Description of the workplace:

Biri Care Center was built in 2021 and is a beautiful building with modern technology. Biri Care Center contains a nursing home, book collective, adapted services and ordinary home services, day center and café. With its rural location, the center's beautiful café and surrounding area is ideal for residents, staff and visitors. The care center is centrally located between Gjøvik, Lillehammer and Hamar.

The care center houses a nursing home with 16 long-term places, two residential collectives with 16 places each for people with dementia, 10 care apartments and a department for outpatient services for users living at home with postal addresses in Biri and Biristrand.

The building has modern technology, which will enable staff to customize services around the individual patient. We use welfare technology for current users at the care center and users associated with the home service. We are looking for nurses who are interested in how welfare technology can be useful and help to work smarter. We want an environment with collaboration, where we together find solutions for the benefit of our service users.

The ambulatory service consists of a large group of nurses, health professionals, assistants and has a good working environment. The department provides health care and assistance to people living at home according to the Act on Health and Care Services in the municipality, based on individual decisions to users of all ages.

Patient safety is a focus area. Strengthen expertise and facilitate that users can live at home as long as possible.

Turnus day/evening with work every 3 weekends.

Work tasks:

• Provide health care in the home according to users' decisions and the service area's governing documents.

• Protect the user's rights in collaboration with the user, relatives and others, through primary contact and interdisciplinary collaboration.

• Documentation in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and guidelines.

• Nursing technical tasks

• Supervision/training of employees, students and trainees.

• Promote quality assurance of the service.

• Promote professional development and ethical reflection.

• Responsible for seeking advice/assistance and guidance when needed.

• Responsible for self-development and innovation within the profession and work in general.

• Promote an inclusive and good working environment.

• Responsible for special tasks in the department as agreed.

Qualifications:

• Authorization as a nurse.

• Relevant practice, experience from home care will be emphasized.

• You have good attitudes towards the users of the service and see the value in innovation and welfare technology.

• Good communication skills, both verbal and written will be emphasized in relation to the user group.

• Commitment and care of people in need of conversations, care and care, palliation and end-of-life care.

• Personal suitability and relevant work experience will be emphasized.

• You have the ability to work independently and collaborate with others.

• You are flexible, clear and solution-oriented.

• You take initiative and drive professional development.

• Requirement for approved police certificate.

• Driver's license class B is required.

We can offer:

• A positive working environment with professionally skilled and committed employees.

• Various work tasks with professional challenges.

• Interdisciplinary collaboration within the municipality and externally.

• Opportunities to participate in courses, internally and externally via Regional Competence Collaboration.

• The position involves rotation with work every 3rd weekend.

• Terms of employment in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and collective agreements.

• Public pension scheme.

• Good parking conditions.

• New company cars.

• Biri has a brand new school and kindergarten and an active sports team with many activities.

Exempt public access must be justified:

Gjøvik municipality practices more openness, cf. section 11 of the Freedom of Information Act. This means that all applicants are listed on the public applicant list. There must be special circumstances to be granted an exemption, cf. Section 25 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Application submission:

All applications must be submitted electronically via our application system.

Tests and diplomas do not need to be submitted, but should be brought to any interview.

We want a diverse work environment and encourage all qualified applicants to apply regardless of gender, ethnic background, religion, disability, age and sexual orientation.

Link to application form: Apply here