Assistant Nursing Home Manager for The Nursing Home of the Future, Aalborg Municipality

Are you passionate about hands-on leadership, strong relationships, and professional development? Are you motivated by creating direction, well-being, and good conditions for both residents and staff? Then you may be the person we are looking for as the Assistant Care Home Manager at Fremtidens Plejehjem.

Fremtidens Plejehjem

Fremtidens Plejehjem opened in 2014 and is centrally located by the dock area in Nørresundby, beautifully positioned directly overlooking the Limfjord. The care home is bright, inviting and houses 75 two-bedroom apartments. All apartments are equipped with a range of welfare-technology solutions, which are a natural part of the care home's profile.

Fremtidens Plejehjem is a vibrant house with a wide range of activities and a strong sense of community. An active activity council, many volunteers and an engaged user and relatives council, together with the staff, help create a house with life, engagement and community.

At Fremtidens Plejehjem, residents are a central part of daily life. There is a focus on daily dialogue and on involving residents in everyday life and in the development of the house. Here there is great diversity and room to breathe for both residents and staff. There is a strong belief that people develop when there is space for engagement, ideas, and new possibilities.

A Workplace in Development

We are in the midst of an exciting development with the implementation of both holistic care and the new elder care act.

As part of this development, we have strengthened our interdisciplinary collaboration by employing a physiotherapist and a nurse at the care home. This means that we can, to an even greater extent, create coherent solutions around the residents and strengthen the quality of the overall task performance.

We have a dedicated workforce comprising social and health care assistants, social and health aides, nurses, a physiotherapist, flex workers and students. In addition, we collaborate closely with, among others, our care home doctor, Borgers Faste Teams (which provide nursing between 15:00 and 07:00, on weekends and holidays), senior psychiatry, geriatric dental care and many other professionals.

About the Position

As the Assistant Care Home Manager you will be part of a close and trusting management collaboration with the care home manager and two other assistant managers in addition to you.

You will be a central sparring partner in daily operations and play an important role in ensuring that both residents and staff experience a daily life characterized by quality, well-being, and cohesion.

You will join the management of a staff group of about 70 engaged employees.

We are seeking an assistant leader who can combine structure and overview with presence, clarity, and recognition. You can lead from the front, create direction, and bring people together around common goals while also paying attention to the individual and actively contributing to a strong and committed work community.

Fremtidens Plejehjem is in a development phase where we targetedly work to strengthen professionalism, create a shared culture, and further develop strong work communities. An attractive and sustainable work environment for the entire staff group is an important part of this effort. The development occurs in close collaboration between the management team, the staff, and the representatives of the trade unions and the work environment.

As the Assistant Manager, you will have a central role in the continued development. You will help set a clear direction, create engagement, and ensure follow-through so that our ambitions materialize into action and become a natural part of daily life at Fremtidens Plejehjem.

At Fremtidens Plejehjem we work with a basis in René Jensen’s “Reach out to me for collaboration - thank you!” . We believe that strong work communities are the foundation for high professionalism, well-being, and quality for our residents. Therefore we expect you as a leader to value building strong relationships, support psychological safety, and contribute to a culture marked by trust, curiosity, shared responsibility, and constructive dialogue.

We believe we succeed best when we succeed together - and that leadership is about creating the best framework for staff, residents, and partners to succeed together.

Your core tasks

• Clinical responsibility and professional leadership with responsibility to support quality and coherence in resident pathways.
• Educational responsibility and collaboration with educational institutions.
• Daily professional sparring, coordination and leadership.
• Administrative tasks including, among others, Cura and Silkeborg Data.
• Collaboration with relatives, volunteers and interdisciplinary partners.
• Participation in the implementation of Holistic Care and the Elder Care Act.
• Contribution to the development of an attractive and sustainable work environment and job satisfaction among staff.

We are looking for an assistant leader who

Professionally

• Has a health professional education.
• Has experience with leadership or a clear leadership talent and motivation to develop as a leader.
• Can translate strategies and political decisions into clear daily direction.
• Preferably has knowledge of relevant IT systems (the following systems are an advantage: EG Optima (shift planning), Opus (invoice processing), Cura (care system) and EduAdm (student administration system).

Personally

We are seeking an assistant leader who

• Is clear, authentic, and appreciative in communication.
• Is passionate about leadership and motivated to achieve results through and with others.
• Has a genuine commitment to the elderly care sector and a strong desire to create the best conditions for residents’ well-being, quality of life, and self-determination.
• Thrives in the role of a present leader and is able to build trusting relationships with residents, relatives, and staff.
• Is structured, systematic, and has strong organizational abilities.
• Has a sense of planning and operations and enjoys tasks where overview, logic, and “making the pieces fit” are essential, for example in shift planning and resource coordination.
• Can work analytically and think in connections, processes, and solutions, while always keeping the person at the center.
• Can prioritize and maintain an overview in a daily life with many diverse tasks.
• Has the courage to lead from the front, take responsibility, and make decisions, even when the task is complex.
• Is interested in both own and others’ development and sees professionalism as a natural part of daily life.
• Contributes actively to a leadership collaboration characterized by openness, reflection, and mutual sparring.

With us you will get

• A central leadership role in a care home in development, where you will have the opportunity to influence both operations, culture, and professional development.
• A close and trustful leadership collaboration with an approachable care home manager and assistant care home managers, where sparring, shared reflection and development are a natural part of daily life.
• Opportunity for leadership education, competency development and professional sparring so you can develop both personally and professionally.
• A mentoring program and a strong network with other assistant leaders in Aalborg Municipality.
• An engaged and stable staff group with high professionalism, great responsibility and a strong focus on residents’ well-being.
• An workplace where interdisciplinary collaboration is an integrated part of daily life through close cooperation between social and health care assistants, other professionals, a nurse, a physiotherapist, and external partners.
• An workplace that actively works with strong work communities and psychological safety based on René Jensen’s ideas about collaboration, relationships, and shared responsibility.
• Opportunity to be an active participant in implementing holistic care and the continued development of the care home in line with the Elderly Care Act.
• An workplace with high ceilings, where integrity, humor, community, and job satisfaction are highly valued.
• A care home where residents’ quality of life, self-determination and dignity are the focus of our work.
• A daily life where no two days are the same, and where you will have the opportunity to make a visible difference for residents, relatives, and staff.

About the Employment

If you want to hear more about the position, you are very welcome to contact the care home manager Mette Sommer Andersen at phone 99 82 53 51 / 24 81 40 12.

We warmly invite interested candidates for an informal tour. Here you will have the opportunity to experience Fremtidens Plejehjem, meet some of the staff, and get an insight into daily life, the culture, and the community at the care home.

We believe that the best basis for a good match is for you to be able to sense the atmosphere in the house and ask any questions you may have.

Job description for Assistant Care Home Managers in Aalborg Municipality can be requested by contacting Chief Secretary Camilla Holmgreen Madsen at phone 25 20 34 86.

• An employment interview will be held on 28.10.26
• You will start as an assistant leader at Fremtidens Plejehjem on 01.12.26
• Application deadline is 21.10.26

Salary and Employment Conditions

According to the applicable collective agreement between KL and the negotiating organization.

Prior to final employment, a criminal record must be presented and references obtained.

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