Care Assistant at Tuvängen Elderly Home

Lerum Municipality is known for its scenic locations with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects to grow significantly in the coming years. Lerum is only a 20-minute commute from Gothenburg and is currently undergoing an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Recently, Dagens Samhälle awarded Lerum as the winner in the category of metropolitan municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, healthcare, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business, and future factors like digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

Are you a care assistant ready for new challenges? Do you want to influence and develop the future of elderly care? Do you want to feel that the work you do is meaningful and important? Do you want to work in team collaboration? Then you are the one we are looking for!

Tuvängen Elderly Home consists of three permanent departments focusing on both somatic and dementia-related issues. Our workplace is characterized by professionalism and a striving for good quality. We develop our work to meet the needs of those we are here for. Here, a fantastic team of caregivers, care assistants, specialist care assistants, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, unit coordinators, and unit managers work together to provide the best service to our guests.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of a care assistant at Tuvängen involves having a professional approach to residents, relatives, and colleagues. You will support residents in their daily lives towards the goals set in their care plans. Working under delegation is necessary, as is independently maintaining social documentation and creating care plans on the computer in Treserva. It is important to actively participate as an employee in the development of the workplace. You have the opportunity to apply for a representative role and specialize in a particular area where ongoing training is provided.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who is a trained care assistant. You have extensive knowledge in nursing and a drive to learn new things. It is highly meritorious if you also have experience working with individuals with dementia. Since all colleagues are expected to collaborate flexibly across the facility to best utilize each other's skills and our resources, we see that you are good at collaboration and willing to cooperate.

As a person, we see that you are engaged, responsible, and flexible. Like us, you are passionate about the elderly, find elderly care exciting, and want to make a difference for the residents at Tuvängen Elderly Home.

To succeed in your work at Tuvängen Elderly Home, we also see that you enjoy the fact that the content of the work often changes and that you work together in a team that highlights each other's strengths. Helping our residents to a meaningful existence gives you energy and joy. You are professional, attentive, and respectful in your interactions.

To succeed in the role, good knowledge of spoken and written Swedish and computer skills are required. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. There is an opportunity to work full-time or part-time. Start date by agreement.

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Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, and weekends. The position can be offered as full-time or part-time.

Before employment, a valid extract from the Police Authority's criminal record is required.

Start date is by agreement.

Interviews may be conducted continuously during the application period.

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our governance is based on the global goals of Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, the organization, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and degrading treatment.

We care about a good working environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee with us, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as wellness grants and employee care programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: https://lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be a requirement to use personal Bank-ID in the role for authentication in, for example, system logins or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

Warm welcome with your application!

In preparation for this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly request not to be contacted for further offers of competency mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.