Work for a Living Kiruna – Assistant Nurse/Care Aide

For a living Kiruna. One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are Kiruna, we often say. We are the healthcare staff holding grandma's hand and the teacher helping little brother read his first words. We are the childcare worker who helps someone grow every day and the social worker who does what it takes to change lives. We are the personal assistant who gives freedom and the librarian who makes literature accessible. We are the home care staff driving to the villages in a snowstorm under the midnight sun to be there. We are hundreds of competencies, thousands of people, and generations of experience, together securing, caring, inspiring, teaching, saving lives, thinking new thoughts, moving cities, standing up for each other, and taking care of people. With pride and care. From the mountains to the city. Today and tomorrow for a living Kiruna. There is something beautiful about it. Do you also want to work for life, the human being, and the future in Kiruna Municipality? Do you want to create value and make a real difference for what is important?

The Social Services Department's mission is to meet people's need for security. The department should work to ensure that the municipality's residents receive social care in various forms, with a special responsibility to safeguard the needs and interests of vulnerable groups. We constantly work for good quality that benefits the users of our services.

3 positions available.

Job Description

The work as an assistant nurse/care aide involves assisting the user according to their individual needs regarding personal care, meal situations, mobility, activities, etc.

An important task is to support the healthy among the users. This means you provide them with support and encouragement to continue doing what they can manage themselves. We place great emphasis on contact personship and work with the individual's best interests at the center. Our goal is for users to experience dignity and well-being as far as possible.

You will work both in home care and at Blomstergården.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are trained as an assistant nurse or have training as a care aide. Meritorious if you have experience in care work and knowledge of dementia diseases.

We value high empathy and great commitment to the well-being of elderly people and their opportunity for a dignified life. Taking care of users' different needs and opportunities is obvious to you. It is important that you have a professional and respectful attitude and the ability to create security and calm even in stressful situations. You have a positive attitude and contribute to a positive work climate to promote good cooperation. The work requires medical care work after delegation by a nurse. The work also includes documentation in the Combine system. Great importance is placed on personal suitability.

Category B driving license is required.

We also have the possibility to help with housing; we will tell you more during an interview.

Interviews may take place on an ongoing basis.

Criminal Record Check

In accordance with the Act on Suitability Control, you must be able to present an extract from the police's criminal record register upon employment. Order one directly in connection with submitting your application, you do this via the link https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret (https://polisen.se/belastningsregistret?mtm_campaign=utdrag&mtm_kwd=post0623)

Employment Type

Employment Type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, Start Date: According to agreement.

To work with us, you must share Kiruna Municipality's common value base where respect, responsibility, and collaboration are the key words.

What We Offer

We offer a pleasant work environment and stimulating tasks, and as an employee, you get a good balance between work and leisure.

We have many different benefits where you as an employee can train for free at various fitness facilities up to 5000 SEK/year, we have cabins in the mountains that you can rent, we offer the possibility to exchange salary for free days.

We strive for equal gender distribution and see diversity as a strength; we welcome employees with different backgrounds and work to ensure our workplaces are accessible to everyone. Kiruna Municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an opportunity. It is meritorious if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sami, and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna Municipality is an administrative area for these languages.

Kiruna Municipality applies individual and differentiated salaries. If you proceed in the recruitment process, you will be presented with a relevant salary range for you at the interview.

We would like you to read information about our collective agreements, local agreements, and what we as an employer have to offer before we meet for a possible interview, you can find them here: https://kiruna.se/naringsliv--arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/kommunen-som-arbetsgivare.html (https://kiruna.se/naringsliv--arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/kommunen-som-arbetsgivare.html)

Kiruna Municipality has made its own choice for this recruitment and therefore declines contact with advertising salespeople or other sellers of recruitment services.