Personal Assistant for a Primary School-Aged Girl – Skövde Municipality

Personal assistance is a needs-assessed support service designed to enable individuals with disabilities to participate in society and live as independently as possible with the help of a personal assistant. This activity is part of the Health and Care Sector at Skövde Municipality.

The Health and Care Sector has an important societal mission. We provide support, services, care, and assistance to 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 will be surrounded by high competence, experienced colleagues, and managers. In this role, you will also receive much in return from the people you support.

To provide the best possible conditions for our users/patients to receive high-quality support and care, and for our employees to succeed and develop in their jobs, development work and continuous improvements are at the forefront of our focus. We strive to be at the forefront of what we do.

As an employee here, you are important. We want you to develop and stay, which is why you receive ongoing training and competence development. If you wish, there are all opportunities to try different roles and pursue an internal career.

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Job Responsibilities

We are looking for someone who wants a rewarding and developmental job. As a personal assistant, you have the opportunity to contribute to our users achieving the highest possible quality of life. Based on individual needs and wishes, you support our users by being a practical and everyday support, helping them with activities, personal care, and leisure activities.

We are a team, and we support and help each other. In the role of personal assistant, you contribute to the operation with your valuable in-depth knowledge in the field.

Your main placement will be with a girl of primary school age. She always needs an adult nearby who interprets and supports, listens, and initiates. Your work involves creating a safe, fun, and educational environment for her at home and at school.

You are an important part of her daily life and development and will play a central role in finding new perspectives to help her develop, both physically and cognitively.

Your work includes continuous contact with the habilitation center and collaboration with teachers and other professionals at the school. You are responsible for providing good and safe care as well as planning and carrying out activities. The goal of the operation is to offer the child a meaningful daily life with the child's needs and wishes at the center.

Within the Health and Care Sector, we work flexibly between the different units. This means you will also work shifts in other areas than the one you normally work in.

"A fantastic and fun job where 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

We are looking for you with a high school education and passing grades from the Care and Nursing program or the Child and Youth program, or other equivalent education. We would prefer that you have post-secondary education in a field relevant to the operation, such as a personal assistant course or a treatment assistant course. It is positive (but not a requirement) if you have experience working with mental or physical disabilities and/or experience working according to Individual Needs at the Center (IBIC). Experience with delegated tasks, clarifying pedagogy, low-affective handling, and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) is also considered an advantage.

As a person, you are calm and have a respectful, kind, and adapted approach. To succeed in the role, we see that you have good cooperation skills, are solution-focused, and adapt easily to new conditions. To thrive in the role, we believe you have the ability to take personal responsibility in your professional role, are proactive, and are accustomed to working independently.

We are therefore looking for you who is a secure person and keen on creating conditions for a meaningful daily life for a child with significant challenges. If you are inventive, in good physical shape, and have an interest in playful movement games, you fit well into the person we are looking for.

You will work closely with the child's family, so the work requires that you find it easy to cooperate while also being able to work independently.

In this role, it is important that you can communicate orally and in writing in Swedish, as you and the user need to understand each other, but also to be able to perform documentation. You are computer literate and preferably have experience with social documentation.

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

Employment Type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent.

Working in Skövde Municipality

In Skövde Municipality, we work with everything from care, support, and education to infrastructure, maintenance, cultural life, and growth. Here, there are hundreds of professions and 5,500 employees. The work looks different depending on which operation we work in, but all represent the same employer, Skövde Municipality, and our common mission is to be a welfare provider, societal developer, and employer. Equal, equitable, and inclusive operations are a matter of course for us.

As an employee in Skövde Municipality, you are an important player on 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 competence development, favorable pension conditions, fitness allowances, as well as several fitness activities and offers. And the 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 Health and Care 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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