Jurist in Healthcare and Medical Law

Karolinska University Hospital is one of the world's leading university hospitals. Together with Karolinska Institute, the hospital forms a medical center with high international reputation. We strive to achieve more tomorrow than we can today, both at our hospital and by developing and sharing knowledge with others. To reach that goal, we must fulfill our mission: to excel at the difficult. You are offered - to become part of a world-leading healthcare organization at the forefront of medical innovation and research - to develop legal work across many areas of law, particularly within healthcare law and municipal and administrative law Of course, you will also benefit from the general benefits that Karolinska University Hospital offers. About the position Karolinska University Hospital is one of Europe's leading medical institutions and a central part of Region Stockholm with approximately 16,000 employees. Our Legal Unit together with our Data Protection Unit consists of dozens of employees with important support functions and specialist roles that together support the hospital's various departments and functions. As a lawyer at Karolinska University Hospital, you play a crucial role in leading and developing legal support to the hospital's staff. As a lawyer, you will primarily work with healthcare law and municipal and administrative law. Issues within other areas of law may also be relevant, such as public access to information and confidentiality, discrimination law, and archival matters. The work is characterized by many points of contact within Karolinska University Hospital and the entire Region Stockholm. Together we drive improvement work that contributes to Karolinska's overarching vision: "We will cure and relieve tomorrow what no one can cure and relieve today." We are looking for you who You have a very strong ability for advanced legal analysis and argumentation. You are creative and have a talent for breaking down complex problems and putting issues into a larger perspective. As a person, you are solution-oriented, analytical, and communicative with the ability to build good relationships. You are also responsible and independent with great integrity and the ability to drive and follow up legal work based on the organization's needs. The operations are to a large extent externally driven and you need to have great flexibility as the focus can change rapidly. We greatly value personal qualities such as being a high-performing person with decisiveness and perseverance. You have excellent judgment and an outstanding ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders and are an opportunity-oriented person with high social competence and the ability to build trusting relationships. You can navigate and keep multiple processes running in parallel by thinking innovatively in complex contexts. Your ability to collaborate with people at all levels in the organization is of utmost importance to be successful in the role. You act according to the hospital's values in relation to your colleagues and the organization as a whole. Qualifications Requirements: - Lawyer (jur. kand./law degree) - Several years of experience with qualified legal work within healthcare law (for example, the Health and Medical Services Act, the Patient Data Act, and the Patients Act) - Experience with qualified legal work within municipal and administrative law (including public access to information and confidentiality) Merits: - Experience from legal work in a region, municipality, or other authority - Experience from the healthcare sector - Teaching experience - Notary certification - Experience working in a large organization with understanding of complex decision-making processes About the recruitment process Selection and interviews may take place on an ongoing basis during the application period. In our recruitment process, we may use Assessio's MAP and Matrigma tests. MAP is a personality test and Matrigma is a non-verbal aptitude test, both based on work psychological research. The tests are used as a complement to your experience and competencies and the purpose is to make our selection process quality-assured and transparent. With your application, you need to attach a CV. Instead of a cover letter, we ask you to answer selection questions and briefly explain why you are suited for the role. Answering the questions is a requirement for your application to be considered complete. We warmly welcome your application - Together we are Karolinska! For the appointment of a position involving the care of children and young people, the person offered the position will be checked against the suspicion and burden register. You can read more about the recruitment process and which checks are performed at Karolinska here. As an employee at Karolinska University Hospital, you may be placed on war duty. Read more about what this means here. If you are or have previously been employed by Region Stockholm, we will take internal references from your current or former manager if you become a candidate for employment. For permanent positions, a probationary period may be applied.

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