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Work at Pjäsen Elderly Care Home in Visby – Care Assistant / Nursing Assistant

At Region Gotland, you can grow and develop, both as an individual and together with others. When you work with us, you contribute to making Gotland an even better place for people in all stages of life. We make each other better.

Pjäsen Elderly Care Home

Pjäsen is a modern elderly care home centrally located in Visby, with a total of 100 apartments distributed across four floors.

We are proud of our broad competence and our engaged employees who support each other across our 10 departments. Three of these departments are specialized for residents with dementia.

At our facility, the resident is always at the center, and we work with individual care plans based on our shared values: trust, care, and participation.

Do you want to create a meaningful daily life at Pjäsen Elderly Care Home? We are currently looking for a Nursing Assistant or Care Assistant for a temporary position from June 1, 2026, to August 31, 2027.

Your Responsibilities

As a Nursing Assistant/Care Assistant, you will, among other things:

• Create a sense of security and support users together with colleagues.
• Help, motivate, and support users with nursing interventions based on individual needs and wishes.
• Perform personal care and medical interventions on delegation from licensed personnel.
• Be responsible for cooking, escorting, shopping, cleaning, and laundry.
• Work based on individualized care plans and document with the user at the center.
• Act as a fixed care contact/personal contact.
• Collaborate daily with home healthcare, rehabilitation, social workers, and other home care groups.
• Use digital planning tools in daily work.
• Work flexibly between our departments and floors as needed.

Working hours follow a basic schedule with day and evening shifts, as well as work every other weekend.

Who Are You?

To be employed as a Nursing Assistant, you must have the right to use the protected job title according to current regulations.

If you apply as a Care Assistant, you must have completed an upper secondary education. It is an asset to have some form of education with a focus on care and welfare, such as a healthcare assistant qualification.

It is an asset if you have experience in elderly care and experience working with people with cognitive or medical disabilities, or in palliative care.

We are looking for someone with a high degree of personal maturity who can work independently with a secure and responsible approach. You are flexible and easily adapt to the needs of both the operation and the users. You contribute to a positive work climate and work well with colleagues, relatives, and other professional groups. You have pedagogical insight and can treat users in a clear, respectful, and individualized manner. Furthermore, you are service-oriented and have a holistic view where you always place the well-being of the elderly at the center.

Since all documentation and communication takes place in Swedish, it is important that you have good command of the language, both spoken and written.

Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis. We warmly welcome your application!

Important Information:

• Before a job offer is made, an acceptable extract from the Police Register must be presented: Link to the Police (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/arbete-i-hemmet-med-aldre-och-personer-med-funktionsnedsattning-e-tjanst/).
• If you are called for an interview, you must be able to prove with a document that you are allowed to work in Sweden (passport, national ID card, or personal certificate): Link to the Tax Agency (https://skatteverket.se/privat/folkbokforing/personbevis.4.18e1b10334ebe8bc80003671.html).

About the Social Administration

As part of Region Gotland, we work at the Social Administration with social measures such as counseling, support, and treatment. Our areas of operation include social services, home healthcare, elderly care, and care for people with disabilities across all of Gotland. Around the clock, we meet people of all ages and with different needs; children, families, adults, and the elderly. Together, we enable good conditions for care, support, and service throughout life.

About Region Gotland

Region Gotland is not only Gotland's largest employer; we are also the only region in Sweden that combines municipal, healthcare, and regional development responsibilities within a single organization. Together with our island location, this creates conditions for good collaboration across our operational areas.

We have over 7,000 employees. Together, we work towards a sustainable, inclusive, and well-functioning society for everyone who visits, lives, and works on Gotland. We are driving a safe and sustainable development across the entire island.

Gotland is a fantastic place to live, with a rich cultural life, pristine nature, and a creative entrepreneurial spirit. We are over 61,000 people who have chosen to live here year-round, and we would love to have more! If you want information about Gotland as a place to live, read more at gotland.com (https://gotland.com/leva-bo/flytta-hit/).

Through our Instagram account @viarregiongotland, we show the breadth of our professions and the significance of our work for society. Every week, a new employee showcases their daily work life.

Other Information

Region Gotland works according to a competence-based recruitment method aimed at seeing each person's competence and thereby countering discrimination. We place great importance on personal suitability in accordance with the competencies described in the advertisement. We strive for an even gender distribution and view diversity as a strength, welcoming applicants with different backgrounds and genders.

The position will be filled provided that no employee with priority rights claims it.

As the external environment changes, Region Gotland is increasingly working with quality and security in the recruitment process. This means that as a candidate, you may be subject to certain checks prior to employment. You will receive information about which checks the position you are applying for may be subject to before or during the interview.

Before all employments, you as a candidate need to show ID documents and a personal certificate.

We decline offers for advertising and recruitment assistance.