Care Manager at Jokkmokk Municipality

Jokkmokk is a municipality with its sights set on the future! We are a place where community and responsibility are at the center, where your skills and ideas can help shape the path forward. If you value a high quality of life with close access to both nature and community, Jokkmokk offers a rich cultural life and affordable leisure opportunities to enjoy. Welcome to a municipality that combines industriousness and helpfulness – here you can be part of creating something new.

At Jokkmokk Municipality, we offer a meaningful and rewarding workplace where we combine high-quality care and support with warmth and proximity to nature. As a Care Manager, you will be an important part of our team and contribute to ensuring that our residents receive the care and security they deserve. We value a person-centered approach, where every individual is seen and respected based on their own needs and conditions.

We in the elderly care sector are in the midst of an exciting change process and are now looking for four Care Managers who want to help shape the future of care together with us. Two positions are located at Kaitumgården, the municipality's largest care home, centrally located in Jokkmokk. The other two positions are located at Bjärkagården in Vuollerim.

4 Positions

Job Responsibilities

As a Care Manager in Jokkmokk, you will play a central role in supporting and leading your colleagues in their daily work, while ensuring that we meet our goals for quality and care. The positions do not include personnel responsibility, work environment issues, or economy/budget responsibility.

The work consists mainly of standard tasks within care and support. It involves providing social support and guidance, being the "spider in the web," and managing multiple threads simultaneously. The Care Manager's main task is to ensure that daily care is carried out according to established guidelines and that colleagues on the ward receive support and guidance in their work.

The Care Manager is also responsible for contributing to the development and follow-up of work to ensure quality care for our residents. An important part of the role is also being confident in the ability to teach colleagues in a pedagogical manner.

You must be able to work independently and in collaboration with others in the work team. We use various digital tools, so you need to have knowledge/experience in how to use digital technology and be familiar with using a computer in daily work for documentation.

Since this role is new, there will be a clear job description for the position. Your direct manager is the unit manager at the care home.

Qualifications

Nursing assistant education or other education/experience that the employer deems equivalent. We are looking for you who are positive, loyal, engaged, solution-oriented, and responsible with good empathy. Good knowledge of the Swedish language is required, both spoken and written, as communication and documentation are important parts of the job.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability, maturity, and teamwork skills.

Employment Terms

• Type of employment: Permanent position.
• Duration: Permanent, start date: By agreement. Probation period may apply.
• Salary: The salary range for this position is between 29,000 - 32,000 SEK/month full-time. We apply individual salary setting based on your experience and competence.

Jokkmokk Municipality strives for equal gender distribution as well as ethnic and cultural diversity in our operations. Knowledge of the Sami language and Sami culture is seen as an asset. Our value base aims to specify the values that should permeate all operations in Jokkmokk Municipality, where our keywords are respect, equal value, responsibility, courage, engagement, and competence.

To ensure the quality of our recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the "Apply here" link and not via email or paper format.

For this position, you are required to present a current extract from the criminal record register before employment. The extract is ordered by you as the applicant and submitted unopened upon request.

Recruitment is ongoing, and the positions may be filled before the last application date.

We look forward to receiving your application!