We have highly skilled employees and we promote equal opportunities for men and women, and we promote further education and specialisation. We also have treatment locations in Alta, Karasjok and Tana. We offer Mental Health Care and Substance Abuse treatment at all our locations.
Finnmark Hospital Trust is a small health trust, but we think of it as an advantage – it is large enough to give varied and interesting clinical experience and yet small enough for us to get to know each other. We are a modern teaching hospital with 2,000 highly qualified staff and many students, serving a population of 75,000.
We aim to meet and treat our patients within both general medicine and mental health, in a friendly atmosphere with staff from Norway and many other nations. Encouraging research is a major priority for us, and we have several co-workes who have finished their PhD's with us. We have high scores on quality indicators and aim to always do better.
Finnmark has a well-developed decentralised specialist health service. We have a significant activity in Karasjok, where we have a special focus on health services for the Sami population. Sami National Center for Mental Health (SANKS) in Karasjok provides an offer to the Sami population throughout Norway.
We have ambulance stations in all the municipalities, air ambulance in Alta and Kirkenes, boat ambulance in Havøysund and Øksfjord, and we have the medical responsibility for the SAR Queen rescue helicopter located in Lakselv. We have a though climate and a lot of extreme weather, which means that we must be able to carry out emergency treatment under extreme conditions, and our ambulance personnel must be good at improvising.
