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Care Assistant in Home Care

In home care, we provide service and personal care based on assessed needs, in the client's home. Skövde municipality is divided into several geographical home care areas. The operation is part of the care and support sector of Skövde municipality.

The care and support sector has an important societal mission. We work with support, service, care, and assistance for people of all ages, and our operations are characterized by professionalism and human values.

Here we work together as a team. We help and support each other when needed. You are surrounded by high competence, experienced colleagues, and managers. In this role, you also receive so much back from those you are there for. Smiles, gratitude, trust, laughter, friendship, and life stories – here you are always appreciated and significant.

To provide the best conditions for our clients/patients to receive the best support and care possible, and for our employees to succeed and develop at work, development work and continuous improvements are our focus. We want to be at the forefront of what we do.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for someone who wants an exciting and developing job. In the role of care assistant in home care, you have the opportunity to contribute to the quality of life for our clients. Our work is based on our guiding principles of safety, responsibility, and respectful treatment, and you are a significant part of the client's well-being. You work carefully and professionally with clients in their home environment, in collaboration with others in the work team. This also means working for good cooperation with other professionals and relatives.

As a care assistant, you are responsible for ensuring that our clients, based on their individual needs, receive social support and care, guidance, health care, and activation. The work also includes service tasks, such as preparing simple meals, washing dishes, laundry, and cleaning. The assignment also includes performing delegated and prescribed health care tasks, according to the Health and Medical Services Act (HSL).

Documentation in our systems is also an important part of the work.

Within the care and support sector, we work flexibly between different units. This means that you will also work shifts in other home care areas than the one you normally work in.

"A fantastic job, you do good. You go home feeling that you have done a good job and helped others. It is a rewarding job, you add a golden touch to everyday life".

QUALIFICATIONS

To work as a care assistant with us, you need to have training as a care assistant or equivalent. It is advantageous if you have had other similar work experience, preferably in dementia care, elderly care, or welfare technology, and that you have previous experience with delegated tasks. A requirement is that you can receive medication delegation from a nurse.

As a person, you need to be responsible and service-oriented, putting the individual's needs at the center. You are good at collaborating with colleagues, clients, relatives, and other partners both within and outside your own organization. We believe that we build a better operation through collaboration and development together with others. You find it easy to create relationships and you have a respectful approach.

A prerequisite for you to work with us is that you have a B driver's license. We want to contribute to a sustainable Skövde and care for the environment, so it is important that you can cycle, as we, where possible, cycle to our clients.

In this role, it is important that you can communicate orally and in writing in Swedish, as you and the client need to understand each other, but also to carry out documentation. You have computer skills and preferably also experience with social documentation.

Skövde municipality is a Finnish administrative area; if you have knowledge of the Finnish language, it is especially welcome.

Wanting to care for, support, and develop other people is one of the qualities most needed in our society. And you, who have that within you, are the real future.

Upon employment, a criminal record extract from the police must be presented.

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Working in Skövde municipality

In Skövde municipality, we work with everything from care, support, and education to infrastructure, maintenance, cultural life, and growth. With us, there are hundreds of professions and 5500 employees. The work looks different depending on which operation we work in, but everyone represents the same employer, Skövde municipality, and our common mission is to be a welfare provider, community developer, and employer. Gender-equal, equal, and inclusive operations are a given for us.

As an employee in Skövde municipality, you are an important player in a team that delivers services and support to our customers every day, all year round. It is in the meeting with our customers that the value of our work arises. We invest in you as an employee and offer professional development, favorable pension conditions, wellness grants, and several wellness activities and offers. And best of all, we have room for more.

Read more about us as an employer: https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/ (https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/)

Read more about the care and support sector: https://www.skovde.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/tjanstepersonsorganisation/sektor-vard-och-omsorg/ (https://www.skovde.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/tjanstepersonsorganisation/sektor-vard-och-omsorg/)

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