Personal Assistance in 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 travel time from Gothenburg and is currently facing a development-intensive period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure both good service, high welfare, and a flourishing business climate.

Recently, Dagens Samhälle 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 have experience in healthcare and enjoy a role where your skills are truly needed? Then you should apply for Personal Assistance this summer!

Schedule Period

You will work during the period of weeks 26–33. To receive a work schedule, you must be available to work at least four consecutive weeks during this period, but you can preferably work the entire summer. The minimum employment rate will be 75%, but there is also the possibility of working 100% in certain operations.

Working Hours

The shifts are scheduled for days, evenings, and sleeping on-call, weekdays and weekends. 24-hour shifts may also be relevant.

Introduction

Before your first shift, you will be introduced by a supervisor at the workplace, where you will learn about tasks, routines, and the needs of the users. You will also complete online training and receive medication delegation.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

The assignments involve extensive care work, where you need to be comfortable working independently and physically active. It is a responsible and meaningful assignment where you make a real difference for another person every day.

You work in the user's home but also collaborate with colleagues, relatives, and other professional actors in the user's vicinity.

The tasks may include:

• Personal care, including showering, toilet visits, and hygiene routines
• Transfers using aids - good technique and experience are required
• Medication management according to delegation
• Support during meals, tube feeding may occur
• Cleaning, laundry, and other household tasks
• Social support and presence
• Participation in activities, such as walks or outings
• Documentation according to applicable routines in our systems

QUALIFICATIONS

Who are you?

You have previously worked in personal assistance or another form of care and are confident in your professional role. You are used to taking responsibility, working independently, and acting professionally in various situations. Your commitment to good care is evident in your interactions with users, relatives, and colleagues.

You have previously had medication delegation. We prefer that you have experience working according to implementation plans and following up on interventions according to decisions.

To thrive in the role, you need to be structured, have good judgment, and be able to build trusting relationships. We place particular emphasis on empathy, service mindset, and integrity, qualities that are central to everything we do.

Documentation is a natural part of the work, as is communication with care recipients, relatives, colleagues, and other professional actors. Therefore, good knowledge of the Swedish language, both spoken and written, is required.

Important to Know

Before employment can be offered, you need to present a valid extract from the Police Authority's criminal record. You order it yourself via the police's website. When you submit your application, you will receive a link and instructions in the auto-reply.

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OTHER

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 gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and degrading treatment.

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

To quality assure 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!

For this recruitment, we have already decided 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.