Personal Assistant

Welcome to Lidköping! You're looking for new challenges. We're looking for you! We hope you want to be part of a welcoming and sustainable municipality driven by commitment. In Lidköping, water is always nearby with Lake Vänern and the archipelago around the corner, and the Lidan River winding through the city. It's a place rich in history that we embrace while focusing on developing and planning for Lidköping's future. Here, you'll have the opportunity to try new things and grow while making a daily difference for residents, businesses, associations, and visitors in Lidköping. Welcome with your application to the Lidköping Municipality! Warmly welcome to Lidköping – a sustainable and welcoming municipality! We are seeking assistants for a wheelchair-bound woman just outside Lidköping. Personal assistance is fundamentally about commitment to another human being who needs help with everyday things many take for granted, such as personal hygiene, dressing and undressing, mobility, cooking, exercise, household management, and activities. As a personal assistant, you are a support that helps the client create structure and security in daily life. Working hours vary and include overnight shifts with on-call sleep duty. Work will be performed for multiple clients. Work in assistance often involves solo work, so we are seeking someone who is confident, independent, and meticulous. You are calm, compassionate, and have a professional approach. You place the client at the center, are responsible, and have good collaborative skills. The work of a personal assistant can be physically demanding, so it's important that you have good physical ability and take care of your own health. Care and support are provided based on individual needs, integrity, and self-determination. You have a legal and professional responsibility for established tasks according to the Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS) and the Health and Medical Services Act (HSL). Documentation and medication management are part of the assignment. We use several digital tools. Requirements: To be employed as a personal assistant, the following is required: Approved vocational examination from healthcare and care program, or child and leisure program with social orientation, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer. Since social documentation and communication are important in your work, you need good Swedish language skills and computer proficiency. You also need good physical condition to fulfill the assignment. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. Additional Information: We primarily seek female personal assistants, and the selection process may begin and proceed continuously during the application period. Permanent full-time employment that may start with a probationary period. Working hours are scheduled for day, evening, and weekend. In our operation, all employees working in the disability area must, by law (2010:479), show an extract from the criminal record register. The form can be obtained at the provided link. Processing time is usually 1-2 weeks, and the extract must be shown to the hiring manager before employment. Please order your extract today. Lidköping Municipality wants you to submit your application through our recruitment tool Varbi. You'll find a button at the bottom of the advertisement to log in and apply for the position. If you cannot apply this way (e.g., protected identity), please contact the advertisement's contact person for alternative application methods. We decline calls from staffing and recruitment agencies and job advertisement sellers. Wondering what to do and see when you're not working? Lidköping offers a rich life, not about money but about the opportunities to live well. There are plenty of essential life elements here. Good schools, safe areas, a diverse business community, and an active sports and association life. And of course, a beautiful, lake-side location by Lake Vänern. Discover more opportunities at the provided links.