Care Assistant/Nursing Assistant Position at Ekbacken Care Home

The position is placed within the Health and Care Administration, which is one of eight administrations in Linköping Municipality. The Health and Care Administration is responsible for the municipality's elderly care, health care, authority exercise, ordering of services, and operates care and support in its own right. We work with a focus on quality and professionalism to make every day as good as possible for the residents of Linköping who need us. Do you want to improve the daily life, future, and quality of life for the people of Linköping? With us, you can combine important tasks with a meaningful everyday life. Welcome to us!

Your Responsibilities

Are you a person with experience in elderly care who is driven to provide care, support, and assistance based on individual needs? Then the position as a care assistant/nursing assistant at Ekbacken Care Home might be for you!

We are now looking for three new colleagues at Ekbacken Care Home who want to become part of our community. The positions are permanent contracts with a working rate of 60-100%. For one of the permanent positions, the working hours are scheduled for evenings and weekends. For the other two positions, the working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, and weekends.

With us, you will work to meet the individual needs of our customers. Together with your colleagues, you are an important piece in creating a meaningful everyday life for our customers. You will work to create opportunities for social interaction and participate in various social activities. The position includes various care tasks, such as assistance with transfers, personal hygiene, household chores, and medical interventions. We work based on IBIC (individual needs in focus) with the individual's best interests in mind. Our work is also characterized by a salutogenic approach, where we focus on the healthy aspects and draw out the person's own abilities.

In this position, you will have the opportunity for development in your role and you will be assigned to be the contact person for some of our customers. This means that you will participate in welcome conversations where you plan support measures together with the customer. You will be responsible for the customer's implementation plan and document in the Treserva system. The role also includes maintaining close contact with relatives and other partners.

Your Workplace

Ekbacken Care Home is located near nature in the southern districts with good connections to central Linköping. Nearby is Ekholmen's center and nice walking paths for recreation. The residence has three pavilions with a total of 56 places. Three of the apartments are so-called duplicates and are intended for couples who want to live together. Adjacent to the apartments are common areas such as kitchens and living rooms with a large balcony. This position means that you will work in all three pavilions.

We put extra effort into activities for our residents. We organize various offerings every week, and the residents participate based on their needs and interests. We are fortunate to have a leisure center that is open every weekday and has a varied program with everything from walks, reading aloud, chair gymnastics, baking, film screenings to pub and sing-along evenings once a term.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who has a completed high school education, preferably as a nursing assistant, as well as experience in support, care, and assistance. To have good prerequisites with us, it is desirable to have experience and knowledge of working with individuals in somatic, dementia, and palliative care. It is a merit if you have experience with the IBIC method, a salutogenic approach, and knowledge of low-arousal responses. We consider it a given that you take delegations such as medication, insulin, and feeding tubes.

Work in elderly care involves a lot of customer contact and documentation, which means we require you to be able to communicate orally and in writing in Swedish. You should have the ability to use digital tools in your work, and we want you to have previous experience documenting in journal systems.

As a person, you are self-driven and take responsibility for your tasks and drive your work forward. You also work well with others and listen and communicate clearly. It is also important that you have an empathetic ability that allows you to understand others' perspectives and situations.

This recruitment includes a language test. Upon employment, you will need to present a criminal record from the Police.

Additional Information

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Start date: By agreement

Employment type: Permanent employment

Working rate: 60-100%

Number of vacancies: 5

Ref. no: 16308

In this application, do not attach a personal letter.

Your engagement makes us better. Within Linköping Municipality, there are many opportunities, a wealth of knowledge, and various areas of responsibility. We work together where your sense of responsibility is a valuable driving force. With your engagement, you contribute to making Linköping even better.