Care Assistant at Vallastaden Nursing 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 services, and provides care and support in-house. We work with quality awareness and professionalism to make every day as good as possible for the residents of Linköping who need us. Do you want to improve the everyday life, future, and quality of life for the residents of Linköping? With us, you can combine important tasks with a meaningful everyday life. Welcome to us!

Your Responsibilities

We are now looking for a new colleague at Vallastaden Nursing Home who wants to be part of our wonderful team. The position is scheduled for days, evenings, and weekends with a full-time employment rate of 100%.

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. The role of a care assistant also includes care tasks such as assistance with transfers, personal hygiene, household chores, and medical interventions.

We work based on IBIC (individual needs in focus) and with the individual's best interests in mind. Our work is based on national values and a salutogenic approach, where we promote health and highlight the individual's own abilities.

In this position, you will have the opportunity for development in your role as you will be assigned a contact person for a number of customers. This means that you will participate in welcome conversations where you, together with the customer, plan support measures. 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

The Health and Care Administration provides elderly care in municipal management in Linköping. Here, there are approximately 1200 permanent employees and a large number of substitutes. Linköping Municipality has a long and well-established experience in care and support for our elderly residents.

Vallastaden Nursing Home is located in the new district of Vallastaden on Lärdomsgatan. It is a residence for people with dementia. The building has a total of 60 apartments spread over three floors. There is also a spa and a light therapy room. Our guests have access to a beautiful outdoor environment, including a greenhouse that can be used year-round. In our courtyard, there is a pleasant forest environment with a walking path where one can take the opportunity to balance train at the various stations around the path.

Now take the chance to become part of this wonderful team!

Who You Are

We are looking for someone who is a trained care assistant and has previous experience of work or internships in support, care, and assistance. If you have prior experience working with people with dementia, we see it as a positive. It is also meritorious if you have knowledge of a salutogenic approach, low-arousal responses, and experience with the IBIC method.

Work in elderly care involves a lot of customer contact and documentation, which means that we require you to be able to communicate verbally and in writing in Swedish. You have the ability to use digital tools in your work, and it is an advantage if you have experience documenting in journal systems.

As a person, you are self-driven and take responsibility for your tasks and push 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.

In this recruitment process, language tests may be used, and we warmly welcome your application!

Additional Information

When you apply for a position in Linköping Municipality, you register your application by logging in via e-identification (such as BankID or FrejaID) instead of using an email address. If you lack e-identification, please contact the responsible HR consultant or manager, and they will help you register your application.

Start date: By agreement

Employment form: Permanent

Employment rate: 100%

Number of vacancies: 1

Ref. no: 16735

In this application, you do not attach a personal letter.

Together we shape the city of the future. Linköping is one of Europe's most innovative cities and a municipality of opportunities. With energy, courage, and heart, we make our city even better. We are driven by curiosity and the desire to find new solutions. And by enhancing everyday life and improving the quality of life for our residents.