Professor in Care Sciences combined with clinical duty as specialist trained nurse at Södersjukhuset - Prolonged application period - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

- Focus on education and research

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Science and Education Södersjukhuset

The Department of Clinical Science and Education Södersjukhuset, pursues undergraduate education, research education and internationally recognized research focusing on common diseases and injuries. The goal of all activities is to improve human health. The department has about 50 employees, 80 graduate students, 140 affiliated and a turnover of 70 million.

Division

Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital is part of Södersjukhuset (Stockholm South General Hospital), and is one of Sweden’s largest children’s hospitals. The organisation offers specialised paediatric care for children and young people and employs approximately 600 people. The hospital’s accident and emergency department is one of the largest in the country, visited by in the region of 30,000 patients annually, while Södersjukhuset’s maternity unit generates approximately 1,000 admissions to Sachs' neonatal unit. A great deal of research activity is linked to Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital. Researcher’s at the clinic are organised into various research groups, as well as five large research networks (lung/allergies, diabetes, gastrointestinal, cardiology/neurology/neonatology and global health) within which researchers regularly meet.

Duties

The employment has focus on education and research. The employee should be responsible for- and examiner of courses within the nurse and specialist nurse programs as well as freestanding courses at Karolinska Institutet. The applicant is expected to actively participate in the education and supervise at all levels of education including PhD students.

The applicant should be an academic leader in Care Sciences at the Department at Södersjukhuset and Karolinska Institutet and practise research on an international level regarding any common disease. Important parts of the duties are to actively apply for external research grants, follow the development of Care Sciences as well as the social development which has significance for the employee’s work at KI.

The professorship will be combined with duty as a specialist nurse in Paediatric Care at Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital at Södersjukhuset. The employment involves 30 % clinical duties and 70 % research/education.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for employment as Professor the applicant must have demonstrated both research- and teaching expertise, as well as management-, development- and collaborative skills and clinical expertise. (See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet). The applicant shall also have completed courses of 10 weeks (or equivalent competence) of higher education training in teaching in accordance with Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions recommendations for qualification as a higher education teacher or have otherwise obtained equivalent knowledge. There is a requirement to speak and write Swedish fluently.

The position will be combined with a position as specialist trained nurse in Paediatric Care at Sachs' Children and Youth Hospital and therefore the candidate must have suitable specialist nurse training as well as fulfill the National Board of Health and Welfare's requirements for practicing medicine in Sweden.

Bases of assessment

The Professorship has focus on education and research. In the evaluation of the application emphasis will be placed on educational expertise. The assessment will weight qualifications as follows: research expertise (2), educational expertise (3), clinical expertise (1) and leadership-, development- and collaboration expertise (2).

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the candidates, KI will judge which of the candidates that have the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI.

Application process

An application must contain the following documents in English curriculum vitae, qualifications and description of planned research, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s qualifications portfolio (http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio).

The applications will be reviewed by external reviewers in English. All the submitted documents shall therefor be written in English.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.