Vacant job

Together, we provide care and support to residents who need it for various reasons. Our services include special housing, social services, home care, personal assistance, and support for relatives. We focus on the individual and maintain a good approach. We take into account the wishes of those we serve and their relatives. With a respectful and attentive approach, we build safety and quality in our operations.

Welcome to Skara Municipality – we are looking for personal assistants who are passionate about creating meaningful activities and a safe everyday life for others!

We have implemented Microsoft Teams 360 to streamline communication between employees, support educators, and unit managers.

By combining digitalization with person-centered care and pedagogical methods, we strengthen the use of welfare technology. LifeCare and the integration of electronic time reporting (ELT) simplify time reporting to the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. This frees up time for individualized high-quality support while continuously enhancing our digital maturity and ensuring a safe and efficient digital work environment.

Your mission

As a personal assistant with us, you will work closely with individuals who have various support and care needs. You contribute to developing a meaningful everyday life and ensure that interventions are tailored to individual needs and wishes. The interventions are carried out with a rehabilitative/enabling approach to promote and maintain the individual's abilities as much as possible. This is a job that is truly important.

Now you have the opportunity to be involved in implementing a new case with us in personal assistance.

Who are you?

We are looking for an engaged and responsible personal assistant for a person with an acquired brain injury. We would like you to have experience or knowledge of how brain injuries affect cognition, behavior, and communication. We also prefer that you have knowledge and experience in meeting and supporting individuals with brain injuries in a low-affective manner.

You enjoy creating a stimulating, safe, and secure environment for others and have experience using alternative communication as support. You have a good ability to collaborate with both colleagues and relatives to ensure the best possible care. The work involves creating safety and predictability through a low-affective approach and being able to adapt your response based on the needs of the assistance user.

The work can be both physically and mentally demanding, so we are looking for someone who is attentive, patient, and secure in their professional role. You are expected to be comfortable using digital tools and have a desire to develop your digital competence. You are solution-focused, curious, and have an understanding, or a desire to understand, how digital tools can contribute to more effective and qualitative support.

Working hours

The working hours are scheduled for all hours of the day and every other weekend. This means that the work includes day, evening, and night shifts. We schedule working hours according to ATL, and the position includes sleeping on duty.

Qualifications

• Certified nursing assistant education or other training deemed suitable
• Experience in low-affective approaches, alternative and augmentative communication, e.g., communication aids and clarifying pedagogy
• Knowledge of acquired brain injuries and experience in personal assistance is considered an advantage
• Driving license B
• Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

Additional information

The recruitment process will begin immediately, and selection, interviews, and appointments may occur during the application period. We apply a probationary period.

Criminal record check

The employer has the right and, in many cases, the obligation to obtain extracts from the criminal record. The obligation for the employer arises in jobs where the employee will have contact with children and young people. If you are shortlisted for the position, you must be able to submit a criminal record extract from the Police. The form to order a criminal record extract can be downloaded from the Police's website: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/)

Benefits

As an employee of Skara Municipality, you will receive a wellness allowance, and in many roles, we apply flexible working hours with good opportunities for remote work and trust-based management and governance. We have strategically worked for several years on sustainable careers, meaning we can offer a workplace with good development opportunities, balance between leisure and work, and sustainability throughout the entire working life. We understand that competence development is an important part of ensuring your satisfaction in line with societal changes.

About Skara Municipality

Approximately 1,700 people work in various professional roles in Skara Municipality. Everyone is important for us to provide the best possible service to our residents. We are responsible for childcare, schools, elderly care, community planning, individual and family care, parks, food, environment, culture, leisure, and much more. We work together towards the UN's global goals, which focus on social, economic, and environmental sustainability.

All offers of recruitment and advertising assistance are declined. We only accept applications digitally via our recruitment program Varbi. Use the button at the bottom of the ad. If you have protected personal information, please contact the contact person indicated in the ad.

If you want to know more about Skara Municipality, you can find information at http://www.skara.se (http://www.skara.se)

Skara Municipality is part of Skaraborg; if you want to know more about life in Skaraborg, read here https://www.livetiskaraborg.se/ (https://www.livetiskaraborg.se/)