Care Assistant for Träkvistaterrassen Specialized Elderly Care

We have made our decision! We aim to be a leading municipality – and we have everything it takes to succeed. Short decision-making paths, collaboration across operational boundaries, and the desire to dare more. Our high ambitions give you, with your own drive, the opportunity to grow and create positive change for our citizens. As an employee of Ekerö Municipality, you will have a valuable role in our unique island world – and we look forward to your application.

Träkvistaterrassen Specialized Elderly Care is our newly built and modern facility located in central Träkvista, Ekerö. Träkvistaterrassen is a modern, newly constructed elderly care home where residents are offered care, support, and services characterized by professional and respectful treatment. Digital solutions are used as a natural support for both staff and residents, creating security and simplifying daily life. The facility is centrally located in Ekerö, in a safe and accessible area. The home has space for 70 residents, distributed across seven units.

Job Description

We believe in you and your abilities – therefore, we give you significant room to maneuver in your role. The work in care is independent, enjoyable, and developmental. Many who work with us appreciate the trust and responsibility they receive in our municipality, as it contributes to much learning and development in everyday life. To succeed, you must be confident in yourself and in your professional role. Together with you, we want to drive the work forward.

We are looking for an engaged and empathetic care assistant. Do you want to make a difference in the lives of our residents? Then this job is for you!

Working with us means many opportunities but also great responsibility. You put the residents first, and every shift you work to create security, participation, and joy. As a care assistant, you work with care and nursing based on the individual's needs and wishes. Ekerö Municipality's values are the foundation of the work.

Together with your colleagues, you build good relationships with the residents and their relatives. You are to provide good nursing, care, and high-quality service. Social documentation and following up on individual implementation plans are seen as an important part of the work, as is continuously updating the documentation. Collaborating with all professional categories is seen as a matter of course.

Your duties include, among other things:

• providing nursing and support to residents
• performing medical tasks according to delegation
• documenting and following up on residents' health status
• participating in activities and creating a meaningful daily life
• collaborating with colleagues and relatives
• participating in and working with operational development within our teams.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• education as a care assistant (undersköterska)
• previous experience working in elderly care
• good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.

You also need the ability and experience to work both independently and in a team.

It is an advantage if you have specialized education in cognitive diseases or care for the multi-sick elderly.

Does this sound interesting? Welcome to a workplace with a positive work environment with opportunities for development through both competence development and training.

Start Date: According to agreement

Scope: Full-time

Employment Type: Permanent

To work for Ekerö Municipality within elderly care, you must present an extract from the police record of criminal convictions along with valid photo ID before employment. You request the extract on the police website. The extract must not be older than six months from the date of issue.

About Ekerö Municipality

We are a collection of various operations that together create a unique municipality – where we all help each other across unit and operational boundaries. We live our values, which mean great engagement, good communication with open dialogue, and a professional approach. As a smaller municipality in the Stockholm region, we can offer both closeness to each other and an ambitious development journey. To become a leading municipality, we need to fill up with new perspectives, and we hope you want to be part of contributing yours.

Ekerö Municipality wants to be an attractive employer and strives for a clear focus on sustainability. Provided that the operation's ability to meet its goals remains, the municipality has a positive attitude towards remote work when possible.

We offer, for example, wellness benefits, salary exchange for pension, exchange of holiday day allowances for free days, and smoke-free working hours. To ensure the quality of our recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application digitally, not via email or post.

We have already taken a stand regarding recruitment channels and marketing and do not wish to have contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.