Summer Substitute in Elderly Care at Nacka Senior Center

Are you a trained nursing assistant, a student in healthcare and social services, or interested in working with elderly care? We are looking for a service-oriented team player who wants to contribute to ensuring that the elderly in Nacka municipality receive the quality of life and care they need. At Nacka Senior Center, we also offer good development opportunities. Welcome with your application today!

Your Mission

Nacka Senior Center is a meeting place for seniors and the municipal alternative for elderly care in Nacka municipality. Our four senior centers are located in Finntor, Ektorp, Saltsjöbaden, and Saltsjö-Boo, and all facilities have both a somatic and a dementia ward. All facilities offer social activities, care, and daily activities. Each facility has a kitchen with its own chefs and meal assistants who prepare meals from scratch. Based on a health-promoting approach, we create a safe and secure environment where participation and the individual’s needs for quality care are guiding in all efforts. Read more on Nacka's website.

As a summer substitute at Nacka Senior Center, your work centers around ensuring that the elderly can live a dignified life and feel secure. The customer's needs are always the starting point for the efforts, and we follow their wishes for support, care, and nursing. The most common tasks include nursing, administering medication, light wound care, supervision, and responding to alarms. Documentation is also an important part of your work.

Working hours for days, evenings, and weekends are scheduled at varying times between 07:00-21:00. Night shifts are from 21:00-07:00.

As a summer substitute, you will take over the fixed schedule of a regular employee. The summer period starts in mid-June and ends at the end of September.

Your Experience

For this position, you are required to have:

• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written
• You must be at least 18 years old

It is an advantage if you also have:

• Completed or ongoing education in healthcare and social services
• Experience in elderly care
• Worked with somatic and dementia patients before
• Documentation and computer skills

Is this you?

To thrive in the role of summer substitute at Nacka Senior Center, we see that you are a team player with good communication skills and a focus on problem-solving. Furthermore, you are flexible, responsible, and enjoy working independently. Since you work directly with the customers of the operation, the job requires personal maturity, sensitivity, empathy, and a sense of service. The work requires good physical ability as lifting and transfers occur.

In this recruitment process, we place great importance on personal suitability.

We Offer

As a summer substitute at Nacka Senior Center, you are employed by Stab Competence Supply, which is responsible for coordinating and ensuring the quality of staffing care personnel during short-term absences and monthly substitutes. You may be offered the opportunity to work as a substitute before and after your summer substitute position.

In Nacka, you have the opportunity to work in a municipality that aims to be the best in Sweden at being a municipality, with openness and diversity as its vision and a fundamental value of trusting people's knowledge, will, and ability.

Criminal Record Extract

An extract from the Police's criminal record for schools and preschools is required in connection with employment. We ask you to select "digital record extract" for faster processing. Request the extract when you submit your application as processing times can be long.

Interested?

In this recruitment process, we have chosen to recruit without a personal letter. When assessing your application for this position, we will base it on your CV and a number of questions that you will answer when submitting your application. It is important that your CV clearly describes your work periods and your tasks. The recruitment process consists of group interviews and reference checks. Selections will be made continuously.

If you want to become a part of Nacka municipality, do not hesitate to submit your application!

We look forward to your application!

Nacka is one of Sweden's most attractive and reputable municipalities. With a focus on goals, results, sustainable employee engagement, and continuous development, Nacka strives to be the best at being a municipality. Nacka municipality is the employer for you who, with great freedom, innovates and makes a difference.

The Welfare Community Service is responsible for the municipality's production of welfare services and operates, among other things, special accommodations for the elderly and people with special needs, daily activities, youth centers, music schools, and cultural houses. In total, we have over forty units within four business areas with 1400 employees, and together we generate approximately 600 million kronor. Our service is characterized by efficient resource utilization, strong citizen influence, and great freedom of choice. Within all operations, the ambition is to create the best conditions for creativity, innovation, and knowledge sharing.