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Personal Assistant – Make a Difference Every Day! Would you like a job where you get the opportunity to make a real difference in another person's daily life? Are you reliable, engaged, and do you have a genuine interest in supporting people based on their individual needs and circumstances? Leksand Municipality is now seeking a personal assistant for one of our groups, where you will work closely with a user with extensive support needs. The work is varied and meaningful and involves creating security, participation, and as independent a daily life as possible together with your colleagues. With us, you will have the opportunity to use your commitment, creativity, and professional skills to create a good and fulfilling daily life. Highlights of the job: - A job where you make a concrete difference in another person's daily life. - A varied workday where no two days need to be alike. - The opportunity to create activities and contribute to participation and quality of life. - A job where relationships, security, and continuity are central. Your responsibilities As a personal assistant, your primary task is to provide safe, respectful, and individualized support based on the user's needs and circumstances. Your responsibilities include: - Provide support with personal care and various daily situations - Provide support with activities and create opportunities for participation and community - Support and motivate participation in activities based on the individual's interests and daily disposition - Contribute to structure, clarity, and predictability in daily life - Handle and prevent challenging situations in a calm, professional, and respectful manner - Follow established routines and individual work methods - Collaborate closely with colleagues and other people around the individual - Document according to the organization's routines - Contribute to the development of work methods and service quality. The work requires you to be responsive to the individual's signals and needs, adapt your approach, and at the same time be confident in setting clear and well-balanced boundaries when the situation requires it. The position is a permanent employment at 80.34% and includes shifts day/evening/weekend/night. Start date is by agreement and individual salary setting is applied. Your profile We are looking for someone who: - Has experience working as a personal assistant - Has experience providing individually adapted support - Is confident working closely with a person with extensive support needs - Has good ability to follow routines and individual work methods - Has good ability to collaborate with colleagues and other professionals - Has good Swedish in speech and writing - Has basic digital skills and can document according to the organization's routines. It is an advantage if you have experience with: - Working with people with extensive disabilities - Preventing and managing challenging situations - Low-arousal approaches - Visual supports and clarifying pedagogy - Working according to LSS (Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Disabilities). To thrive and succeed in this role, you need to be reliable, stable, and responsive. You have the ability to stay calm even when situations become challenging and can adapt your approach based on the individual's needs and daily disposition. You are a person who sees possibilities and is not afraid to think creatively when it comes to creating a meaningful daily life. You are patient, responsible, and understand the importance of continuity and clarity in your work. We are looking for someone who sees the person behind the support needs and who wants to help create a daily life where the individual has the opportunity to be included, feel secure, and experience joy and meaning. We place great emphasis in this recruitment process on your personal profile. About the workplace You will become part of a small and tight-knit work team of four employees who work together with personal assistance according to LSS. The group is characterized by good cooperation, close communication, and a strong sense of community. The work involves working independently and alone with the user, which requires responsibility, reliability, and the ability to make independent decisions in daily life. At the same time, the work team is always there as important support. You collaborate, share experiences, and help each other to create a safe and well-functioning daily life for the user. As a new team member, you will become an important part of a small group where everyone contributes to the whole and where there are good opportunities to get to know both the user and your colleagues well. What we offer you For us, it is important that all our employees find a balance between work and home, feel secure in their employment, and an increased quality of life through working in the municipality. If we succeed with that, there are good conditions to also succeed with our common task, which is: We do what we are supposed to do by taking shared responsibility for our democratic mission, using our resources wisely, and always keeping focus on those we are here to serve. We do it well and are proud of our work and the results we achieve, and we welcome engaged and courageous employees who want to develop and improve together with us. We do it together by cooperating and learning from each other. Dialogue is important to us, and we find new solutions together with those we are here to serve, with trust, care, and respect. We strive for a health-promoting work environment, job satisfaction, community, and personal development. Competence development is a given, and we encourage our employees to further develop themselves through courses, training, and networking. On our website, we have collected information about what it is like to work for us. For more information, please see https://leksand.se/jobba-hos-oss As a candidate, we have the ability to offer relocation service, see further http://www.rekryteringslots.se Your application To ensure quality in the recruitment process at Leksand Municipality and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link. The application documents consist of a CV and a personal letter. Please note that certain positions within Leksand Municipality are subject to background checks. The type of check performed depends on the position's content and responsibilities. If the current position is covered by this, you will receive information about it in connection with the recruitment process. Deadline for application: August 23. Appointment is made by agreement. We review CVs on an ongoing basis, so it is good if you submit your application as soon as possible. Follow us on social media. Welcome with your application! Contact persons Jessica Eriksson Unit Manager LSS Unit 0247-80 462 [email protected]

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