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Care Assistant for Short-Term Services

GÖTEBORGS KOMMUN

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About the job

As a care assistant with us, you play an important role in creating a safe, meaningful, and dignified everyday life for our short-term residents.

You work from a rehabilitative and person-centered approach, focusing on the individual's resources and strengths.

Your tasks include personal care, support during meals, and motivation and encouragement in daily activities. You provide social support and engage in conversations with residents, as well as collaborate with relatives and other professionals. The work also includes documentation in the organization's IT system and tasks performed on behalf of licensed personnel.

Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, and weekends according to a roster.

As a care assistant with us, you have an important role in creating a safe, meaningful, and dignified everyday life for our short-term residents. Welcome to a workplace where we work together for quality, safety, and a sustainable work environment. We value your commitment and competence and offer a meaningful and varied job in a trusting work environment.

About you

We are looking for someone who:

  • Is a trained care assistant
  • Has a certificate from the National Board of Health and Welfare for protected professional title or can prove previous employment as a care assistant under the new regulations.
  • Has good experience with documentation in IT systems
  • Has good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written

Meritorious:

  • Further education in health and care
  • Experience in elderly care or short-term operations

In this role, you will meet many people, which requires good collaboration skills and the ability to work towards common goals. You are respectful and attentive in your meetings and always have the residents' best interests in focus. Since the work may involve changes in planning, you need to be able to remain calm, handle various demands, and prioritize when the situation requires it.

Recruitment process

In this recruitment, we use selection questions instead of a personal letter to create a more inclusive and fair process. When you apply, you will be asked questions relevant to the position. Your answers will be an important part of our selection process.

Warm welcome to your application!

Other

We are Sweden's largest municipal health and care provider. With us, you get:

  • An employer that promotes equal rights and opportunities regardless of background or professional competence
  • Secure employment
  • Meaningful tasks
  • Career opportunities and professional development
  • Full-time employment with the possibility of part-time
  • Good vacation terms
  • Wellness benefits, bicycle benefits, and other discounts and offers

Read more about our benefits here: https://goteborg.se/wps/portal/start/jobba-i-goteborgs-stad/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/formaner-och-lon (https://goteborg.se/wps/portal/start/jobba-i-goteborgs-stad/sa-ar-det-att-jobba-hos-oss/formaner-och-lon)

Before an employment offer, we ask you to present a criminal record extract from the police along with a valid identification document. The ordered extract must be unopened. You must request an extract from the police's criminal record, which you can do via the following link: https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/ (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/kontrollera-dina-uppgifter-i-belastningsregistret/)

You apply through our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR. Do you have protected personal data? Call the recruiting manager to find out more application options instead of submitting an application.

In this recruitment, you apply without a personal letter. When you apply, you will be asked questions relevant to the position. Your answers will be an important part of our selection process.

We do not welcome offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance. In this recruitment process, the choice of recruitment channels has already been determined.

About us

We are Sweden's largest municipal health and care provider in the most important industry of the future. With us, you make a difference in everyday life by creating security and joy for the elderly in Gothenburg. We combine modern technology with what can never be automated: the warmth of a genuine meeting. Here you get both career opportunities and a job that means something. Together we create the world's best city for a long and dignified life. Welcome.

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