Health Assistant

The Neriusaaq nursing home is seeking a health assistant to provide residents with a safe and meaningful life. The position involves shift work and requires a health-promoting and rehabilitative approach. You will work in a multidisciplinary team and contribute to residents' care and health-related tasks.

If you want to provide residents with a safe and meaningful existence, there is now a vacant position as a health assistant starting on April 1, 2026, with varying shifts around the clock and every day of the week at the Neriusaaq Nursing Home.

About the Nursing Home Neriusaaq

Neriusaaq is a nursing home that was inaugurated in 2008, featuring bright and beautiful common areas as well as good rooms. The nursing home is divided into three departments and accommodates 43 residents with varying needs for care and support around the clock, as well as one respite care space.

We place great emphasis on creating a safe and homely environment without an institutional feel, where the collaboration with residents and their relatives is open, respectful, and trustworthy.

Everyday life at Neriusaaq is characterized by a focus on dignity, presence, and a good daily life for each resident, supported by shared values and goals that ensure continuous development.

As a health assistant at the Neriusaaq Nursing Home, you work based on a health-promoting and rehabilitative approach. You contribute to coherence and continuity in the residents' daily lives and carry out basic care and health-related tasks based on the residents' individual needs, wishes, and resources.

You participate in an interdisciplinary collaboration with colleagues and management and play an important role in creating safety, structure, and professional quality in daily work.

  • care and support for residents, including assistance with self-care
  • and administration of medication
  • in collaboration with the nurse
  • and transmission of observations in VIPS
  • tasks related to everyday life in the nursing home
  • trained health assistant
  • responsibly, independently, and with a high level of professional awareness
  • flexible, adaptable, and positive towards changes
  • nursing home with a focus on dignity, development, and professional quality
  • and training
  • fitness

Salary and employment conditions:

Salary and employment conditions are in accordance with the current agreements between the Government of Greenland and SIK.

The position can be assigned to housing.

Further information:

Further information about the position can be obtained from the Principal in Neriusaaq Anne Lyberth anls@qeqqata.gl or Nursing Professional Leader Malu K. Kreutzmann maka@qeqqata.gl or call 81 70 11.

Application:

Application with relevant examination papers, CV, testimonials, and references must be uploaded before the deadline.

How to apply:

Applications must be submitted electronically via the link at the bottom of this page, where you can attach your application, CV, etc.

Employer Details

Qeqqata Kommunia

Makkorsip Aqquserna 2

3911 Sisimiut , Grønland

Email: Anls@qeqqata.gl

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Job Title

Health Assistant

Job Type

Full Time

Application Deadline

Mar 13, 2026

Contact Person

Anne Lyberth
Anls@qeqqata.gl
81 70 11

Job category

Social and health /
Care and support

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