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Do you want meaningful tasks that make a difference in people's lives?

Welcome to a municipality that is far from average!

The responsibility of the Care and Elderly Services Department is to provide care, support, and assistance to the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as support to their relatives. Our goal is to provide good conditions for an independent, stimulating, and secure living situation – around the clock, with the citizen in focus. We are 2,500 employees who, in our various roles, provide support and care to those citizens who need it.

The Role and Responsibilities

We are now looking for dedicated and reliable personal assistants for a user with extensive care and support needs.

We are looking for you who have experience working with neurological diseases, such as ALS.

With us, you will have the opportunity to work closely with an individual and contribute to security, participation, and quality of life every day.

About the Assignment

As a personal assistant, you work in the user's home environment and provide support based on individual needs and wishes. The tasks include, among other things:

• Personal care, transfers, and use of aids (such as breathing machines, tube feeding, etc.).
• Support with hygiene and medical self-care measures according to instructions.
• Activities and social stimulation.
• Documentation and collaboration with relatives and other professionals.

The user has significant needs for support and supervision, which requires security, patience, and a professional attitude.

Working hours may be scheduled during the day, evening, night, and weekends.

What We Offer You

With us, you become part of a business where quality, respect, and care are at the center.

We offer:

• Introduction and support in the assignment.
• Dedicated colleagues and present management.
• Opportunities to develop within care and elderly services.
• Important and meaningful work every day.

You Who Apply to Us

Have a high school education from the care and nursing program, nurse assistant education, or equivalent.

Have experience with personal assistance, LSS (Support and Service Act for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments), or care and elderly services, knowledge of low-affective interaction, and good physical fitness as the work involves many lifts.

You have good computer skills, can document, and follow routines. You have good teamwork skills and master Swedish in both speech and writing.

Experience working with people with extensive disabilities is an advantage.

In addition to the above, you are calm, responsible, and have a genuine interest in working with people. You have the ability to create security and build long-term relationships while being able to work structured even in situations that require flexibility.

Other Information

For work within care and elderly services, an extract from the criminal record may be requested before employment. Interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis.

Apply today!

About Us

Botkyrka is a municipality full of contrasts where the suburb environment of the big city meets the forests, meadows, lakes, and sea coast of the countryside. Over 100 languages are spoken here, and people from all over the world live and work here.

We offer an inspiring workplace full of opportunities where we together create the best conditions for a sustainable future.

We have good and secure working conditions with collective agreements and several benefits so that you can thrive and develop at work. Read more here: Our Employer Offer.

Other Information

For positions within, for example, care, school, and elderly services in Botkyrka Municipality, you as a future employee must show an extract from the Police's criminal record. Botkyrka Municipality is subject to the principle of public access. This means that application documents are public documents as a general rule.

We work with competence-based recruitment to ensure the quality of the recruitment process and thereby counteract discrimination.

We decline contact from recruitment and staffing agencies in connection with this recruitment.