Nurse with Specialist Competence in Dementia Care – Höör Municipality

Höör is located in the heart of Scania, with good train connections, beautiful nature, a population of 17,000, and steady population growth. With approximately 1,400 employees, Höör Municipality is the largest employer. Many of our staff commute here.

As an employee in Höör Municipality, you have the opportunity to work in an organization that is constantly developing. We place great value on interpersonal treatment and help create good job satisfaction through open and constructive dialogue, respect, and tolerance towards colleagues and citizens. High service spirit, professionalism, and commitment characterize our organization.

Höör Municipality – where people meet and develop

Do you want to help shape the future of dementia care in Höör Municipality? We are now looking for an engaged and knowledgeable nurse with specialist training in dementia for our newly established dementia team – a team with high competence and a central role in the municipality's development work.

About the Dementia Team

The Dementia Team will serve as the municipality's specialist and support resource in the field of dementia, consisting of a dementia nurse and a care assistant with specialist competence in dementia. Additionally, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and care coordinators will collaborate closely with the Dementia Team. The team's mission is to ensure that people with dementia receive early support, coordinated interventions, and safe, evidence-based care. We work consultatively, supervisory, and person-centered – always with the individual's needs in focus.

The team leads the municipality's dementia work in line with the National Board of Health and Welfare's guidelines and the national dementia strategy. We collaborate with home care services, special housing facilities, needs assessment officers, licensed personnel, and MAS/MAR.

1 position(s).

Job Responsibilities

Your tasks

As a nurse in the Dementia Team, you will have a varied and developing role where you will work with:

Individual and Relative Support

• Conduct home visits and assessments
• Identify early signs of cognitive impairment
• Support and inform relatives throughout the disease process
• Collaborate in SIP (Individualized Service Plan)

Specialist Assessments

• Assess symptom patterns including BPSD (Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia)
• Conduct nursing assessments within the municipality's HSL responsibility
• Suggest individualized interventions

Supervision and Competence Development

• Supervise and educate staff in person-centered working methods
• Work with the BPSD register
• Participate in quality and improvement work

Coordination and Development

• Ensure that dementia care follows national guidelines
• Develop routines and working methods
• Participate in cross-professional collaboration

Working Methods

You will become an important part of a team that works:

• Person-centered, based on life stories and individual needs
• Consultative and supervisory, especially in complex cases
• Structured according to the BPSD model: mapping, analysis, planning, and follow-up
• Coordinated and cross-professionally together with the municipality's various operations
• Preventive and health-promoting, focusing on fall risk, nutrition, oral health, welfare technology, social participation, and security

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are:

• A licensed nurse with specialist competence in dementia care
• Good collaborative and pedagogical skills
• Experienced in municipal care and confident in working independently and consultatively
• A good communicator with the ability to build trust and collaborate across operational boundaries
• Committed to development work and accustomed to working in a structured manner

Merits include experience with BPSD work, supervision, and educational initiatives.

What We Aim to Achieve Together

The Dementia Team works towards clear goals:

• Increased quality and security in care
• Strengthened competence among all care staff
• Fewer behavioral symptoms through preventive working methods
• Earlier detection and faster interventions
• Strengthened support for relatives
• Better continuity and coordination in the municipality's dementia work

We Offer:

• Meaningful work where you make a difference every day
• A competent team with great commitment
• Opportunity to influence and develop the municipality's dementia work
• Further education and support in your professional development.

Do you want to help create security and quality for people with dementia in Höör Municipality? Then we look forward to your application.

We plan to conduct interviews during week 31 and would appreciate it if you could participate then.

Salary: Monthly salary.
Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement.
Working hours: Daytime. The position involves full-time work Monday-Friday.

The position will be filled subject to necessary political decisions being made and provided it does not need to be reserved for internal use.

We apply rolling selection, which means we may call for interviews before the application deadline.

In connection with the appointment of positions within certain parts of our operations, we may request extracts from the criminal record.

As an employee in Höör Municipality, you have a wellness allowance as an employment benefit; furthermore, we apply smoke-free working hours.

In connection with the recruitment process, we have taken a stance on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore expressly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.