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Are you a care assistant looking for a new career opportunity? As a group leader, you will take on a leadership role and coach our employees to make a difference for those living with us. All group leaders go through our leadership program where you will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills through our educational organization, Lära.

We are constantly evolving and looking for someone who wants to grow with us – together we make the world a little better, one person at a time! With us, you will have engaged colleagues, skilled managers, training, career opportunities, and several benefits.

About the role

As a group leader, your primary task is to coach and work in daily care with the team. This means you are a role model for your employees, and through your strong commitment, you create a good working atmosphere in the group every day. You will work during the day, on weekends, and in the evenings.

• Close leadership: The role exists in our organization to ensure close leadership and provide support. You have personnel and planning responsibility for your work group and are involved in developing and ensuring the quality of the operations in accordance with Vardaga's concept. This is done by being present and supportive, answering questions, leading, giving feedback, and acknowledging your employees in their daily work. You have several group leader colleagues, and you collaborate, exchange ideas, and share experiences.

• Participation: As a group leader, you report to the operations manager and have the opportunity to influence through your participation in the local management group.

About Villa Salabacke

In the fall of 2017, the new elderly and dementia care facility Villa Salabacke opened in Uppsala with 72 apartments.

At Villa Salabacke, there is a larger common area where we meet to socialize. This can involve activities such as exercise or painting, or we celebrate holidays or enjoy afternoon coffee while playing bingo. Villa Salabacke also has two rooftop terraces that we use to stimulate all the senses of the residents.

• Activity coordinator: We work systematically with activities and have an activity coordinator who develops and carries out meaningful activities with our residents.

• Dementia certification: We are a dementia-certified facility, which means that all of us who work here are trained in dementia and response through the Dementia Academy. You will also undergo this training.

• Young Care: We have a collaboration with the company Young Care. This means that a team of young people aged 14–18 visits us on weekends and holidays. Young Care engages in various activities with us who work here to enhance the quality of life for the residents.

• Animals in care: Here we work with animals in care, and we have regular visits from therapy animals.

Your experience and knowledge

You are a trained care assistant, have good computer skills, and speak and write fluent Swedish. Experience in elderly care and leadership is an advantage for this role. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We want you to be:

• clear and create participation

• coaching and able to motivate and create engagement among our employees.

• skilled at giving and receiving feedback

• unpretentious and quick to learn

• independent and cooperative

• business-minded by wanting and being able to steer and follow up on operations based on quality goals and financial frameworks

Here are some highlights of our offer to you:

Professional development: You have access to Vardaga's internal training organization, Lära, with a variety of courses.

Benefits portal with discounts: Purchase, for example, movie tickets and public transport at good prices.

Other

Salary: We apply individual salary setting

Start date: By agreement

Application deadline: 2026-02-22, but recruitment is ongoing.

Background check: A criminal record extract must be presented upon potential employment

Of course, we also have collective agreements and insurance.

If you have questions, please contact:

Operations Manager Frida Hultgren at email [email protected]

Please note that it is not possible to apply via email. If you want to know more about what it is like to work at Vardaga, please read more and meet some of our employees here.

Union contact: Vision, [email protected]

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If you are called for an interview, you need to be able to prove that you have the right to work in Sweden by showing that you have citizenship within the EU/EES or a valid work permit.

At Vardaga's more than 100 facilities across Sweden, we offer elderly care where every day is equally important. With us, you will meet expertise and security at every nursing home, short-term accommodation, in home care, and day activities. We aim to be quality-leading in everything we do, and our vision is to make the world a little better, one person at a time. Our employees work with each individual's quality of life and security in focus. Vardaga is part of the Ambea corporate group. www.vardaga.se