Care Assistant at Lerum Municipality

Lerum Municipality is known for its scenic locations with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects to grow significantly in the coming years. Lerum is only a 20-minute commute from Gothenburg and is currently facing an intensive development period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle has recently named Lerum the winner in the category of metropolitan municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, healthcare, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business, and future factors like digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

Do you want to work in team collaboration with a fantastic group? Do you want to help develop care together with competent colleagues?

Our workplace is characterized by professionalism and a striving for good quality. For us, professional development is a natural part of succeeding in the job.

We continue to further develop our operations based on close collaboration in a multiprofessional team. All our employees have received training in person-centered working methods. We are now looking for care assistants who want to work with us in our somatic and dementia units. With your help and competence, we want our tenants to be able to live a good life.

The new Lundbygården was built in 2014 and has both somatic and dementia focus. The building has nurses, coordinators, and unit managers on-site to provide the best service.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The work as a care assistant involves having a professional approach to residents, relatives, and colleagues. You will support residents in their daily lives towards the goals set in the implementation plan. Working with delegation and taking on new delegations is necessary, as is independently maintaining social documentation and establishing implementation plans in the operational system. It is important to actively participate as an employee in the development of the workplace. We work with fixed care contacts where you become an important part of our tenants' lives and well-being. You will also have the opportunity to work in various advocacy roles and specialize particularly in an area where ongoing training and municipal meetings are provided.

QUALIFICATIONS

We place great importance on having competent staff, and education as a care assistant or equivalent is a requirement.

To succeed in your work, you should enjoy the fact that the content of the work often changes and working together in a team that highlights each other's strengths. Supporting our residents to a meaningful existence gives you energy and joy. You are professional, attentive, and respectful in your approach. You have high knowledge in nursing and a drive to learn new things and try new methods in your approach. Knowledge and/or experience in low-arousal approaches is an advantage.

All colleagues are expected to collaborate flexibly across the building to best utilize each other's skills and our resources. Good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, is required, and it is also advantageous to know additional languages.

The job requires you to be able to work on delegation from licensed personnel and have good computer skills.

Work occurs during the day, evening, and weekends. Start date is by agreement.

Before an employment offer, an acceptable extract from the Police Authority's criminal record must be presented. You will order your own criminal record.

Recruitment will be ongoing, welcome to apply today!

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The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our governance is based on the global goals of Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and positively develop the individual, the organization, and society. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and degrading treatment.

We care about a good working environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee with us, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as wellness grants and employee welfare programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: https://lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

As an employee of Lerum Municipality, there may be a requirement to use personal Bank-ID in the service for authentication in, for example, system login or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

Warm welcome with your application!

In preparation for this recruitment, we have already taken a position on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly request not to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.