§ 02 — Become Service assistant
Overview
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.”
Specialisations & levels
- 01Cleaning technician (stage 1)
- 02Hospital service (stage 2)
- 03Company service (stage 2)
Schools here that offer it
Click on a school to see all its educations. The same education is typically offered in several places in the country.
Where can you read it?
§ — Where can you read about Service assistant?
Service assistant is offered at 9 places in the country. The list is informational — always check the latest and complete offering on the Education Guide's vocational education map.
Hovedstaden
02- TEC – Technical Education Copenhagen — Frederiksberg
- U/NORD — Hillerød
Sjælland
02- CELF – Center for Erhvervsrettede uddannelser Lolland Falster — Nykøbing Falster
- ZBC (Zealand Business College) — Næstved
Syddanmark
01- EUC Syd — Sønderborg
Midtjylland
02- AARHUS TECH — Aarhus
- Skive College — Skive
Nordjylland
02- AMU Nordjylland — Aalborg
- EUC Nord — Hjørring
Mentioned in the programme overview
Names taken from the programme's own overview. We do not yet have all of them as schools here, so those appear without a map or link — always check the individual school for current classes, admission and entry requirements.
- AMU Nordjylland, Aalborg
- EUC Nord, Hjørring
- EUC Syd, Tønder
- Skive College, Skive
- TEC – Technical Education Copenhagen, Gladsaxe
- U/NORD, Hillerød
- UCE, Lolland
- ZBC, Holbæk
- ZBC, Roskilde
- ZBC, Slagelse
- AARHUS TECH, Aarhus
- m.fl.