Care Assistant at Kålgården Elderly Home

Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different job roles. We are growing in line with the city's development, with more residents, more housing, and a larger range of services. We are always on the lookout for new talent - employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better city to visit, live, work, and reside in.

Do you have a big heart and a genuine interest in other people? Do you want to make a social impact? Are you both a team player and able to work independently? Then you have a job to apply for at Kålgården Elderly Home!

Your New Job

The operations are based on the values of elderly care: The social services' care for the elderly should focus on ensuring that older individuals can live a dignified life and feel well-being (SoL Chapter 5, Section 4).

As a care assistant, you play a significant role in providing individualized care and social stimulation - always with the individual in focus. Your tasks are based on assessed needs and include personal care, daily chores such as cleaning and laundry, social activities, medication management, and various responsibilities. The assessed services for residents are planned with support from staff using the operational system Kompanion, which acts as a tool in daily work planning and describes what staff should do during a shift.

You actively work with case management, implementation plans, and social documentation in the operational system Combine. Together with your team, you promote health and focus on the strengths and opportunities of each person. The goal is for each individual to have a meaningful everyday life and feel well-being. All care is tailored to the resident's needs, wishes, and conditions. You administer medication on delegation from a nurse, carry out certain rehabilitation measures on delegation from an occupational therapist/physiotherapist, and report ongoing activities verbally and in writing to the unit manager/nurse and colleagues.

The position also includes providing care and support at the end of life as well as palliative care.

Your Qualifications

You are a trained care assistant with experience in healthcare and social services. To succeed in the role of care assistant with us, you have a genuine interest in driving and developing various quality-enhancing activities for our elderly citizens. You are positive, flexible, and good at independently planning and executing your work. You are stable and have the ability to handle a dynamic everyday life while maintaining calm even in unforeseen or emergency situations. You also possess good collaboration skills, effective communication skills, and prioritize the individual's and the organization's best interests in your actions and decision-making.

You have very good skills in speaking and writing in Swedish and have a high reading comprehension of written texts. You should be able to actively participate in training/information sessions at workplace meetings and absorb information. Furthermore, you have experience in keeping journal notes and possess very good computer skills.

The work requires physical mobility as situations arise that cannot be predicted and must be resolved in a manner suited to the situation.

We place great importance on personal suitability in recruitment.

We Offer You

We offer you a secure employment and a flexible and varied job alongside a wonderful and competent team of colleagues. As an employee of Jönköping Municipality, you will also enjoy a range of general benefits such as paid vacation from the first year of employment and wellness grants. Read about our benefits here: https://www.jonkoping.se/jobba-hos-oss/jonkopings-kommun-som-arbetsgivare-/detta-far-du-nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss (https://www.jonkoping.se/jobba-hos-oss/jonkopings-kommun-som-arbetsgivare-/detta-far-du-nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss)

Welcome to Us

The mission of the Social Administration is to ensure that everyone residing in Jönköping Municipality, based on politically assigned tasks and in accordance with applicable legislation, has their basic needs for support, care, and security met. The Social Administration includes functions such as elderly care, disability care, individual and family care, and the authority unit.

Good to Know

Kålgården Elderly Home is an elderly home with home care services. The residence is centrally located in Jönköping, close to both Munksjöbron and Östra Kajen. While you have easy access to the city center and bus connections, you can also enjoy nature with beautiful walking paths around Munksjön and Rocksjön. The elderly home is divided into 3 units and consists of 49 apartments, of which four are two-room apartments. There is close collaboration with various professional roles, and Kålgården is a workplace with 37 dedicated employees, a good community, and opportunities to influence your work. We are now looking for new team members and hope you want to join us!

Want to Know More?

Recruiting manager, see below. Union representatives: https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligasoc (https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligasoc)

Together, we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the position of care assistant!

Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.

In preparation for the recruitment process, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. Therefore, we kindly but firmly decline all calls regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.