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Are you a nursing assistant looking for a new career opportunity? As a group leader, you will take on a leadership role and coach our employees to make a difference for those living with us. All group leaders undergo our leadership program where you will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills through our educational organization, Lära.

We are in constant development and are looking for someone who wants to grow with us – together we make the world a little better, one person at a time! With us, you will have engaged colleagues, skilled managers, training, career opportunities, and several benefits.

About the role

As a group leader, your primary task is to coach and work in daily care together with the team. This means that you are a role model for your employees and, through your strong commitment, create a good working atmosphere in the group every day. You will work during the day, weekends, and evenings.

• Close leadership: The role exists in our organization to ensure close leadership and provide support. You have personnel and planning responsibility for your workgroup and are involved in developing and quality-assuring the operations in accordance with Vardaga's concept. This is done by being present and supportive, answering questions, leading, giving feedback, and acknowledging your employees in their daily work. You have several group leader colleagues, and you collaborate, brainstorm, and exchange experiences.
• Participation: As a group leader, you report to the operations manager and have the opportunity to influence through your participation in the local management group.

About Solbacken

Solbacken is a special accommodation for people with dementia. We also have a unit for short-term and respite care, as well as a day activity program focused on dementia. There are a total of 64 accommodation places.

We focus on providing high-quality care and offer a varied range of activities, both individually and in groups. Solbacken is located at Stadshagsvägen 5 on Kungsholmen in a beautiful older building.

Additional information about what we offer at Solbacken.

• Activity Coordinator: We work systematically with activities and have an activity coordinator who develops and carries out meaningful activities with our residents.
• Dementia Certification: We are a dementia-certified accommodation, which means that all of us who work here are trained in dementia and interaction through the Dementia Academy. You will also undergo this training.
• Needs-based preferred schedule: We apply a needs-based preferred schedule. This means that you and your employees have the opportunity to influence working hours based on needs and wishes. We schedule for 10 weeks at a time.
• Young Care: We have a collaboration with the company Young Care. This means that a team of young people aged 14–18 visits us on weekends and holidays. Young Care engages in various activities together with us who work here to enhance the quality of life for the residents.

Your experience and knowledge

You are a trained nursing assistant, have good computer skills, and speak and write fluent Swedish. Experience in elderly care and leadership is an advantage for this role. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We want you to be:

• clear and create participation
• coaching and able to motivate and create engagement among our employees.
• skilled at giving and receiving feedback
• unpretentious and quick to learn
• independent and cooperative
• business-minded by wanting and being able to steer and follow up on operations based on quality goals and economic frameworks

Here are some highlights of our offer to you:

Leadership program: All group leaders undergo our leadership program where you have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills through our educational organization, Lära.

Competence development: You have access to Vardaga's internal educational organization, Lära, with a variety of courses.

Benefits portal with discounts: For example, purchase movie tickets and public transport at good prices.

Other

Salary: We apply individual salary setting. 

We apply a 6-month probationary period.

Start date: By agreement

Application deadline: 2025-12-14

Background check: A criminal record extract must be presented in the event of a potential employment.

As part of our work environment efforts, random drug tests may occur.

Of course, we also have collective agreements and insurance.

If you have questions? Please contact: [email protected], 073-522 94 92

Please note that applications cannot be submitted via email. If you want to know more about what it's like to work at Vardaga, feel free to read more and meet some of our employees here.

Union contact: Vision, [email protected]

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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.

Invitation to chat interview with Hubert AI

As part of our efforts towards a fair and competence-based recruitment process, we have chosen to collaborate with Hubert.ai in this process.

After applying, you will be invited to a chat-based interview with our virtual recruitment assistant Hubert.

Please complete it as soon as you have the opportunity. The interview takes about 15 minutes to complete.