Vacant job

Are you a nursing assistant looking for a new career opportunity? We are now seeking group leaders for the elderly care home Kavlagården. In the role of group leader, you will take on a leadership role and coach our employees to make a difference for those living with us. All group leaders participate in our leadership program where you will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills through our educational organization Lära.

About the role

As a group leader, your primary task is to coach and work in daily care activities together with the team. This means that you are a role model for your employees and through your strong commitment, you create a good working atmosphere in the group every day. You will work during the day, on weekends, and in the evenings.

• Close leadership: The role exists in our organization to ensure close leadership and provide support. You have personnel and planning responsibility for your work group and are involved in developing and quality assuring the operations in accordance with Vardaga's concept. This is done by being present and supportive, answering questions, leading, giving feedback, and confirming your employees in their daily work. You have several group leader colleagues, and you collaborate, exchange ideas, and share experiences.

• Participation: As a group leader, you report to the operations manager and have the opportunity to influence through your participation in the local management team.

About Kavlagården

Vardaga won the procurement for Kavlagården and took over operations on February 2, 2026. Kavlagården is a modern elderly care home with 46 bright apartments, distributed across five units. Here we provide care for both individuals with somatic illnesses and individuals with dementia – always focusing on the individual's needs and quality of life.

Your experience and knowledge

You are a trained nursing assistant, have good computer skills, and speak and write fluent Swedish. Experience in elderly care and leadership is an advantage for this role. We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

We want you to be:

• clear and create participation

• coaching and have the ability to motivate and create engagement among our employees.

• skilled at giving and receiving feedback

• unpretentious and quick to learn

• independent and cooperative

• business-minded by wanting and having the ability to manage and follow up on operations based on quality goals and financial frameworks

Here are some highlights of our offer to you:

Leadership program: All group leaders participate in our leadership program where you will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills through our educational organization Lära.

Professional development: You have access to Vardaga's internal educational organization Lära with a variety of courses.

Benefits portal with discounts: Purchase, for example, movie tickets and public transport at good prices.

Other

Employment rate: 100% (80% care work, 20% administrative)

Salary: We apply individual salary setting

Start date: by agreement

Application deadline: April 12, 2026

Background check: A criminal record extract must be presented upon possible employment. As part of our work environment efforts, random drug testing may occur.

Of course, we also have collective agreements and insurance.

If you have questions, please contact: [email protected] Please note that you cannot apply via email. If you want to know more about what it is like to work at Vardaga, please read more and meet some of our employees here.

Union contact: Vision, [email protected]

Apply here

Welcome to apply via the “Send application” button below. Do not wait to apply as we are selecting continuously.

If you are called for an interview, you need to be able to prove that you have the right to work in Sweden by showing that you have citizenship within the EU/EES or a valid work permit.

Invitation to chat interview with Hubert AI

As part of our efforts towards a fair and competency-based recruitment process, we have chosen to collaborate with Hubert.ai in this process.

After applying, you will be invited to a chat-based interview with our virtual recruitment assistant Hubert.

Please complete it as soon as you have the opportunity. The interview takes about 15 minutes to complete.

Feel free to check this article before the interview for tips and tricks: https://www.hubert.ai/insights/tips-och-rad-infor-din-forsta-hubert-intervju More information on how we will handle your personal data and your rights as a registered person can be found here.

At Vardaga's more than 100 homes across Sweden, we offer elderly care where every day is equally important. With us, you will meet expertise and security at every elderly home, short-term accommodation, in home care, and day activities. We aim to be quality-leading in everything we do, and our vision is to make the world a little better, one person at a time. Our employees work with each individual's quality of life and security in focus. Vardaga is part of the Ambea corporate group. www.vardaga.se