Vacant job

Description

Personal assistance is a support system designed to enable individuals with significant disabilities to participate in society and lead as independent a life as possible.

The personal assistance is based on the individual's needs.

Job Responsibilities

We are currently seeking a personal assistant for a work group for one of our child cases in central Karlstad. Together with guardians and colleagues, you will be part of creating a good everyday life for the care recipient, where routines and working methods are important.

You who are applying are someone who wants to work with children and who is comfortable with potentially challenging behavior. You need to be physically active and strong, alert, and have the ability to stay one step ahead. You want to make a difference for the person you are there for and are flexible and adaptable to follow the boy's needs.

As a personal assistant, you are a key player in ensuring that this boy has a meaningful life and can live like others. The boy needs support and help to ensure that his environment is safe and secure as he lacks both consequence thinking and impulse control, but is also sensitive to stimuli and changes. The work involves seeing the world through the boy's curious eyes and adapting the environment so that he can explore it on his own terms.

Since the boy is active, tasks include long walks, bike rides, climbing at playgrounds, visiting the swimming pool, and being active outdoors year-round regardless of the weather.

The boy attends school, so working hours are scheduled on school days from the afternoon until the following morning. You will work every other weekend, and during weekends and school breaks, daytime work may also occur. As a personal assistant, you will work in the boy's home in close collaboration with the parent, so it is important that the chemistry feels right for everyone. Since the work involves working with children, an additional suitability assessment of the parent is required. In this assistance, you are expected to be calm, secure, and stable with a strong sense of responsibility, as well as having a genuine desire to work with a child who needs active support to interact with the environment.

Qualifications

We welcome both girls and boys to apply, but you must have a very good command of the Swedish language. It is a requirement that you are smoke-free!

Previous experience as a personal assistant, preferably with a focus on autism and low-arousal approaches, is an advantage. We also appreciate experience working with visual support, signs, and various aids that facilitate everyday life. It is also beneficial if you have an appropriate educational background in care, social work, or pedagogy. Personal suitability and chemistry are of great importance. To succeed in the role, you need to be calm and secure in yourself and possess the ability to handle different people and their emotional expressions.

You have an easy time creating and maintaining good relationships. You have a professional approach and a good ability to collaborate with the individual, relatives, colleagues, and other important professionals. In your execution, you are responsible and thorough. As situations can change rapidly, you are solution-focused and flexible. We also see that you have good physical fitness to manage all activities involved in the assignment.

Before confirmed employment, we request an extract from the criminal record. Therefore, it is advisable to order these extracts in time to present when offered employment. The records you order are "Control of own data" and for "Work with children under LSS".

Before you start working, you will receive an introduction to ensure that you gain knowledge about the boy's routines and learn to handle the equipment that the boy needs.

Night work involves being on call according to Appendix J.

Selection and interviews will take place continuously during the application period, so do not wait to apply.

About Karlstad Municipality

The Care and Social Services Administration is an administration focused on development and innovation, which is reflected in our long-standing role as a model municipality for welfare technology in Sweden. The administration employs around 2,000 staff within nursing homes, sheltered housing, home care, support for disabilities, health and medical care, and at our assistance office. These are important jobs where we truly make a difference. Our goal is always to provide professional, person-centered care and support.

Do you want to help create the future of Karlstad? With us in the Karlstad municipality group, you can truly make a difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help realize our vision of "A better life in the Sun City." Come and grow with us!

Additional Information

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application via our recruitment system and not via email or paper format. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

If you have protected personal information, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system or send them via email. Instead, please contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.