Social- and Health Care Assistant for primarily evening shifts at the short-term units at Skovvang Special Care Home

About the job

The evening shift includes work every other weekend. The start times are between 14:00 and 15:00, and the shifts are 7-8 hours long. With a weekly working time of 37 hours, 5-7 hours will be scheduled as day shifts.

Please note that the position falls within the 24-hour area and at present the service is expected to be mainly in the evening shift.

You will be part of a stable and professionally competent team that works with holistic care, and help create a good everyday life for the residents.

As an assistant at Skovvang, your primary task will be to create safe surroundings for our residents through a person-centered, empathetic and listening approach. Building trustful relationships is decisive for whether we succeed in creating a meaningful everyday life, where the individual resident feels recognised, respected and valued.

At Skovvang we base our care on person-centered care, which means that the individual resident's life story, preferences and special needs are at the center.

You will become part of an interdisciplinary staff group with the common trait that we love working with people with dementia. We base our care on person-centered care in everything we do, which means we always see the person before the disease, and plan the care and support according to the individual's needs.

Understanding the importance of relationship before task is an important part of the job as a social- and health care assistant at Skovvang, primarily in relation to our residents, but also to their relatives.

At Skovvang you have ample opportunities to develop yourself as an assistant. We have regular mono-disciplinary meetings, where for example wound care and IV treatment are taught by both internal and external instructors. In addition, we hold interdisciplinary meetings with the house's nurses, focusing on the many interventions we work on together, e.g. palliative pathways, the care model or person-centered care.

We have large professional ambitions for Skovvang and are very much looking forward to welcoming new, engaged employees who want to be part of a specialized care home with high professionalism and a strong focus on creating high well-being and safe surroundings for our residents and their relatives.

Your profile

We are looking for a social- and health care assistant who is passionate about creating safe surroundings and a good everyday life together with our residents. It is important for us that you want to work with people with dementia and are motivated to offer the best possible help to our residents.

In addition we place emphasis on you

• Are educated as a social- and health care assistant
• Contribute to a person-centered approach
• Are aware of your body language and facial expressions
• Will create homeliness, health, joy and security for our residents
• Are good at collaborating with relatives and colleagues
• Can create an overview and work structured
• Are professionally reflective and mindful of your own competence development
• Can work rehabilitatively by seeing and supporting each resident's resources
• Provide care of high quality
• Are mindful of the importance of documentation
• You have experience with citizen-safety nursing and delegation of nursing to social- and health care assistants and unskilled staff

Therefore you should choose us

As an employee at Skovvang you will work with an exciting specialty at the only specialized care home in Aarhus municipality. You will work with many skilled and dedicated people who are passionate about the dementia field, and every day do their best to ensure our residents have a good life.

It is precisely the curiosity about how we succeed in helping those of our residents who, for various reasons, are difficult to help that is an important driver and motivation for us at Skovvang. As an assistant you will therefore be very close to the residents and build relationships that are crucial to succeed together with the individual.

For us, well-being is not only for our residents – we believe that well-being among those who work at Skovvang is essential to creating well-being for our residents. We work purposefully to create a work environment where psychological safety, job satisfaction and a sense of community are at the center. Our goal is that you as an employee at Skovvang experience that your voice is heard, your efforts are appreciated, and your development is prioritized. That you look forward to going to work, feel safe and dare to be curious – and above all know that you are an important part of our shared mission.

About the department

In the Short-Term Placements we have room for 20 residents in respite or assessment pathways. We are located on the ground floor and have direct access to the garden, where we follow the changing seasons.

The Short-Term Placements work to make the transition from home or hospital as gentle as possible by focusing on creating homeliness and especially on meals. We work to create small environments or one-to-one with the staff to create calm and clarity for the individual. We also focus on how the residents take initiative and have motivation that can be used in daily life and in relation to ensuring the residents' daily life and well-being. The short-term department strives for the relationship to allow setting demands and expectations for the individual to achieve, e.g. clothing changes and bathing.

About working as an employee at Skovvang

Employee at Skovvang

About Skovvang

Skovvang is the only specialized care home for people with dementia in Aarhus Municipality.

Our residents all have a moderate to severe degree of dementia, and we who are employed at Skovvang are dementia nerds. That means we are passionate about helping people with dementia – through high professionalism, creativity, curiosity and openness, we work every day to create the best possible surroundings for our residents.

Accommodation is offered at Skovvang if someone, due to dementia, has particular challenges or needs that make it difficult to live in the municipality's other care homes.

Our house is newly built and designed to be dementia-friendly based on research and experience that it should be a home for people with a need for a special way of living. We have 125 housing units distributed across five departments, of which 93 are fixed specialized homes, and 32 are short-term homes for respite and housing need clarification. In addition, we have a day center, which is a specialized offer for home-dwelling residents with dementia or dementia-like symptoms.

Skovvang is built around a lovely communal garden with path systems that give our residents the opportunity to enjoy a walk in a safe and stimulating environment. There is direct access to the communal garden from all five departments, and each department has one or more terraces or balconies.

At Skovvang we always keep in mind ensuring the framework for a safe and good life with homeliness and well-being for our residents. We believe that good activity offers create life and joy for both residents and employees. Every other week the residents enjoy the visiting dog Bastian, while on other days we dance to music, play table tennis or gather around a good meal, an intimate live concert or a storytelling session.

Read more here: Welcome

Join a tour of Skovvang here: The House

Introduction of new colleagues at Skovvang

It is important to us that you as a new colleague are introduced to Skovvang and the workflows that all staff in the house are expected to know. We therefore offer a comprehensive introduction program, which is assembled and planned based on your professional background. The instructors are all employed at Skovvang and thus have in-depth knowledge of the house, as well as what characterizes Skovvang as a specialized care home for people with dementia.

The introduction program mainly consists of in-person trainings held locally at Skovvang, as well as various e-learning courses. We have regular monthly introductory trainings in person-centered care for people with dementia, gentle safeguarding, medication management, nutrition and dysphagia, documentation, our alarm and tracking system, the care pathway model, the work environment, fire safety and our conflict management code and strengthening citizen contact.

The introduction is general and cannot stand alone. Our aim is that after participating in the intro program, you feel professionally equipped to meet your new colleagues with curious questions during the practical department introduction. In addition to our fixed introduction program, our staff psychologist offers individual and group supervision to support professional reflection and practice-based learning.

Salary and employment terms

The position is desired to be filled on January 1, 2027 or by agreement

Salary and employment terms according to the applicable collective agreement and after concrete negotiation with the negotiating union.

Weekly hours: 37 hours

If you want to know more

Further information about the position can be obtained by contacting Vice-Manager Rikke Bjorholm at tel. 20 90 64 93 or email [email protected]

Application

Click on “Apply” to fill out and send your application. All fields with * must be filled out. Only when you have received an email receipt have we received your application .

The application deadline is 16 November 2026.

We expect to conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and on 24 November 2026.

In the Department of Health and Care, we have a general policy that references and possibly a criminal record check are requested during recruitment. You should therefore expect to be asked about this if we offer you the position.

We would like to point out that in connection with the recruitment process there will be an entry in our reference register. The reference register includes former employees of the Department of Health and Care who have been dismissed due to significant breach of employment.

About Health and Care and Aarhus Municipality

Health and Care (MSO) in Aarhus Municipality works with care for the elderly and health for all citizens.

Aarhus Municipality regards diversity as a resource and therefore invites everyone - regardless of age, gender, disability, lifestyle, religion or ethnic background - to apply for the position.