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Hourly Substitutes for Kitchens in Preschool, School, and Elderly Care

KARLSTADS KOMMUN

Värmlands län, Karlstad

Previous experience is desired

34 days left
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Description

Do you have an interest in food, orderliness, and enjoy providing good service? If so, we might be looking for you! We are currently seeking hourly substitute staff for our kitchen substitute pool in preschools, schools, and elderly care, where you will find meaningful work with a wide network of contacts.

As a substitute, you are vital for our youngest citizens to ensure they have a pleasant stay in our schools and preschools. In the substitute pool, you replace permanent staff as needed, making you a crucial piece in ensuring our operations run smoothly. Sometimes you cover single shifts with short notice, and other times for longer periods.

Job Responsibilities

In the substitute pool, you will be employed as a cook or kitchen assistant.

  • As a cook, you are responsible for cooking, salad preparation, packing, dishwashing/cleaning, and self-inspections in large kitchens. To work as a cook, you need relevant education and documented experience from kitchen work.
  • As a kitchen assistant, you help with the preparation of breakfast, lunch, and snacks in large kitchens. You are also responsible for dishwashing, cleaning in the kitchen and dining room, serving meals, and participating in self-inspections. In elderly care, cash handling is also included. To work as a kitchen assistant, you need relevant education and/or documented experience from kitchen work.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is at least 18 years old and proficient in Swedish, both written and spoken. To succeed in this role, we see that you are service-oriented, flexible in your approach as you often meet new staff and children's groups, self-motivated, tidy, structured, and take responsibility for your tasks. We place great emphasis on personal qualities and interest in the position.

As a substitute, you must be able to work at least two days a week, which may also involve weekend work, and be able to work throughout Karlstad Municipality, including our outer areas (Molkom, Vålberg, Edsvalla, Väse, and Skattkärr).

Selection and interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis, so do not wait with your application.

What can we offer you?

As an employee in the Child and Youth Administration, you have the opportunity to improve the daily lives of our children and students. Working in the substitute pool means you control when you are available for work, enabling a balance between leisure and work. You will be employed by a secure employer where all employees are covered by collective agreements. If you work in the substitute pool for a longer period, there are good opportunities for longer assignments and permanent positions.

Information about salary levels can be found here (#) (select "View salary statistics"). This recruitment concerns AID code 601012.

About Karlstad Municipality

The Child and Youth Administration is responsible for preschool and school for approximately 13,200 children and students and is the municipality's largest administration with just over 2,400 employees. We have preschools, family daycares, open preschools, preschool classes, primary schools, adapted primary schools, after-school centers, and a cultural school, and we also work with child and student health issues. We prepare children for the future.

Do you want to help create the Karlstad of the future? With us in the Karlstad Municipality group, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help realize our vision of "A better life in the City of the Sun." Come and grow with us!

Other Information

To ensure quality in the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application via our recruitment system and not via email or paper format. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

If you have protected personal data, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system, nor send them via email. Instead, contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.

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