Centre nurse for a temporary position at Skovgården Elderly Center

If you see value in diverse nursing tasks, interprofessional collaboration and a good exchange between working with residents in both somatic placements and temporary stays, then read on!

We have a vacant 6-month temporary position in mixed day and evening shifts with the possibility of extension as of 1 December 2026 or preferably earlier. The weekly working time will be 37 hours, but fewer hours can also be agreed. Day shifts are on weekdays from 7:00 – 15:30.

We have nursing coverage every day of the year, which is why you for the time being will have to join weekend rotations, which on average will fall every 4th week in the period 7:00 – 13:00 , and you will be required to work on some of the year's holidays depending on the distribution in the nursing group. Evening shifts will be on weekdays and here we are open to dialogue about what makes sense from your private perspective, but of course also based on the needs here at Skovgården.

About us

Elderly Center Skovgården is a lovely home for the 48 residents we have room for. These are distributed as follows:

• 30 Somatic places
• 8 Shielded places:
• 2 Mobile places (relief from home)
• 8 Temporary stays:

Skovgården is an exciting workplace with +60 employees, broadly represented professionally: social- and health care assistants, social- and health care apprentices, social and health care assistants, pedagogues, unskilled workers, kitchen assistant, house assistants, duty planner, assistant department head and department head.

All employees are more or less employed at Skovgården, but still all employees are attached to one primary team out of our 5 teams. This should help create a sense of continuity for both residents and staff.

At Skovgården we strive to contribute to the individual resident living a dignified and meaningful life, which partly depends on self-determination and personal wishes. In line with this, we place a high value on social aspects and activities. This happens both within the individual teams, but also across the house. This takes place in collaboration with the staff, but is largely driven by the volunteers, whom we are fortunate to have affiliated with Skovgården.

We offer a position where you

• will handle nursing tasks, both general and complex.
• care for residents, and participate in close collaboration with relatives.
• conduct assessments of nursing-related issues, and support your colleagues in solving these tasks.
• contribute to ensuring quality and resident safety by working systematically with documentation in Cura.
• have close collaboration with authorities regarding visitation to placements at Skovgården, as well as follow-up on temporary placements.
• must have the coordinating function in relation to collaboration with the general practitioner, ambulance service, on-call doctor and/or hospital.
• be able to utilize your collaboration and communication skills, and contribute to creating a good learning environment and not least a good working environment together with a group of professionally skilled colleagues.
• be the facilitator in relation to triage, resident conferences and SSH and SSA meetings.

About you

• you are a trained nurse.
• you thrive in a dynamic daily life, which can quickly look different from what's planned.
• you are able to keep many balls in the air at once.
• you may very well have broad experience that enables you to handle complex nursing challenges, which can be necessary since several of our residents either return from a hospitalization, or when we often receive residents who come directly from the hospital to the temporary placements.
• you thrive in palliative care, and being close to both resident and relatives at the end of life.
• you master good documentation.
• you are prepared to participate in care when it is necessary for us to succeed with the core task – e.g. during sickness absence and similar.

It matters to us to give new employees a good welcome, therefore we also create an intro program that ensures that together with you we go through what is relevant to get started well as a nurse at Skovgården.

You will be assigned a mentor in the nursing group, which currently consists of 5 other nurses, and from the management side there will also be close follow-up during your onboarding.

As a nurse at Skovgården you have the opportunity to influence the prioritization of tasks, as well as to use your competencies.

We hope you would like to be our upcoming colleague.

Some of what your potential future colleagues have to say about being Center Nurse at Skovgården is:

“…it is really exciting to work as a center nurse, as I experience significant personal and professional development. I gain a great deal of knowledge in many different parts of nursing. I particularly enjoy the relational work, where through extensive knowledge of the individual resident, one can help create a good everyday life”

”I have been at the Elderly Centers for 8 years, and I always go to work happily. It is valuable to be part of making daily life safe and dignified for our residents - with the circumstances life entails, as well as being part of life’s end. I thrive in our collegiality, and that there is always room for laughter, but also security to talk about the professional challenges we face daily”

”I experience the staff at Skovgården as good and capable, and engaged in their work”

Practical information

Salary and employment terms are set in accordance with the applicable collective agreement.

If you are interested in learning more about the job, you are welcome to contact department head Kathe Riis Johansen at tel.: 41 22 52 71 or email: [email protected] or assistant department head Mette Brøner Thygesen at tel. 21488970 or email: [email protected]

Application deadline Monday Oct 26. If you are shortlisted for an interview, you will receive notice on Tuesday Oct 27

Interviews are expected on Thursday Oct 29

Prior to final hire, a child/juvenile certificate and criminal record check will be obtained.

Submit application online

You submit your application, CV and relevant attachments via our recruitment system. You will be guided through the process by clicking the button "Send application".

We look forward to receiving your application.