Support Assistant at Larsesgården Short-Term Care

In our short-term care homes, we provide various services for people with disabilities; short-term supervision, short-term stays, accompaniment, and respite care at home. The activity is part of the Health and Care sector, Skövde Municipality.

The Health and Care 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 the role, you also get 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 users/patients to receive the best possible support and care, and for our employees to succeed and develop in their jobs, development work and continuous improvements are in focus for us. We want to be at the forefront of what we do.

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

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Job Responsibilities

We are looking for a support assistant for Larsesgården Short-Term Care for children and young people with disabilities. We work with LSS services such as short-term supervision and short-term stays, as well as accompaniment service and respite service for children and young people with disabilities.

You will be part of a staff group together with other support assistants and support educators. Together with your work team, you are responsible for good and secure care as well as planning and carrying out activities. The assignment also includes regular evaluation and work with documentation in our systems. The goal of the activity is to offer the users a meaningful stay with the users' needs and wishes in focus, as well as providing relief for parents.

You will work according to a schedule that includes day/evening and weekends. Within the Health and Care sector, we work flexibly between the different units. This means that you will also work shifts (resource shifts) at other units.

Qualifications

We are looking for you with a high school education and passing grades from the care and nursing program or the child and leisure program, or other equivalent education.

Desirable is experience with clarifying pedagogy, low-affective handling, and alternative communication (AKK). It is desirable that you have experience working with people with disabilities such as intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. Experience working with children and young people is also meritorious.

As a person, you are calm and secure and have a respectful, good, and adapted approach. You have the ability to build trust. To succeed in the role, we also see that you need to be very flexible and able to adapt quickly to different situations. The work involves great responsibility, the ability to plan and make decisions, cooperate, and collaborate.

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

A prerequisite for you to be able to work with us is that you have a Category B driver's license for a manually shifted car.

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

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, Start date: 2026-09-01.

In Skövde Municipality, we work with everything from care, support, and education to infrastructure, maintenance, cultural life, and growth. Among us are hundreds of professions and 5,500 employees.

Equal, equitable, and inclusive operations are a matter of course 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 competence development, favorable pension conditions, fitness allowances, as well as several fitness activities and offers. And best of all, we have room for more.

In Skövde Municipality, we have individual and differentiated salary setting. Information about salary intervals for positions:
https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/skovde-kommun-som-arbetsgivare/lon-och-lonesattning/ (https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/skovde-kommun-som-arbetsgivare/lon-och-lonesattning/)

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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/)