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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 go through our leadership program where you will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills through our educational organization, Lära.

We are constantly evolving and 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 activities together with the team. This means that you are a role model for your employees and through your strong commitment, you create a good working climate 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 work group 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 confirming 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 Polhemsgården Polhemsgården in Solna consists of 80 apartments with a dementia focus and the day activity center Lyktan. Polhemsgården has nature and garden as its profile. Outdoor activities and activities in nature, parks, and gardens are natural parts of our daily life. We work based on different nature themes throughout the year. Vardaga operates the facility on behalf of Solna municipality. • Silviahem certification: We are a Silviahem certified residence, which means that everyone who works here is trained in dementia and interaction through Silviahemmet. • 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 with us who work here to enhance the living experience for the residents.

• Activity responsible: We work systematically with activities and have an activity responsible person who develops and carries out meaningful activities with our 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 have the ability 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 manage and follow up on operations based on quality goals and financial frameworks

Here are some highlights of our offer to you: Leadership program: All group leaders go through our leadership program where you will 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, buy cinema tickets and public transport tickets at good prices.

Other Salary: We apply individual salary setting Start date: By agreement Last application date: 2026-01-31 Background check: A criminal record extract must be presented upon potential employment. Of course, we also have collective agreements and insurance.

If you have questions? Please contact: [email protected] Please note that it is not possible to apply via email. 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: Vision, Magnus Sällström, [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.

At Vardaga's over 100 residences across Sweden, we offer elderly care where every day is equally important. With us, you will meet expertise and security at every nursing home, short-term accommodation, home care, and day activities. We aim to be quality-leading in everything we do, and our vision is to make the world a little better, one person at a time. Our employees work with each individual's quality of life and security in focus. Vardaga is part of the Ambea group.www.vardaga.se