Service assistant

As a service assistant you ensure hospitals companies and institutions function in daily life. You work with cleaning hygiene and practical service tasks and help create clean safe and well-functioning frames for others. It is a trade with people around you and an important role that is felt every single day.

§What do you do in everyday life?

A typical day involves cleaning and hygiene in buildings often in a hospital or large workplace. You plan your tasks use machines and the right methods and ensure high hygiene standards — especially where it matters most such as in hospitals. You also help with practical service tasks and meet many people throughout the day.

• 01You learn professional cleaning and hygiene
• 02You learn to use cleaning machines and the right products.
• 03You learn the special hygiene requirements in hospitals
• 04You learn to plan and prioritize your tasks.
• 05You learn good service and communication with people.

§How do you get started?

You start with a basic course at a vocational school and then find an apprenticeship, often in a region, municipality, or service company. You get apprentice wages throughout the education and alternate between school stays and practice so you learn both the theory of hygiene and the practical work in everyday life.

§The way forward

As a fully trained service assistant there are good job opportunities in the health system and at service companies. You can specialise in for example hospital hygiene become a team leader or build further with courses and other education within service and cleaning.

“Clean and safe – it's not by chance. It's someone who has done their job well.”