Engaged Care Assistants Wanted for Korallen Nursing Home

Do you have the courage to lead and create a Vallentuna where people and ideas thrive? Do you want to contribute to a safe and meaningful everyday life for our residents in your work within elderly care? We are now looking for engaged care assistants for Korallen Nursing Home.

Vallentuna Municipality has the courage to lead. Our ambition is to be at the forefront of innovative solutions, smart working methods, and an efficient organization. As an employee, you play an important role in the development work. The municipality as a workplace is characterized by a consensus between politics and operations, where the common interest and responsibility for the best of Vallentuna shines through. Approach, accessibility, and customer focus are important in our work for good results and increased quality.

Engagement, collaboration, and equal value for all should permeate our organization. You who are applying should of course share our common values.

About the Organization:

Korallen Nursing Home has 59 apartments for people who need somatic care and support, as well as accommodation for individuals with cognitive impairment. With us, you will find an engaging and developing workplace where you can take space, aim high, grow in your role, and have fun at the same time. We can offer you a rewarding job with nice and competent colleagues and a workplace where we invest a lot in providing opportunities for professional development and well-being.

We now need to strengthen our staff with you, an experienced care assistant who is passionate about working in elderly care and who wants to contribute to a positive and developing work climate.

To meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs for competence, it is important that existing staff and substitutes have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and further develop within their roles. Vallentuna Municipality has an educational and quality-responsible specialist care assistant/care teacher who maps the need for education and further training and conducts these trainings.

We are centrally located in Vallentuna Municipality, close to public transport and with access to free parking in the area.

Job Responsibilities:

We are now looking for someone who has good knowledge of working in elderly care and works based on a person-centered and values-based approach. Your work includes care tasks and also includes social interaction, activities, service efforts in the form of food and meal management, laundry, and cleaning. You will also actively work in the BPSD register and establish individual implementation plans, social documentation, and perform delegated health and medical tasks.

In your role, you will be a contact person and maintain good contact with relatives and work together with your colleagues in a team. You will also have a representative role within a quality area according to agreement.

Qualifications:

• Trained care assistant; it is an advantage if you also have a specialist education.
• Experience from working in elderly care and with individuals with cognitive impairment.
• Proficient in the Swedish language, both spoken and written.
• Computer skills are required as all documentation is done on a computer.
• Familiar with working with contact person responsibilities, able to establish individual implementation plans and continuously follow up and update them.

Personal Qualities:

• You work towards results, demonstrate reliability, and take responsibility for planning and following up on your work.
• You strengthen relationships by helping others, collaborating, following rules and processes, and sharing information.
• You develop, improve, seek solutions, learn, and gain knowledge on your own initiative.
• You are the link, provide service, show loyalty outward and inward, and monitor the environment.
• Common values are reflected in your approach.
• As a person, you are calm, attentive, and empathetic.
• You have the ability to make decisions, respect and follow decisions made, and be able to perform work on behalf of others.
• You can see the whole picture and prioritize.
• In addition to the above, you are confident in your professional role, take initiative, and have a strong commitment to your work and the well-being of our residents.

Information:

As an employer, we want to take advantage of the qualities that a balanced gender distribution and cultural diversity bring. Vallentuna Municipality invests in professional development and a sustainable working life. To provide the best possible conditions in your employee role, Vallentuna Municipality has an employee academy where you will receive training and tools.

The employment is a part-time temporary position starting by agreement. We apply individual salary setting.

We are now looking for part-time temporary positions between 80-90%. Daytime resource service, fixed rolling schedule, evening, day, and every other weekend. Night is a fixed rolling schedule.

Resource service means that you work in the unit that has a need for the day, so you will work in several departments. Please specify in your application which position you are interested in.

Before any new employment, Vallentuna Municipality conducts a background check.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we use the tool ReachMee. We ask you to submit your application by clicking on the application link in the advertisement. We do not accept applications/expressions of interest via email. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us as below. Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis.

You are warmly welcome to send your application with a personal letter and CV by February 28.

For more information contact:

Annika Malmros Borell, administrator phone: 08 587 863 65
[email protected]

Maria Berg Ahlin, unit manager somatics phone: 08 587 863 64
[email protected]

Linn Jeppsson, acting unit manager dementia phone: 08 587 849 59
[email protected]

More information and union representatives can be found at Vallentuna Municipality (https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/).