Dementia care professional

Are you passionate about the dementia field, professional development, and creating security and quality of life for people with dementia?

We are looking for an engaged dementia professional who wants to make a difference for people with dementia, their relatives, and the colleagues who provide care and support every day.

As a dementia professional, you will be an important professional resource in our specialized housing. You must be close to practice and the citizens, as well as help develop, retain, and convey the high dementia professional quality.

We are therefore looking for someone who is professionally curious, good at relationships, and who wants to take the lead while still able to bring others along.

About the position

As a dementia professional you have a special function, but you are also part of everyday life in the specialized housing. We believe that the best professional development happens close to the citizens and in collaboration with the staff who know them.

You actively participate in care, especially when a citizen’s behavior or well-being changes, and there is a need for professional observation, reflection, and new approaches.

You will also become a resource person, a sparring partner, and a role model for your colleagues.

Your main tasks

You will, among other things

• actively contribute to care for people with dementia
• take initiative when a citizen’s behavior changes from the habitual
• work preventively with well-being and with understanding and preventing behavior that can be
• difficult to understand
• support colleagues’ professional reflection on their own practice and approach
• provide practice-oriented sparring and guidance
• guide colleagues in relationship building and person-centered care
• teach and disseminate knowledge about, among other things, dementia diseases, symptoms, person-centered
• care, power usage, and social-pedagogical methods
• keep focus on and evaluate the social-pedagogical practice
• take initiatives for professional and ethical discussions about dementia care, dignity, and self-determination
• contribute to the work of reducing the use of antipsychotic medications
• be co-responsible for follow-up on well-being analyses, social-pedagogical action guidelines
• and power applications
• participate in the work around a good relocation
• contribute to a good and trusting collaboration with relatives, even when conversations are difficult
• participate in relevant resident conferences, house meetings, and other professional meetings
• participate in networks, theme days, development projects, and collaboration meetings in the dementia area
• cooperate and share knowledge across specialized housing.

You must also help translate the municipality’s dementia strategy and initiatives into concrete daily practice.

We imagine that you

Have solid practical experience with care for people with dementia and have a strong interest in the specialized area.

It is important that you work from a respectful, person-centered, and dignified approach, where each person's life story, wishes, resources, and needs are the starting point for the effort.

Professionally, you should have or be expected to have knowledge of, among other things

• dementia diseases, symptoms, and development
• the brain’s cognitive functions
• person-centered care and the dignity model
• ABC Dementia
• social-pedagogical methods and tools
• power usage
• rules on coercion in somatic treatment of permanently incapacitated patients
• relatives cooperation and the difficult conversation
• Marte Meo
• reflection tools in the dementia field.

Diploma education in dementia and completed ABC Dementia will be a significant professional qualification,

if you do not have the education, you must be willing to undertake it.

As a person, we value

• treating citizens, relatives, and colleagues with respect and curiosity
• being able to create followers rather than simply offering solutions
• being professionally curious and asking good questions
• being able to create understanding for complex problems through professional analysis, dialogue, and testing
• having a view for both the citizen’s and colleagues’ perspectives
• being able to convey professional knowledge in a tangible and practice-oriented way
• taking responsibility and initiative
• being good at collaborating across professional groups and areas
• wanting to both learn from you and actively seek new knowledge and sparring
• being a positive role model for the dementia professional effort.

We offer

In return, you get a position with the opportunity to have real influence on dementia professional practice.

You will become part of an environment where we want to be curious together and develop our professionalism close to the citizen.

You will have the opportunity to

• work targeted on a professional area you are passionate about
• help set the direction for the dementia professional effort
• close professional sparring with colleagues and other dementia professionals
• participate in relevant networks, theme days, and development programs
• actively bring your specialized knowledge into play
• contribute to development projects across specialized housing
• ongoing professional development and the opportunity to seek new knowledge
• You will be coordinated in weekends and participate where it makes sense for staff and citizens.

The most important thing for us

We are looking for not only a staff member with the right professional knowledge.

We are looking for a colleague who is passionate about people with dementia and wants to bring their professional expertise to life in everyday life.

A colleague who, together with the rest of the house, can be curious about the question

"What is the citizen trying to tell us, and what can we do differently to create more security, well-being, and quality of life?"

It is precisely in the shared reflection and in the practice-oriented learning that we believe we can make the biggest difference.

Practical information

Workplace: Landsbyen Møllevang, Randers municipality

Primarily day shifts and every 3rd weekend and 1 evening shift per week until 20:00

If you would like to hear more about the position, you are very welcome to contact center manager Birgitte Gert at phone 29 37 20 90.

We look forward to hearing from you.