Stockholm – our capital city with millions of dreams, expectations, and ambitions

We work for everyone living here today and in the future. We are now looking for you who want to think big, new, and differently with us – for the people of Stockholm.

Do you want to make a difference in the everyday lives of Stockholmers and work in an exciting and growing district? With us, you will develop and grow with the task. We are working to find new innovative ways to ensure healthy and meaningful aging. To support this, we have an innovation center with advanced welfare technology in care and nursing. Together, we work to be a district in a safe city to grow up, live, and age in.

Welcome to us

Högdalen's nursing and care home is a municipal elderly care facility in one of Stockholm's academic nodes.

An academic node is a unit that helps drive the development of elderly care in Stockholm. Here, there are a total of 140 apartments, divided into 68 somatic and 50 dementia places, as well as 18 short-term places and 4 respite care places. We work based on a person-centered approach where the focus is on health, well-being, and quality of life.

As a nurse with us in special housing for the elderly, you are an important part of our work to actively contribute to ensuring that residents feel safe, seen, involved, appreciated, and important. We base our work on a salutogenic approach focusing on creating a sense of coherence for both residents and employees.

We offer

• A pleasant workplace with a competent team of colleagues and engaged managers.
• Beautiful surroundings and good communications near Högdalen subway station.
• Wellness allowance.
• An introduction to your assignment and an overall introduction to working in the City of Stockholm and in our administration.

Read more about the benefits of the City of Stockholm here.

Your role

In the role of nurse in our somatic department, you work as the nursing responsible nurse (OAS). This means that you have overall responsibility for the care and ensure that health and medical care is provided with high quality and good patient safety. The focus of health and medical care should be health-promoting and person-centered, with a cross-professional and process-oriented approach. You lead and distribute the nursing work in the department for which you are responsible. This involves close collaboration with basic staff, rehabilitation managers, unit managers, operations managers, and MAS (Medically Responsible Nurse).

Supporting and mentoring colleagues, students, and pupils is also part of our work to ensure the competence of our operations.

In addition to the daily work in the department, the nursing responsible nurse (OAS) is responsible for the cross-professional team meetings that occur regularly. These meetings provide space for deepening knowledge and exchanging experiences between professions.

Your competence and experience

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a licensed nurse with proof from the National Board of Health and Welfare and several years of experience in the profession.
• Has at least 1 year of experience working in elderly care facilities.
• Has very good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing, as this requires extensive communication with residents, documentation, and collaboration with internal and external parties.

It is also meritorious if you have:

• Supervisor training 7.5 Hp.
• Experience with the documentation system Vodok 2.0/ICF.
• Experience working with quality registers in elderly care.
• Specialist nurse in Elderly Care.
• Specialist nurse in palliative care.
• Other specialization relevant to the assignment.

Other

Daytime work where you work 2 out of 6 weekends.

To work with the elderly and people with disabilities in their homes, in the City of Stockholm, you must provide an extract from the criminal record. The extract must not be older than 6 months from the date of issue. You can order an extract from the Police Authority's website: Extract to check your own information in the criminal record (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/).

Probationary employment may be applied.

About the recruitment process

We recruit without a personal letter to focus on the competencies and experiences needed for the position. You apply by attaching your CV and answering a few selection questions. Selection is based on your answers to the questions and the information you provided in your CV. We hope that your answers to the selection questions align with the content of your CV.

Selection and interviews will take place after the application deadline. Please attach your relevant educational and work certificates when you register your application. Since we communicate with you via email and SMS, we ask you to also keep an eye on your spam folder (emails can sometimes end up there) and respond as soon as you can. Prepare two references, at least one of which should be a salary-setting manager.

Below you can read more about Högdalen nursing and care home and the Enskede-Årsta-Vantör district administration, and you are also welcome to visit our Instagram.

Högdalen's nursing and care home, City of Stockholm

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Högdalen's nursing and care home, Instagram

The City of Stockholm works with competence-based recruitment aimed at recognizing each person's skills and thus combating discrimination.

Enskede Årsta Vantör is one of 11 district administrations in the City of Stockholm. As part of the City of Stockholm, the administration offers preschool and leisure, care for the elderly and disabled, social services, preventive and safety-promoting work, urban development, and park maintenance to our 105,000 Stockholmers living in the district. We face exciting challenges as the Enskede Årsta Vantör district grows and entirely new neighborhoods are being built. Approximately 18,000 new apartments are planned by 2030.