Specialist Nurse with a Focus on Dementia

Do you want to contribute to an increased quality of life for our residents in Strängnäs Municipality? With us, in the role of specialist nurse, you will help provide security, warmth, and increased opportunities for our residents to stay in their own homes longer!

We are now looking for two specialist nurses with a focus on dementia for our home care service. The positions will be placed in home care units 2 and 3. Both Home Care 2 and 3 have approximately 35 employees who contribute to many customers' daily lives through the municipal home care service. We work to ensure that people can live an independent life based on their own conditions. The assignments in home care are characterized by providing care and service of the highest quality. Our area covers both parts of central Strängnäs and the countryside.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Working as a Silvia Sister with us in home care means that you have a special assignment within dementia care and support. As a Silvia Sister, it is your responsibility to continuously conduct training for the care staff in basic dementia and cognitive impairment. The training sessions are scheduled throughout the year. You will also act as a mentor to the care staff in their daily care work. Mentoring can be conducted both in your own unit and in other units. Guidance can take place through conversations or in direct care work to enhance the quality for the user.

Your role/assignment as a Specialist Nurse/Silvia Sister is to work based on the principles and values of dementia, using a person-centered approach and Silviahemmet's palliative care philosophy. When you are not working on a specific assignment, you will work in regular care tasks. Care tasks also include case management and social documentation, as well as performing certain health care tasks on behalf of the nurse.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has/is:

• an educated nurse with further training as a Silvia Sister through a college/university.
• previous experience working in home care.
• previous experience working with people with dementia or cognitive impairment.
• good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.
• comfortable using IT as support for documentation, etc.
• has a B driver's license.

Your personal qualities are important to us! We want you to share the municipality's values of development, respect, openness, and clarity. A positive attitude towards work and a strong interest in working with people are the foundation for you to thrive with us.

You are open, attentive, and easy to collaborate with others, but can also work independently when required. With us, no day is the same, and you thrive on variety and can easily adapt if unforeseen events occur in the work. You have the ability to create trust and instill security, while also being stable, driven, and patient. You are calm and can support, guide, and mentor users in their daily lives.

The selection will take place after the application period ends. We warmly welcome your application!

OTHER

Welcome to Strängnäs Municipality! Strängnäs Municipality has just over 39,000 inhabitants and is strategically located in Mälardalen with excellent communication opportunities. It is close to the big city of Stockholm, which can be reached by train in under 50 minutes, and even closer is Eskilstuna. Our municipality is an attractive place for both living and working, where you have the opportunity to make a real difference for the community and its residents.

With us, there are many meaningful and challenging tasks, with opportunities to grow and develop in your professional role. In Strängnäs Municipality, over 2,500 knowledgeable and engaged employees work together to create a positive everyday life for the residents. We value a workplace where everyone feels included and where there is room to influence.

We actively work based on a value foundation characterized by respect, openness, development, and clarity. Our annual employee survey shows that our employees are satisfied. We hope you want to be part of our team and together with us build the future of Strängnäs. Together, we create a stronger municipality and make each other better.

Strängnäs Municipality applies a smoke-free working time to create a healthy working environment for all employees, colleagues, and users.

Application Process and Personal Data Management:

• As an applicant, you are responsible for clearly documenting your qualifications so that we can make an objective and fair assessment of your application.
• When working with children and young people, a police record extract is required before employment.
• Strängnäs Municipality handles your personal data in accordance with applicable legislation. You can read more about our personal data management on our website: personal data in Strängnäs Municipality (https://www.strangnas.se/kommun-och-politik/overklaga-beslut-rattssakerhet/personuppgifter-i-strangnas-kommun).

Strängnäs Municipality has chosen media channels for this recruitment and therefore requests no contact with ad sellers and recruitment services.

We look forward to learning more about you and how you want to contribute to the future of Strängnäs.