Vacant job

Do you want to make a real difference in people's daily lives? We are now looking for an engaged specialist assistant nurse in dementia care who wants to contribute to developing and strengthening the quality of our care. With us, you will have a central role in a competent team where collaboration, development, and person-centered care are in focus. We look forward to receiving your application!

Your Role

As a specialist assistant nurse in dementia care, you are a key person in the work of developing, ensuring quality, and driving daily care forward. In this role, you participate in the planning, coordination, and follow-up of daily work and actively contribute to the development of the operations. You mentor colleagues and support their professional development, while also initiating and leading improvement work related to routines and working methods. Your duties also include close collaboration with nurses, unit managers, and other professions, as well as maintaining a continuous and trusting dialogue with relatives. Working hours are during daytime, Monday to Friday.

Description of the Workplace

Åsgården is a care and support residence with a total of 57 places, distributed across three group homes for people with dementia. There is also a short-term care facility with 12 places. The different units of the operation work closely together, creating good conditions for both secure and quality care and a supportive and positive work climate.

We have staff on duty around the clock. A nurse is on-site during daytime on weekdays, and municipal nurses are available at other times. The work is based on IBIC (Individualized Person-centered Care), where we place great emphasis on individual adaptation, participation, and quality in every intervention.

At our facility, daily life is characterized by a person-centered approach where recognition, security, and meaningful moments are in focus. In the team, engaged assistant nurses, nurses, rehabilitation staff, coordinators, and managers work together to create the best possible quality of life for the residents.

Your Qualifications

We are looking for you who are trained as an assistant nurse with a protected professional title and further education as a specialist assistant nurse in dementia care. You have experience working in short-term care and/or dementia residences, as well as experience working according to BPSD (Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia). If you also have experience in mentoring and improvement work within care and support, we view this very positively.

You have good ability to express yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing. It is an advantage if you can also provide support to relatives in English. A Category B driver's license is desirable but not mandatory.

As a person, you have good collaboration skills and relate to others in a listening and flexible manner. You build good relationships through openness and dialogue and contribute to a well-functioning collaboration, both within your own unit and with other partners. You have the ability to lead, motivate, and support others in working towards common goals, as well as coordinate groups and serve as a natural reference point in the operation. Through your engagement, you create participation and job satisfaction. You are communicative and ensure that messages are conveyed and that expectations are clear for all involved.

Great importance will be attached to personal qualities.

We process applications continuously, so do not wait to send yours. Welcome with your application!

In connection with recruitment, we may request extracts from the criminal record register and the suspicion register. This is done in accordance with current legislation and as part of our suitability assessment.

What We Offer

Your well-being is important to us! Söderhamn Municipality works actively with health, wellness, and working environment. With us, you have a wellness allowance and access to a gym. For us, it is also important that there is a balance between work and leisure, and we are keen that our employees get the chance to recover as needed. Read more about some of our benefits: Benefits and Advantages - Söderhamn Municipality (https://www.soderhamn.se).

In the archipelago municipality of Söderhamn - where Hälsingland meets the sea, we think new and big. We have the desire to grow to 28,000 inhabitants and start every day from the "Söderhamnare" (residents) and their needs when we shape and develop our operations. Together we make a difference for individuals and society.

We use competency-based recruitment to create an inclusive and fair process. This means that we assess candidates based on their competencies, experiences, and abilities in an equal and equitable manner. Our goal is an objective recruitment where everyone has the same opportunity to show what they can contribute.

In this recruitment, we have already made our choices of advertising channels and cooperation partners. We kindly but firmly decline all forms of assistance with the recruitment from outside parties.

Open to All
We focus on your competence, not your other prerequisites. We are open to adapting the role or workplace according to your needs.