Nursing Assistant at Brinkehem

In Österlen, we create conditions for high quality of life, where Tomelilla Municipality is a place of inspiration and development. The municipality has approximately 800 employees, and we offer you great development opportunities, participation through trust, and the possibility of work-life balance. We are currently on a development journey focused on streamlining and improving our service. Our ambition is to be leading in leveraging the opportunities that digitalization provides. In short - we want to make things easy for everyone who lives in, works in, or visits Tomelilla Municipality. Do you want to be part of a pleasant team that adds a special touch to our residents' daily lives? We now need to strengthen our team with a positive, flexible, and committed nursing assistant at the special care facility Brinkehem in Brösarp. In Tomelilla Municipality, we work with full-time employment as the norm, which means that all new positions are full-time. We create the conditions to enable full-time work, which leads to many colleagues and greater opportunities for skills development. Placement will primarily be at Brinkehem, but resource shifts at other units within elderly care in Tomelilla Municipality may occur. Brinkehem is a special care facility located in Brösarp, consisting of three departments with a total of 22 apartments. The Ljungen department is the largest, with a general orientation and ten apartments total, including two apartments adapted for couples. The Heden department consists of seven single-room apartments, and Ängslyckan has five apartments intended for people with cognitive disorders. WORK TASKS When working as a nursing assistant with us, you are part of people's daily lives and work to support residents in living as independently as possible. Your work is characterized by great variety, including providing practical support with personal care. You may be delegated by a nurse to have the opportunity to administer medication. The work also involves adding a special touch to residents' lives. Your work includes providing practical support in personal care and hygiene, housework, or social support, such as: • Showering, personal hygiene, and shaving • Toilet visits • Getting up and going to bed, dressing and undressing • Cleaning, laundry, and shopping • Accompanying to, for example, medical centers or outdoor activities We offer you: • An independent, responsible, and eventful job • An opportunity to gain good knowledge and experience in various operations • A chance to have many new colleagues with good competence and experience • As an employee in care and social services in Tomelilla Municipality, you are offered free work shoes • Wellness benefits QUALIFICATIONS To thrive in the role with us, it is important that you have a genuine interest in people needing care and support. You have the ability to see the individual's needs for both care and support, aimed at independence. It is also important that you as a person are flexible and have good interpersonal skills. The work requires that you can take initiative and have good collaboration abilities. The work requires that you as an employee are engaged and proactive in continuous improvement work for increased quality at both individual and operational levels. To be considered for the position, you must have a nursing assistant education. You need to master the Swedish language in a way that allows you to communicate with residents, relatives, and colleagues verbally and in writing, as well as document. We consider previous experience in care and social services to be meritorious. To work in care and social services, we request an extract from the police criminal record register. OTHER Tomelilla Municipality has smoke-free working hours. Employees are sought under the condition that the position is not required to be filled by already employed staff or persons with priority rights. To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, the application should be submitted digitally via Visma Recruit and not via email or paper format. If you have protected personal information, you should not apply via Visma Recruit but contact HR recruitment via the switchboard at 0417-18 000. Prior to the recruitment process, Tomelilla Municipality has taken a position on desired recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly decline contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.