Chief Physician for the Nephrology Clinic

Starting from the 2027 year-end, the Nephrology Clinic will form a shared clinic together with the Endocrinology Clinic. We are therefore seeking a Chief Physician for the future Nephrology Section, where you will have a significant role in shaping and developing the new clinic. Our Offer Here you will have a unique opportunity to help build and shape the clinic structure from the ground up and drive the development of care for nephrology patients. You will have committed colleagues as well as strong support from management, HR, finance, and business development specialists to drive and develop operations. The clinic's mission encompasses investigation, treatment, and follow-up of patients with kidney diseases. The clinic provides both outpatient and inpatient care, including nephrology consultations, dialysis operations, and responsibility for ward beds. A central part of the mission is to combine clinical work with research, education, and development to strengthen nephrology as a knowledge-intensive and forward-looking operation. Do you want to help shape the future nephrology operation and contribute to developing a new shared clinic? This could be the right assignment for you. Please read about your benefits with us; you will also find information about salary and compensation terms here. Job Description As Chief Physician for Nephrology, you are part of clinic management and have a central role in leading and developing operations. Together with others in management, you are responsible for driving operations forward and ensuring effective work processes, a good work environment, and high patient safety. As Chief Physician, you have personnel responsibility for the physician group consisting of approximately 14 employees. The group includes senior physicians, specialist physicians, resident physicians, and junior physicians. The role involves a broad assignment where you alternate between strategic issues and daily leadership of operations. Through active and inclusive leadership, you create conditions for good collaboration, high engagement, and continued development within the physician group. The assignment combines managerial responsibility with clinical practice. You have an important role in driving the clinic's development work forward by strengthening and developing care processes and initiating improvement initiatives. Your responsibilities also include monitoring operations goals and results and ensuring that clinic development meets both current and future needs. To support integrated care, you collaborate with other operations within the hospital, primary care, and the university. About You We are primarily seeking someone who is a specialist physician in nephrology and/or internal medicine. We view applications positively both from those with prior management experience and from those who wish to take the step into a leadership role as part of your continued professional development. Experience with management or leadership assignments is a merit, but what weighs most heavily is your interest in leadership as well as your ability to engage, motivate, and develop operations together with employees and colleagues. We seek someone who feels comfortable in a leadership role and who has a talent for creating engagement, participation, and good collaboration. You have a genuine interest in people, strong empathetic abilities, and meet others with attentiveness and respect. We see that you are confident in your profession and have well-developed collaboration skills. You value open and clear communication and contribute to an environment characterized by trust and transparency. As a person, you are organized, have an overall perspective, and can make well-founded decisions even when conditions are complex or changing over time. You have the ability to make wise prioritizations and trade-offs based on operational needs. Great weight will be placed on personal suitability. Application and Employment The Chief Physician position is a fixed-term management assignment, with permanent employment in your base profession. We conduct ongoing selection, so please submit your application as soon as possible. Before employment in patient-related work within Region Östergötland, you will be asked to complete a health declaration. We warmly welcome your application! If you need help registering in the system, contact Customer Service Support and Service at 010-103 60 00 during office hours. To staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and to you who are salespeople: We kindly but firmly ask that staffing, placement, and recruitment companies and other external actors and sellers of additional job postings do not contact us directly. Region Östergötland has contracted agreements.

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