Summer Substitute as a Care Assistant at Nacka Senior Center

Are you a trained care assistant looking to use your knowledge to create safe and quality care this summer? Nacka Senior Center is seeking dedicated care assistants who want to ensure safe and person-centered care for our clients. We offer a workplace where you can utilize your skills and develop in your professional role.

Your Mission

Nacka Senior Center consists of four residences located in Finntorp, Ektorp, Saltsjöbaden, and Saltsjö-Boo. Each residence has both somatic and dementia-oriented departments, social activities, day services, and its own kitchens with meals prepared from scratch.

As a summer substitute, you will work based on the individual needs of the clients and be responsible for care, hygiene, responding to alarms, and documentation. Working hours include days, evenings, weekends (07:00–21:00), and nights (21:00–07:00). We hope you can start right away and take at least eight shifts per month. During the summer period, you will work according to a fixed schedule for at least 6 weeks from mid-June to the end of September.

Requirements for the Position

You should have:

• Professional certificate or complete grades as a care assistant
• Experience in elderly care
• Experience and knowledge in:
• Low-affect responses
• Previous delegation for tube feeding, insulin, and medication
• Ability to make independent care assessments
• Dementia diseases and responses
• Experience in documentation
• Very good Swedish in speech and writing
• At least 18 years old

Meritorious: knowledge of how to take vital parameters and sampling, such as blood tests.

Is This You?

We are looking for someone who is confident in their professional competence, takes responsibility, and works independently. You have good collaboration skills, a professional demeanor, and the ability to meet clients with empathy, attentiveness, and respect. The work involves lifting and transfers, which requires good physical ability. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We Offer

As a substitute, you will be employed by the Stab Competence Supply within Nacka Municipality, which is responsible for coordinating and ensuring the quality of staffing care personnel during short-term absences and monthly substitutes. As a summer substitute, you will work at one or more of our facilities depending on how much you want to work this summer. We offer you the opportunity to work as a temporary substitute both before and after your summer substitute position.

Criminal Record Extract

An extract from the Police (school/preschool) is required upon employment. We recommend digital ordering for faster processing.

Interested?

We recruit without a personal letter and instead ask you to answer the selection questions in connection with your application. The assessment is based on your CV and the questions you answer in the application. Selection is ongoing, and the process includes group interviews and references.

Warm welcome to your application!

Nacka is one of Sweden's most attractive and reputable municipalities. With a focus on goals, results, sustainable employee engagement, and continuous development, Nacka strives to be the best at being a municipality. Nacka Municipality is the employer for you who innovates and makes a difference with great freedom.

Welfare Community Service is responsible for the municipality's production of welfare services and operates, among other things, special accommodations for the elderly and people with special needs, daily activities, youth centers, music schools, and cultural centers. In total, we have over forty units within four business areas with 1400 employees, and together we generate approximately 600 million kronor. Our service is characterized by efficient resource utilization, strong citizen influence, and great freedom of choice. Within all operations, the ambition is to create the best conditions for creativity, innovation, and knowledge sharing.