Do you want to work in a home care group that is stable, inclusive, and solution-focused?

Then you have come to the right place!

The Health and Care Administration in Östersund Municipality is looking for you who are a care assistant or trained nursing assistant for home care in Orrviken. With us, you will work alongside six dedicated colleagues who are all passionate about providing good and safe care. The unit is located in Orrviken. Here you will have the opportunity to enjoy beautiful stretches and moments of recovery between visits to the citizens. Our unit has a close and good collaboration with the home care service Frösödal, where we support and help each other as needed. We place great emphasis on a good working environment so that everyone feels well and so that we can provide good service to our citizens.

Your new job

As a care assistant or nursing assistant in home care, you will work with personal care and service in citizens' homes. You work to promote physical, mental, and social health for the citizens you assist. Your mission is to support the citizen and facilitate everyday life in daily life. You provide personal care based on individual needs and perform delegated health and medical care tasks such as specific care and rehabilitation. You collaborate with nursing assistants, care assistants, coordinators, district nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and unit managers. You document in our operational systems, which is an important part of your tasks.

Common tasks

• Assisting citizens with personal hygiene and basic care
• Supporting during transfers
• Administration of medication according to medical delegation and prescription
• Preparation of light meals
• Leg bandaging
• Caring for various internal outlets (for example, urinary catheters or stomas)
• Simple wound dressing
• Care documentation
• Dishes and light cleaning tasks

Your qualifications

Requirements

• At least one year of work experience in home care
• Driving license B
• Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written

Meritorious

• Trained nursing assistant
• Experience from municipal health and medical care
• Experience with contact person assignments
• Good computer skills

We are looking for you

You are a responsive and engaged person with great respect for our elderly. As a person, you are flexible, unpretentious, and have good teamwork skills as well as a strong commitment. We also value that you are positive towards innovation and see opportunities and have a desire to contribute to the development and improvement of the organization. You should be secure and stable in your professional role and also help ensure that our citizens feel involved.

A greeting from your future manager

Welcome to home care in Orrviken! My name is Anton, and I am the unit manager for the home care group in Orrviken. I have been working as a manager since 2021 and find home care to be a very fun, interesting, and rewarding activity. It is important for me to be available for you and your colleagues as much as possible. My goal is for the workgroup to focus on the citizens and for them to feel secure in knowing what to do and what is expected. I strive to recruit employees with different strengths and experiences to give the group breadth. We should all feel that we enjoy going to work and have a good feeling in our stomachs when the work shift is over. You do a fantastic job!

Best regards, Anton Thorngren

How the recruitment process works

Interviews may occur on an ongoing basis. We ask that you attach your CV and cover letter to your application. Grades/certificates do not need to be sent with. We ask you to provide these if it becomes relevant for an interview.

Östersund Municipality has considered the choice of advertising channels before advertising and therefore requests no calls from recruitment firms and ad sellers.

What do we offer?

Östersund Municipality offers you benefits such as paid vacation from the first year of employment, vacation exchange, wellness allowance or wellness hour. Through our benefits portal, you can access independent pension advice and a variety of discounts and offers. You can also receive quick and professional support from various specialists, such as psychologists, lawyers, and economists, through the Employee Support service. You can read more about our benefits on our website: https://www.ostersund.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/jobba-hos-oss/sa-har-jobbar-vi/lon-och-formaner.html (https://www.ostersund.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/jobba-hos-oss/sa-har-jobbar-vi/lon-och-formaner.html)

About the Health and Care Administration

Working with heart with us at the Health and Care Administration means that you contribute to creating simpler, richer, and safer lives for the residents of Östersund. We work with people of all ages and strive to always make a difference in everyday life. It is important. For real.