Qualities We are looking for someone who is confident in their profession and has a strong ability to work independently, in an organized manner, and with patient safety in mind. You can prioritize and provide clear advice based on student health services' and the school's needs. The role requires good collaboration skills and a consultative working approach. You have an easy time building trust in interactions with children, young people, guardians, and staff. We appreciate if you are attentive, analytical, and solution-oriented and can contribute a medical perspective in the school context. Since the assignment is limited in scope but involves several schools, you need to be flexible and clear in your working approach. We Offer We offer a part-time position as a school physician covering 10%. The work takes place during daytime and does not involve night shifts, weekend work, or on-call duties. You work in close collaboration with school nurses, other student health services, and the schools' student health teams. Salary and start date are subject to agreement. A valid criminal record excerpt is required prior to employment. We offer a workplace in a welcoming municipality with commitment, security, and faith in the future. We believe in dialogue as a tool for development and value short decision-making processes and an unpretentious approach. You can read more about the benefits we offer at smedjebacken.se. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION In connection with a job offer, the candidate offered the position will need to verify their citizenship. This can be done with a passport or a certificate of citizenship along with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must provide evidence of a valid work permit or be exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only commence after verification of work authorization, which is required under the Aliens Ordinance. We kindly but firmly decline any contact from advertisers and staffing agencies in the recruitment process, as the selection of recruitment channels has already been determined for this recruitment. Read more at smedjebacken.se about how we handle your personal data according to GDPR. All recruitment takes place digitally and through our external link to the recruitment system Webcruiter. If you experience problems registering your CV, please contact Webcruiter support. If you have protected personal data, contact the HR department through the municipality's switchboard and you will receive assistance with your application. Contact Information Per Eisen, Operations Developer/Deputy Principal, +46 0240660109 Workplace Vasagatan 14 777 81 Smedjebacken Important Information: Employer: Smedjebackens kommun Ref.nr: 5140683259 Position Scope: 10% Permanent Employment Application Deadline: 2026-06-26

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job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Smedjebacken

GPS

60.1475886, 15.2105679copyopen in

Phone

+46 0240660109

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Published

8. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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