Make Your Summer Meaningful – Create Safety and Community in Home Care

Description:

Torsås Municipality - a municipality with closeness and quality of life in southern Kalmar County. The municipality, with approximately 7,000 residents, can be described as Sweden in miniature. Here you'll find the sea, coast, beaches, flatlands, lakes, and forests. The business sector is dominated by manufacturing industry but also has great potential in tourism and other areas. Here we can offer high quality of life with closeness and great safety for residents and visitors. Torsås Municipality has five departments and two wholly-owned companies. In Torsås Municipality, we dare to find new solutions, think big thoughts, and come up with exciting ideas. To succeed, we work closely with each other. We collaborate toward a common goal: to give everyone who lives here the best conditions for a good life. Our closeness is evident in how we make use of each other's strengths. The fact that departments and operations work closely together also means that there is never far between employees and managers, which in turn leads to short decision-making paths and close collaboration. Torsås Municipality's value foundation is built on the words Participation, Development, Clarity, and Safety. An approach that every employee and elected representative demonstrates in daily work and in meetings with citizens and customers. 25 position(s). WORK TASKS As a summer substitute in home care, you will be an important part of everyday life for elderly people in Torsås Municipality. You work closely with those you support and help them live a safe and independent life with influence over their daily lives. Your work tasks vary and may include personal care, such as dressing, hygiene, and meals, practical help with cleaning, laundry and grocery shopping, as well as social activities and community. We work to reduce travel time and the municipality's fossil emissions. When visiting people who live close to the personnel office, within about 5 km, you cycle or walk with a regular bicycle or e-bike. Daily exercise is something we see as a health factor. As a summer substitute, you have a meaningful role where you adapt services based on the individual's needs in each specific meeting. Since activities at special residential facilities operate around the clock, work includes scheduled shifts on weekdays, weekends, and evenings and nights. We would like to see that you as an applicant can work nights during the summer. After the summer, there are good opportunities to continue as a hourly substitute. Please tell us in your application if you have a preferred focus area or a specific home care area. QUALIFICATIONS We do not require any previous experience, but to thrive in the role you need to have a genuine interest in people and the desire to make a difference. You will receive thorough introduction before you start. For us, your attitude and commitment are most important. You have a genuine interest in people and perform your work in a respectful and professional manner. You collaborate well with colleagues and create good relationships in meetings with the people you provide support to. It is a merit if you have an ongoing or completed education within the care and welfare program, nursing program, or other relevant care education. Experience in care work, education, or behavioral science is also a merit. If you have previously worked for us and have good references, we see that as positive. For all summer substitutes you need to: • be at least 18 years old • have good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written B driver's license is required for certain positions. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. In connection with the interview, you need to be able to verify your identity with a valid ID document. Please apply as soon as possible as we are conducting selection and interviews continuously. Employment form: Summer job/Holiday work. Duration: 3-6 months, start: Start by agreement, end: 2026-08-31. Working hours: Day, evening, and night, as well as weekend duty. We strive for an equal gender distribution and see diversity as a strength and therefore welcome applicants with different backgrounds. An extract from the Police's criminal record register for work in the home with elderly people and people with disabilities must be presented when offered employment. The extract is ordered by the applicant via the Police's e-service. In connection with the interview, you need to verify your citizenship. You can do this with a passport or certificate of citizenship together with an ID document. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must be able to show that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the work permit requirement. In preparation for the recruitment process, we have taken a position on recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly decline contact from media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar. We use e-recruitment to streamline and quality assure the recruitment process. All your information is saved on your CV account and you can easily log in and update your information whenever you want. Therefore, fill in your information as carefully as possible to give a fair picture of yourself. The information is processed and stored in accordance with the data protection regulation (GDPR). Warmly welcome with your application!

Overview

Type

job

Status

active

Visibility

public

City

Torsås

Address

Box 503

GPS

56.4140588, 15.9995893copyopen in

Email

[email protected]

Phone

010 44 28 390

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7

Published

10. 6. 2026

Edited

21. 6. 2026

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