Vacant job

This is a job for you who are driven, want to develop in your professional role, and contribute to health and quality of life for those living with us. Here you get good working hours, work independently, and have the freedom to shape your workdays.

About Villa Vikhem Villa Vikhem is a residence located in the Vikhem area of Staffanstorp. The unit has three floors with two departments per floor. 40 places focused on special housing and 20 places for short-term/relief care. At Villa Vikhem, we focus on training and animals. We have opportunities for training both indoors and outdoors. Residents in special housing have the option to move in with their pets. We also collaborate with external actors and place great importance on ensuring that those living with us experience a meaningful everyday life, which may include arranged activities or time with their contact person.

With us at Vardaga, you will also find engaged colleagues and skilled managers, training, career opportunities, and several benefits.

Here are some highlights of our offer to you:

• Good schedule and working hours: Weekday work without weekends, daytime.
• High quality and support from clear routines: Easily applicable routines, governing documents, checklists, and quality management systems provide you with extensive support in your work.
• Competence development: You have access to Vardaga's internal training organization, Lära, with a variety of courses. You also have the opportunity to apply for a training position to become a specialist nurse.
• Career opportunities: As a nurse, you can advance to become a unit manager or operations manager for a residence.
• Good management and short decision-making paths: Your manager is close at hand for support and to brainstorm ideas. One of the residence's nurses is always part of the local management group.
• Community and support: You work closely with nursing colleagues, group leaders, and care staff. Within Vardaga, there is a national network for nurses to exchange inspiration and knowledge.
• Benefits portal with discounts: Purchase, for example, cinema tickets and public transport tickets at good prices. The highlights are based on responses from Vardaga's 180 nurses who listed their best reasons for working with us. Read more about their responses here.

About the role

You are the spider in the web regarding the residents' health and medical care efforts and work to provide quality of life. You are responsible for ensuring that medical prescriptions are followed. You regularly conduct risk assessments and follow-ups to ensure good quality in the operations.

Collaboration and support

You are part of a team with care staff, nurses, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists. An important role for you is to coach and educate the care staff so that together you provide each resident with the best possible life. In this, you work closely with the residence's group leaders who are responsible for the care staff. Our group leaders also coach and work alongside the teams in daily operations.

We invest in leadership development for you as a nurse. One course we can offer you is “Leading without being a manager”.

Getting to know the residents

Understanding the residents' wishes and noticing small changes in their health and medical conditions is often crucial for accurate assessments and decisions.

Clear routines

To create security and clarity for you as a nurse, there is extensive support in the form of practical and easily applicable routines, governing documents, and checklists. Our quality management system is called Qualimax and is industry-leading.

As a new nurse with us, you will participate in our digital introduction program together with your mentor to ensure that you receive a clear introduction with the goal of quickly integrating into the work and our routines.

"Good collaboration is the most important thing." - Annelie Stavås, nurse and group leader, Gothenburg

Your experience and knowledge

You are a licensed nurse, and we prefer that you have worked a few years in elderly care. Our residents are often multi-sick, which requires you to have both comprehensive knowledge of various diseases and conditions as well as an interest in the aging person. Good computer skills and experience with documentation are important.

We wish that you

• enjoy working independently and having the freedom to shape your workdays
• are confident in your role as a nurse and can make quick decisions and engage in discussions with the responsible doctor
• take initiative, have a strong personality, and dare to take charge
• enjoy having a leadership role and supporting your colleagues
• are accustomed to structuring and organizing your work.

"I have always been believed in and invested in, and when I have ideas, the employer listens." - Mårten Hedberg, Medical Responsible Nurse, Stockholm

Other

Salary: We apply individual salary setting Start date: By agreement. Application deadline: 250420 Background check: A criminal record extract must be presented upon potential employment If you have questions? Please contact: Martina Tykesson (martina.tykesson@vardaga.se). Please note that it is not possible to apply via email. We apply a 6-month probationary period. If you want to know more about what it is like to work at Vardaga, please read more and meet some of our employees here.

Union contact: Vårdförbundet Mail: vardforbundet@ambea.se

Application

Welcome to apply via the “Send application” button below. Do not wait to apply as we are selecting candidates continuously.

If you are called for an interview, you need to be able to prove that you have the right to work in Sweden by showing that you have citizenship within the EU/EES or a valid work permit.

Read more about us at www.vardaga.se