Care Assistant at Smedjegården Elderly Home

Jönköping Municipality is a large employer with hundreds of different job roles. We are growing in line with the municipality's development with more residents, more housing, and a larger offering. We are always on the lookout for new talent - employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences, united by the common drive to create a better municipality to visit, live, work, and reside in.

Do you want an important and meaningful job where you can help others? Great, then we have the job for you, as we are now looking for more care assistant colleagues for Smedjegården Elderly Home!

Your New Job

The operations are based on the values of elderly care: Social services' care for the elderly should focus on ensuring that elderly individuals can live a dignified life and feel well-being (SoL 5 chap 4§).

As a care assistant with us, you are a bearer of social services' vision, operational idea, and values. You provide care and support based on a rehabilitative approach, which means that the individual should be activated as much as possible in the care process to enhance or maintain their functional ability. In your role, you work health-promoting, which means focusing on the healthy aspects and the opportunities and resources available to each citizen. All care is tailored to the citizen's needs, wishes, and conditions.

You have a significant role where you work with person-centered care and support. Together with your colleagues, you contribute to creating a valuable everyday life for our elderly with a high level of service and social stimulation. The tasks include personal care, daily chores such as cleaning and laundry, social activities, medication management, and various responsibilities in the form of representative assignments. You also actively work with contact person assignments, implementation plans, and social documentation. You administer medication on delegation from a nurse, carry out certain rehabilitation efforts on delegation from an occupational therapist/physiotherapist, and continuously report verbally and in writing to the unit manager/nurse and colleagues.

Your Competence

You who are applying are primarily a trained care assistant, preferably with extensive experience in care and support work. Experience in dementia care or dementia specialist training, as well as knowledge of Combine, is meritorious. If you have a specialist care assistant education, we also see that as an advantage.

Alternatively, you may be a care aide with longer experience in elderly care.

You have good computer skills and command Swedish well in spoken, written, and reading comprehension, as there is contact with tenants and relatives, as well as documentation, reading information, and various digital solutions in daily work. You should be flexible and able to contribute to quality and development work in our operations. You should be engaged and responsible and able to convey security to our citizens. The job requires physical mobility. You will work irregular hours with shifts during the day, evening, and weekends throughout the year.

In the recruitment process, we will therefore place great importance on your personal suitability and maturity!

We Offer You

We offer you a secure employment and a flexible and varied job alongside a group of wonderful and competent colleagues. At Smedjegården, we value good interactions with both colleagues and our tenants. Of course, as an employee within Jönköping Municipality, you will benefit from a range of general benefits such as paid vacation from the first year of employment and wellness grants. Read about our benefits here (https://www.jonkoping.se/jobba-hos-oss/jonkopings-kommun-som-arbetsgivare-/detta-far-du-nar-du-jobbar-hos-oss).

Welcome to Us

Smedjegården Elderly Home is located by the Taberg River in the picturesque Norrahammar. We have three dementia units and a short-term unit for individuals with dementia. Adjacent to the elderly home, there is a fantastic garden and courtyard used by both staff and tenants. We are a stable team of about 40 employees with good cohesion, and our user survey also shows satisfied tenants. We are now looking for three new employees who want to be part of our team in the dementia department!

Elderly care should meet the individual needs of the elderly for care, support, and security in accordance with the operational goals, guidelines, and prevailing conditions. Elderly care should collaborate with citizens and organizations and work together for a common approach.

Good to Know

Within Jönköping Municipality, we offer equal pay for care assistant positions, regardless of which elderly home you work at. This means that your salary is not affected by your choice of workplace. All our elderly homes have similar working hours, and we follow applicable legislation, including rules on rest periods and weekend work.

The recruitment concerns one permanent full-time position, with start date as agreed. Working hours are scheduled for day, evening, and weekend shifts, and you will work every other weekend. Jönköping works with full-time as the norm and always offers 100% employment. Resource shifts may involve working across all units of the operation.

In your application, we would like you to include a personal letter, a CV, and attached diploma and employment certificates. All your employment must be verifiable, and it should be clear what extent you have worked, what type of employment has been relevant, and what position you have held.

Before employment is finalized, a background check will be conducted where you must present an extract from the criminal record. In this recruitment, the extract called “Check your own information in the criminal record” applies.

Want to Know More?

Recruiting Managers:
Josephine Svanberg Faizi
Unit Manager
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Fredrika Bäcklund
Unit Manager
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Union: Union contact (https://www.jonkoping.se/fackligasoc)

Together we make Jönköping Municipality better – for everyone. Come and work with us. Welcome to apply for the position of care assistant at Smedjegården Elderly Home!

Jönköping Municipality strives to offer an attractive workplace that is free from discrimination and provides equal opportunities for all.

In preparation for the recruitment work, we have made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We kindly but firmly decline all calls regarding advertising and recruitment assistance.