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Syrengården Elderly Care Home

On Gotland, there are several special care homes distributed across six locations. We who work here have the mission of helping the elderly around the clock with various measures to create conditions for a meaningful and dignified life. With the user at the center, we work with individual implementation plans based on our values: trust, care, and participation.

Syrengården is a dementia care home centrally located in Roma, about two miles from Visby. The facility has 19 places distributed over two floors. Here you will find a large garden with walking paths, a pavilion, and proximity to the forest.

Syrengården is certified according to the Silviahemmet care philosophy. With us, assistant nurses, care assistants, a registered nurse, a unit manager, and rehabilitation staff work closely together.

Now we are looking for an assistant nurse who wants to become part of our team!

Your Tasks

As an assistant nurse, you will, among other things:

• Perform routine nursing tasks such as personal care, household chores, medication administration, and other delegated health care measures, with a focus on safety and continuity
• Contribute to a meaningful and individually adapted daily life through guidance, activities, and social interaction
• Work with a calm and respectful approach based on each person's cognitive ability and daily condition
• Participate in and perform palliative care and provide support to both residents and relatives in the final stages of life
• Work based on IBIC and person-centered care with a focus on the individual's needs, habits, and life history
• Act as a contact person, including establishing and following up on implementation plans
• Document, maintain contact with relatives, and handle certain administrative tasks
• Collaborate with the unit manager, registered nurse, and rehabilitation staff to create safe care
• Be involved in developing work methods and routines in the operation
• Be flexible and, if needed, support other departments, for example within somatic care
• Work days, evenings, and every other weekend

Who Are You?

To be employed as an assistant nurse, you must have the right to use the protected job title according to current regulations.

It is an asset to have further education in dementia care, for example Silviasyster, Dementia ABC/ABC Plus, BPSD, Star-marked, person-centered care, low-arousal approach, or palliative care. Experience in mentoring and competence development is also an asset.

As a person, you are stable, secure, and show genuine engagement in your professional role. You are proactive and take responsibility for driving the work forward, while being flexible and able to adapt to the changing needs of the operation and the residents. You have good collaboration skills and actively contribute to a positive work climate where you together create safety and quality in care.

You are also relationship-building and build trusting relationships with residents, relatives, and colleagues. With a development-oriented approach, you contribute to improving work methods and quality in the operation, while sharing knowledge and supporting your colleagues in their daily work.

As part of the employment process, an approved extract from the police criminal record register, so-called "Work at home with the elderly and people with disabilities," must be presented.

Work at home with the elderly and people with disabilities, e-service | Police Authority (https://www.polisen.se/tjanster/arbete-i-hemmet-med-alldre-och-personer-med-funktionsnedsattning/)

Interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis – welcome to apply!

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 are social services, home health care, 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 has municipal, health, and medical care tasks and regional development responsibility in one and the same organization. This, together with our island location, creates conditions for good cooperation across our areas of operation.

We have over 7,000 employees. Together we work for a sustainable, inclusive, and well-being society for everyone who visits, lives, and works on Gotland. We are driving the creation of 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 like to become more! If you want information about Gotland as a place to live and work, read more at http://gotland.com/flytta-hit/ (http://gotland.com/flytta-hit/)

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Other Information

Region Gotland works according to a competence-based recruitment method aimed at seeing each person's competence and thereby counteracting 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 see diversity as a strength and welcome applicants with different backgrounds and genders.

The position is filled on the condition that no employee with priority rights claims it.

As the external environment changes, Region Gotland is working increasingly with quality and safety in the recruitment process. This means that you as a candidate 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 and proof of identity.

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