Vacant job

The position is located within the Health and Social Care Administration, which is one of eight administrations in Linköping Municipality. The Health and Social Care Administration is responsible for the municipality's elderly care, healthcare, official duties, commissioning of services, and provides care and support in its own operations. We work with quality awareness and professionalism to make every day as good as possible for the residents of Linköping who need us.

Do you want to improve the daily life, future, and quality of life for the residents of Linköping? With us, you can combine important assignments with a meaningful everyday life. Welcome to us!

Your responsibilities

As a nurse in a care home or short-term care facility, you play a central role in ensuring medical assessments, planning daily healthcare interventions, and monitoring patients' health status. The work is varied and includes, among other things, taking blood samples, dressing wounds, handling prescriptions, and delegating nursing tasks to care staff.

You work continuously with quality registers such as BPSD, Senior Alert, and the Palliative Care Register, doing so in close collaboration with fellow nurses and care staff. Documentation is an important part of the role, and you use it as support in both planning and following up on care.

Within short-term care, the work also involves welcoming new patients, conducting admissions and discharges, and handling reports from hospitals and social workers. You participate in the weekly rounds with doctors from the Primary Care Clinic at the University Hospital (US).

You participate in multiprofessional meetings and are part of the local management group. Here, you contribute to developing working methods, following up on deviations, and contributing to quality assurance of the operations.

Your workplace

Linköping Municipality operates several different care homes throughout Linköping. Our operations focus on somatic or dementia care, and some facilities have both somatic and dementia wards. Here, you have the opportunity to develop within different areas!

We also have short-term care places at Garnisonens Care Home, Åleryd Care Home, and Kärna Care Village. Short-term care will be co-located at Åleryd Care Home in the spring of 2027, with the goal of creating a more cohesive operation, stronger collaboration, increased continuity, and the opportunity to develop specialist competence in short-term care.

You work together with at least one fellow nurse, and there may be more colleagues depending on the number of wards at the facility. You are part of the local management group and work in close collaboration with the operations manager, coordinator, care staff, as well as physiotherapists and occupational therapists.

Your working hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM. Over a rolling 6-week schedule, it may include one weekend and evening shifts on two weekday evenings.

Who you are

We are looking for you who are a licensed nurse. It is meritorious if you are trained as a district nurse or have other specialist training that the employer deems relevant. For this position, you need to have previous experience working as a nurse. It is meritorious if you have worked as a nurse in municipal healthcare.

Since the work involves documentation and contact with patients and relatives, it is a requirement that you have good knowledge of Swedish, both written and spoken. You need to have a category B driver's license and be able to cycle.

As a person, you work well with others, listen, communicate, and resolve conflicts in a constructive manner. Furthermore, you have the ability to lead and coordinate work by creating engagement and involvement. You also understand how individuals absorb knowledge and can therefore adapt how you convey information to achieve common goals.

You need to be able to plan, organize, and prioritize your work and have an easy time adapting to changed circumstances. You make correct assessments and have the ability to weigh together complex information and different types of considerations.

Other information

When you apply for a position in Linköping Municipality, you register your application by logging in via e-identification (such as BankID or FrejaID) instead of an email address. Do you lack e-identification? Please contact the responsible HR consultant or manager, and they will help you register your application.

Start date: By agreement

Employment type: Permanent employment

Employment level: 100%

Number of vacancies: 2

Ref. no: 17496

No cover letter is required with this application

Your commitment makes us better

Within Linköping Municipality, there are many opportunities, plenty of knowledge, and different areas of responsibility. We work together where your sense of responsibility is a valuable driving force. With your commitment, you contribute to making Linköping even better.