Job Advertisement: Escort and Respite Workers in Danderyd Municipality

Join us in making Sweden's best municipality even better. Danderyd Municipality offers community, development, and participation at work. We make a difference and create value in everyday life in dialogue with everyone who lives, works, and operates here. Through proximity and short decision-making paths, you have the opportunity to take responsibility and work with both parts and the whole in your profession. Here we grow together with engaged residents, businesses, and competent colleagues in the beautiful environment of the garden city. Take the step to a developing and sustainable working life in a suitably sized municipality close to everything.

We want to ensure that residents of Danderyd Municipality have the opportunity to participate in community life, receive relief when needed, or live an independent life. Based on government decisions, we can offer escort services, respite care at home, and a contact person for the municipality's residents.

Do you enjoy working with people and place great value on making a difference in someone else's everyday life? We are now looking for Escort and Respite Workers for several clients. Welcome with your application!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As an Escort, you support a person with a disability to an active, social, and meaningful everyday life. You base your work on the interests and activities our clients wish to engage in. This can include anything from playing board games, participating in sports, going to the theater, visiting museums, or having a coffee together.

As a Respite Worker at home, your role is to relieve parents and provide quality time for the child/children by playing both indoors and outdoors. This can involve anything from playing football, jumping on a trampoline, socializing, crafting, singing, making music, drawing, or reading a book.

The assignments vary from several meetings per week to one meeting every other week, and you plan your schedule together with the client. When you submit an application, you will be asked which days and times you are available to work.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who can communicate well in Swedish, both spoken and written, so that you can communicate freely with the client.

It is advantageous if you:

• have previously worked with children
• have experience working with individuals with disabilities
• have knowledge and experience of neuropsychiatric disabilities
• are vaccinated against Covid-19 as Danderyd Municipality strives for a high vaccination coverage from a patient safety and quality perspective

We are looking for someone who enjoys working with people and places great value on making a difference in someone else's everyday life. As a person, you are a good listener, considerate, and show understanding for others. You are responsible and provide security to your surroundings. We believe you enjoy being creative, thinking outside the box, and finding new solutions easily with a positive attitude. You value good collaboration and have an easy time building new relationships with others. We place great importance on personal suitability.

For this recruitment, we are conducting ongoing interviews and matching. We match experience and interests according to our clients' individual needs and interests. If your profile matches one of our current requests, we will contact you for an interview.

For this position, you will need to present a valid extract from the criminal record before an employment contract can be established. You can order such a document at www.polisen.se (https://www.polisen.se).

OTHER

Danderyd Municipality strives for a workforce composition that reflects the diversity of society. We offer an exciting workplace with many friendly and knowledgeable colleagues. Please visit our job portal https://www.danderyd.se/ovriga-verksamheter/jobb/ (https://www.danderyd.se/ovriga-verksamheter/jobb/) if you want to know what our managers say about the municipality's mission and future development. Here you can also gather information about our benefits. More information about our operations can be found at www.danderyd.se (https://www.danderyd.se).

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Danderyd Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we request that you submit your application digitally as indicated above.

Bring your grades and other documents to a possible interview.

Warm welcome with your application!

We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.