Care Assistant/Nursing Assistant 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 services, and provides care and support on its own. 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 daily 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 Tasks

Are you a person with experience in elderly care and 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 for the night shift at Ekbacken Care Home who want to be part of our community. The positions are permanent with a working percentage of 60-100%. Working hours are scheduled for awake night shifts, both weekdays 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 Center) with the individual's best interests in focus. Our work is also characterized by a salutogenic approach, where we focus on the healthy and draw out the person's own abilities.

In this position, you will have the opportunity for development in your role and will be assigned to be a contact person for some of our customers.

Your Workplace

Ekbacken Care Home is located close to nature in the southern districts with good connections to central Linköping. Nearby, you will find Ekholmen's center and beautiful walking paths for recreation. The home has three pavilions with a total of 56 places. Three of our apartments are so-called doubles and are intended for couples who wish to live together. Adjacent to the apartments, there are common areas such as a kitchen and living room with a large balcony. This position means that you will work in all three pavilions.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who has a completed high school education, preferably as a nursing assistant, and 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 somatics, dementia, and palliative care. It is an advantage if you have experience with the IBIC method, a salutogenic approach, and knowledge of low-arousal responses. We consider it essential that you can 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 that you can communicate verbally and in writing in Swedish. You should be able 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: As agreed

Employment type: Permanent

Working percentage: 60-100%

Number of vacancies: 3

Ref. no: 16395

In this application, do not attach a personal letter.

Your commitment 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 commitment, you contribute to making Linköping even better.