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Job Advertisement: Support Assistant for Sundsvall Municipality
Sundsvalls kommunVästernorrlands län, Sundsvall
Previous experience is desired
13 days left
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Welcome to Sundsvall Municipality!
Sundsvall Municipality is one of Northern Sweden's largest employers with around 8,000 employees and over 300 professions. Together, we fulfill one of the most important missions in society – to create benefit and value for residents, businesses, and future generations. Regardless of the activity, we work towards the same goal: to be a great place to live, work, and thrive.
We are currently in an exciting phase of development. We are a pioneer in digital development and artificial intelligence, leading the work to create smart solutions for the future public sector.
Sundsvall plays a central role in the green transition in northern Sweden. We are convinced that the right places for this transition are here. As a municipality, we are preparing to grow by preparing land, creating new educational opportunities, marketing the municipality, and welcoming new residents from around the world.
Your new workplace:
You will play an important role in creating a safe, developing, and meaningful existence for the care recipients.
Collaboration with other professionals is part of your role to ensure that the needs of the care recipients are met in a pedagogical and structured manner, focusing on the individual's participation and independence. Based on laws, goals, and guidelines, you contribute to ensuring that the user is at the center, has influence over, and is involved in their interventions.
You will work according to LSS and other relevant legislation, as well as the municipality's values, political goals, and other guidelines. The interventions should be based on the individual's psychological, physical, and social needs, aiming to minimize the consequences of disabilities as much as possible.
Your contributions in your professional role:
- Provide support, care, and assistance to individuals and motivate them to engage in meaningful activities in a way that strengthens their resources and enables as independent a life as possible.
- Work with social documentation, follow-ups, and incident reporting.
- Structure and plan work according to the employer's established directives.
- Perform health and medical tasks delegated by a nurse, occupational therapist, and physiotherapist.
- Follow work methods, common approaches, routines, and guidelines.
- Have responsibilities and assignments both within and outside the regular workplace.
- Actively participate in meetings and planning days.
- Contribute to developing a qualitative operation by providing ideas for changes and improvements and participating in professional development.
- Assist in the introduction of new staff and mentor students according to established routines.
- Collaborate with the user's network and other partners.
The position includes work during evenings, weekends, on-call, or awake nights.
Your qualifications and experience:
We are looking for someone with training as a support assistant (nursing assistant with a focus on disability care) or other education deemed equivalent.
Requirements for the position:
- Experience working with low-arousal approaches
- Driver's license (B)
- Good knowledge of Swedish
Meritorious:
- Experience working with clear pedagogical methods and AAC/TAAC
- Basic computer skills and the ability to work in, order, and register in various operational systems
We place great importance on personal suitability!
Welcome with your application.
Good to know
Are you interested in learning more about Sundsvall? Click on www.sundsvall.se (http://www.sundsvall.se) or if you are interested in what it would be like to live and work in Sundsvall, you can read more.
Before employment in the care and nursing administration, we require you to present a valid extract from the police criminal record. You can already order a criminal record to expedite the recruitment process.
We strive for a drug-free work environment, and drug testing may occur upon hiring new staff. We apply smoke-free working hours.
We actively work to increase diversity in our workgroups. We welcome applicants from various backgrounds and experiences.
To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to apply for the position through the link in this advertisement.
If you are also interested in working as emergency service personnel on standby/part-time firefighter, click on the link.
We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.
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