Personal Assistant 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 commute 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 good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Recently, Dagens Samhälle awarded Lerum the title of 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!

We are now looking for dedicated personal assistants who want to be part of creating a safe and meaningful everyday life for someone else.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Are you looking for a meaningful and varied job with the opportunity to make a difference? Then you might be the one we are looking for! We are currently seeking female personal assistants who are responsible and want to be part of a team to create stability and security for our users!

The work as a personal assistant involves a variety of tasks to assist the individual in their daily life. This includes common household tasks such as laundry and cooking, personal care, medication management according to delegation, and activities. The job also involves documentation and collaborating within the professional network surrounding the individual.

Your workplace is in the individual's home or at activities outside the home, which means you are given a great deal of trust that requires consideration and respect for the individual's integrity and independence.

As a person, you are secure, calm, and have a good empathetic ability and understanding of integrity. You have a respectful attitude and provide good service in all situations. You can adapt and prioritize your work according to needs.

Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, sleeping on-call, and weekend shifts. We base this on the user's decisions and may need to adjust working hours if changes occur.

QUALIFICATIONS

It is advantageous if you have experience in similar work and knowledge of physical disabilities and experience with mobility aids/lifting techniques. It is also beneficial if you have relevant education, such as the care and nursing program or similar education that the employer considers equivalent. Personal suitability will be given great importance.

As a person, you are calm, secure, and responsible. You have good collaboration skills and are good at listening to the person you are working for.

You should be comfortable expressing yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish, as communication and documentation are important parts of the job. Experience with sign language, signs as support, and AAC is advantageous.

Since you will be working in places where public transportation may be lacking and may need to travel between different homes, a driver's license is required, and access to a personal car is strongly desired.

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

We care about a good work 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 care programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: https://lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

As an employee in 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 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!

For this recruitment, we have already decided on the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly ask not to be contacted for further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.