Vacant job

Are you curious and flexible?

Do you enjoy meeting people and want a dynamic and varied job where no two workdays are alike? Then the role in home care might be for you! Home care has about 130 employees who contribute to many customers' daily lives through municipal home care. We work to enable individuals to 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.

We are now looking for an engaged nursing assistant to work with us!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Common tasks in home care include encouraging, supporting, and motivating regarding personal hygiene, care, meals, and activities. We start from the user's needs and wishes. The goal is to enable the elderly, with perceived safety and quality, to remain in their homes for as long as they wish. We work according to the Individual's Needs in Focus (IBIC). The work includes maintaining good dialogue with care recipients and their relatives, as well as documenting according to social services guidelines via computer and handling delegated health care tasks.

In our home care facility, there is also maintenance of common areas, laundry rooms, and staff rooms. Your responsibilities as an employee include following both municipal overarching documents and the unit's routines and given instructions for employment and daily work. This means, for example, following basic hygiene routines, using aids and medical technical products, as well as ergonomic working methods, among others.

In ordinary housing, we work with a fixed care contact, which means that you, with a permanent employment, have a special responsibility towards one or more users. In ordinary housing, new working methods and digitalization are constantly being implemented to meet the needs of society. You will work with a mobile phone as a work tool and document in the system Treserva. With us, you work both independently and together with your colleagues. Working hours vary and can be days, evenings, and weekends. We use bicycles as a means of transport, and the bicycles are provided by the employer.

We are also responsible for the area's alarm responses.

If you work in home care, you need to be prepared for pets to be present in our users' homes.

The home care facilities are located at Helheten on Markörvägen in Strängnäs, near the Travel Center. Work with our users is in central Strängnäs.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• a valid professional license as a nursing assistant
• good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written.
• good computer skills.
• a B driver's license (as you may need to drive our alarm vehicle).

It is an advantage if you have:

• knowledge of and/or experience working with a focus on mental health, dementia, and palliative care.
• previous experience working in elderly care.

Your personal qualities are important to us! We want you to share the municipality's values: development, respect, openness, and clarity. A positive attitude towards work and a strong interest in working with people is the foundation for you to thrive with us. You are open, attentive, and can easily collaborate with others but can also work independently when required. With us, no day is the same, and you enjoy variation 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 and patient. You are calm and can support, guide, and mentor users in their daily lives.

Welcome to apply today, as selection and interviews are ongoing. At the job interview, we ask you to show valid identification, as well as study certificates/grades/diplomas.

OTHER

Welcome to Strängnäs municipality! Strängnäs municipality has just over 39,000 inhabitants and is strategically located in Mälardalen with excellent communication opportunities. Here, 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, all contributing to creating 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. We see in our annual employee survey that our employees thrive. 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 smoke-free working hours 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, an extract from the police's criminal record 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: https://www.strangnas.se/kommun-och-politik/overklaga-beslut-rattssakerhet/personuppgifter-i-strangnas-kommun (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.