Care Assistant in Skellefteå Municipality

In Skellefteå Municipality, we work together across borders, in a work culture characterized by an unusually strong belief in the future. We are now looking for care assistants who want to work in Europe's most expansive region and help build the future of care and support.

As a care assistant, you will be part of a team where we work primarily for others but also for each other. Within the social office's care and support department, we provide support to people throughout Skellefteå Municipality. Together, we design support that contributes to a meaningful everyday life with good care. Every day, for all of Skellefteå.

We are looking for care assistants for the following care and support homes for work during the day/evening/weekend:

• Burträskgårdarna, Burträsk
• Hedvigsgården, Kåge
• Höjden, Moröbacke
• Regnbågen, Anderstorp
• Trivseln, Ursviken
• Ömheten, Moröbacke

We know that a new start requires security. Therefore, we help you find housing when you become part of Skellefteå Municipality. Warm welcome to become one of us!

Here you can read more about each care and support home: http://skelleftea.se/voo-boende (http://skelleftea.se/voo-boende)

JOB DESCRIPTION

The work within care and support consists of helping and encouraging individuals in their daily lives to manage daily tasks based on their own abilities. You will perform care tasks based on the decisions made. This means that you support the individual according to their needs, such as assistance with mobility and personal hygiene. The work includes documenting, planning, and organizing daily tasks.

As a care assistant, you will be the contact person and together with the individual, write an implementation plan and ensure it is followed. The work is carried out in close collaboration with colleagues, relatives, and other resource persons.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who enjoys helping people and has an easy time understanding others' situations. It is natural for you to show respect for others' wishes and needs. You enjoy collaborating with others and are good at finding solutions together to achieve our common goal. Since working with people involves constant changes, it is important that you can adapt and maintain a good mood.

It is important that you can speak and write in Swedish so that individuals and colleagues understand you, while you also need to be able to adapt how you express yourself based on others' varying abilities. It is important that you have sufficiently good physical conditions to manage the tasks the job entails.

We prefer that you have had a job where you have interacted with people in various situations. It is also advantageous if you have completed training as a care assistant or similar education. If you have experience in caring for people and knowledge of cognitive diseases, we also see this as a benefit.

In some of our workplaces, a B driver's license is required.

Skellefteå Municipality is a Finnish and Sami administrative municipality, so it is advantageous if you can speak Finnish. If you can also use sign language, we see this as an asset in our operations.

OTHER

The staff at the social office provide care, support, and assistance to people throughout Skellefteå. They may be elderly, people with physical or mental disabilities, or individuals and families in need of special support for a period.

Our operations are located throughout the municipality, and we have specialists in several areas within care, support, nutrition, assistance and activation for people with disabilities, addiction treatment, family counseling, and much more. With empathy, knowledge, and commitment, the social office contributes to creating a Skellefteå where everyone has a place.

Read more about Skellefteå here: http://portal.skelleftea.se/ (http://portal.skelleftea.se/)

Contact from recruitment and staffing companies as well as advertisement sellers is not welcome.