Custodian at Stureby Care and Nursing Home

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 someone who wants 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 of working for a 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.

Do you want an independent and varied job where your skills make a difference every day?

As a custodian at Stureby Care and Nursing Home, you play a key role in creating a safe, functional, and pleasant environment for both residents and staff.

Here you will have a practical job with clear responsibilities where no day is the same.

Welcome to us

Stureby Care and Nursing Home is a municipal nursing home with 90 apartments for people with dementia. About 100 employees work in teams focused on safety, quality, and person-centered care. We work from a salutogenic approach where the goal is to create a meaningful and functional everyday life for both residents and staff.

We offer

Learn more here about what we offer

Your role

As a custodian, you are responsible for ensuring that premises, inventory, and common areas function well and contribute to a safe and pleasant working environment. You will work preventively but also be able to find quick solutions. The role involves a great deal of personal responsibility and independent work in combination with close collaboration with the operations, property owners, and external contractors. Service is a central part of the assignment, with daily contact with residents, staff, and relatives.

The position is broad and varied. About 70% of the work is located at Stureby Care and Nursing Home, while the remaining 30% is within other operations.

Your main tasks

• Property maintenance, supervision, and rounds.
• Troubleshooting, minor repairs, and fault reporting.
• Systematic fire safety work and occupational safety work.
• Furnishing, relocations, and assembly and repair of inventory.
• Service and support to staff and residents.
• Handling of keys and locking systems.
• Orders and goods reception.
• Mail handling.
• Maintenance of storage and material inventory.
• Other tasks that the operations consider relevant within the custodian assignment (room inspections, handling of food waste, etc.).

Your skills and experience

Requirements for the position

• High school education, preferably with a focus on property maintenance, or other relevant education.
• Experience working as a custodian or in property maintenance.
• Good ability to communicate in Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Good IT skills and ability to work in digital administrative and communication systems, such as the Office suite.
• B driver's license.

It is meritorious if you also have:

• Education in technology, construction, or craftsmanship.
• Previous experience working as a school custodian.
• Experience in systematic fire safety work.

To fit well and thrive in the role, you need to be social, outgoing, and have a high degree of service orientation. You are both flexible and a problem solver, while good planning ability is of great importance. You need to be able to work independently and have the ability to take your own initiatives and prioritize. It is essential that you can collaborate and maintain good relationships with the nursing home and group housing staff, managers, contractors, and other external partners.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities.

Other

We recruit without the personal letter in this recruitment to strengthen the focus on the competencies and experiences required for this role. In assessing your application, we will only base our decision on your CV and a number of questions you will need to answer when applying for the position.

Probationary employment may be applied. The City of Stockholm works with competency-based recruitment aimed at focusing on each person's competencies and thus counteracting 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 people with disabilities, social services, preventive and safety-creating 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 built. About 18,000 new apartments are planned by 2030.

To work with the elderly and people with disabilities in their homes at 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 issuance.