Vacant job

We are looking for dedicated assistant nurses who want to help create a secure and dignified everyday life for our elderly residents on our department specializing in geriatrics/psychiatry and dementia. At Edshultsgården, you will work in a thoughtful team where community, respect, and professionalism are at the center – every day counts, for both residents and colleagues.

Highlights of the job:

• Meaningful work where you make a real difference in people's lives
• A secure employer focused on balance, development, and community
• Work in an experienced team characterized by low-affective interaction and respect for the individual

Your responsibilities

As an assistant nurse at Edshultsgården, you provide personal care and social support based on the residents' needs. Your work is characterized by responsibility, interaction, and a strive to provide the best possible care. As an assistant nurse with us, you uphold our residents' self-determination, integrity, and participation, so that the resident can feel well-being. We work together to give the elderly a meaningful and stimulating everyday life.

You can expect varied tasks; helping with meals, dressing and undressing, moving, personal hygiene, escorting, walks, creating security, and breaking isolation. Service tasks include laundry, making beds, shopping, and cleaning. Documenting the care and support you provide is an important part of the daily work. The role also includes performing certain health and medical care tasks upon delegation.

Your profile

• We are looking for you who are a trained assistant nurse with a focus on geriatrics/dementia
• Previous experience from work in care is a requirement
• You are used to working with digital work tools such as mobile phone, computer, or tablet and possess good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, to document the care you provide and communicate with our residents
• Since some tasks require good physical fitness, it is important that this requirement is also met
• Requirement of a B-driver's license
• We assume that you have personal maturity and are both independent and service-oriented. You take responsibility, are flexible, and can handle stressful situations. You are proactive and responsive to residents' needs and show respect for other people. You find it easy to cooperate with residents, relatives, colleagues, and other staff

It is meritorious if you are a specialist assistant nurse with a focus on psychiatry or dementia.

About the workplace

Edshultsgården's special housing welcomes you with its prestigious exterior and laughter from many children who eat their lunch in the same premises. Friendliness and a homely atmosphere characterize both Edshultsgården's values and the departments. Edshultsgården is divided into 3 floors and 9 departments, all with 24-hour staffing and person-centered care. Each department has 8-9 residents, but the long corridors give the feeling of a regular apartment building. In addition, we have the privilege of having 3 quality leaders, a meal coordinator, and an activity coordinator who have extra focus on quality in our care. Edshultsgården has a dementia focus on 8 of its departments and a somatic focus on one department.

We offer you

For us, it is important that all our employees find a balance between work and home, feel secure in their employment, and have an increased quality of life by working in the municipality. If we succeed with this, there are good conditions for also succeeding with our common task, which is:

We do what we should by taking joint responsibility for our democratic mission, using our resources wisely, and always keeping the focus on those we are here for.

We do it well and are proud of our work and the results we achieve, and we welcome engaged and courageous employees who want to develop and improve together with us.

We do it together by cooperating and learning from each other. Dialogue is important to us, and we find new solutions together with those we are here for, with trust, care, and respect.

We strive for a health-promoting work climate, job satisfaction, community, and personal development. Competence development is a matter of course, and we encourage our employees to further develop through courses, training, and networking.

On our website, we have gathered information about what it is like to work with us. For more information, please see https://leksand.se/jobba-hos-oss (https://leksand.se/jobba-hos-oss)

For you as an applicant, we have the possibility to offer relocation services, see further http://www.rekryteringslots.se (http://www.rekryteringslots.se)

Your application

To ensure quality in the recruitment process in Leksand Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to send your application digitally via the link. The application documents consist of a CV and a cover letter.

Identification for verifying your identity needs to be presented at a possible interview. This is standard in all our recruitment processes.

Note that some positions within Leksand Municipality are subject to background checks. If employment becomes relevant, you are obliged to present an extract from the criminal record.

Send in your application by June 21, 2026.

We will have ongoing recruitment.

Appointment is made after agreement. Full-time positions cover day/evening/weekend.

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