Summer Job as a Personal Assistant in Strängnäs

How about a versatile and creative job this summer? In personal assistance in Strängnäs, you will meet interesting people with different needs and circumstances. You will develop as a person while contributing to the well-being of others!

As a personal assistant, you make a difference every day by supporting adults with various physical and/or mental disabilities. You assist with daily tasks at home, personal care, and creating a meaningful leisure time. The client's goals are our goals. There will be opportunities to work throughout the summer or parts of it. We offer varying working hours such as day/evening, night, and weekends.

As a member of our team, you will develop qualities such as creativity, flexibility, courage, empathy, and teamwork skills. Regardless of what you choose to do in your future career, this is a unique opportunity.

If you enjoy working with us, there are good opportunities to continue working with us. We are a reliable employer and take responsibility for your well-being.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a personal assistant, your work takes place in the client's home and is uniquely tailored to each individual's needs. No day is like the other! Often, you work independently, which gives you both the freedom and responsibility to shape your work in the best way.

Being a personal assistant is a special mission that brings both challenges and joy. You get the chance to build close relationships and contribute to someone else's quality of life. A job with heart, care, and great significance. With us, you will receive solid training to feel secure in your role. We work with trained supervisors and use appreciated introductory materials for new employees.

We are looking for someone who can work the entire summer period or parts of it, from June to August. There may also be an opportunity to start your employment earlier or extend it after the summer as we have a continuous need for substitutes.

QUALIFICATIONS

Who are you? We are looking for someone who has:

• turned 18 years old.
• good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written.
• good computer skills to manage the organization's systems for social documentation.
• the ability to work independently while following the organization's routines and methods regarding clients.
• the ability to work during the summer period, June-August.
• a B driver's license.

It is an advantage if you have:

• education from the nursing program or the child and leisure program, post-secondary education in behavioral science, special education, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer.
• experience in the LSS area and have worked with neuropsychiatric disabilities and psychiatry.
• worked with low-arousal approaches and have experience creating pedagogical environments characterized by calm and positive expectations.
• experience of delegation from a nurse.

When working in clients' homes, you need to be prepared for the possibility of pets being present. For work with children and youth, a criminal record extract must be shown before employment.

As a person, you need to be able to build trust, instill security and calm in your professional role. Being responsive and empathetic is important as some clients may have difficulty expressing their wishes and needs in verbal communication. To be able to handle the tasks with the client, both care work and leisure activities, you need to have generally good physical health. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability and interest in working with the target group.

If you enjoy working with people, are creative, and have a heart for care, then this job is for you! Come and make this summer unforgettable with us. We look forward to hearing from you!

OTHER

We offer a dynamic workplace with a wide range of meaningful and challenging jobs with good opportunities to influence and develop. In Strängnäs municipality, over 2,500 knowledgeable and competent employees work. Together, we work to make the daily lives of residents as good as possible now and in the future. In the organization, we actively work with our vision and values characterized by respect, openness, development, and clarity.

With us, you can make a difference, both for the individual and for society. Together we make each other better!

We ask you as an applicant to be responsible for documenting your qualifications in a way that allows for an objective, qualitative assessment. As a municipality, we are subject to the principle of public access, which means we are obliged to disclose application documents requested by the public and the media.

Since public transport does not suit all our working hours, it is important that you as an applicant ensure that you can get to and from the workplace without relying on public transport.

For work with children and youth, a criminal record extract must be shown before employment.

Strängnäs municipality has made media choices for this recruitment and therefore firmly requests no contact with advertisement sellers or other sellers of recruitment services. Strängnäs municipality applies a smoke-free working time.