Welcome to Lidköping!

You are looking for new challenges. We are looking for you! We hope you want to be part of a welcoming and sustainable municipality driven by commitment. In Lidköping, water is always close by with Vänern and the archipelago around the corner, and Lidan winding through the city. It is a place rich in history that we embrace as we aim to develop and plan for the future of Lidköping. With us, you will have the opportunity to try new things and develop while making a daily difference for residents, businesses, associations, and visitors in Lidköping. Welcome with your application to Lidköping Municipality!

About the job

We are looking for someone who wants an exciting and developing job in support functions.

As a support assistant with us, you will have a varied job that includes many contact points. The goal is for the resident to be able to create their own home and live a life on their own terms based on their own conditions. The day should be understandable for the individual, where structure, clarity, and security are cornerstones. For us, respect for people's self-determination and integrity is the foundation of our work.

Residential adults LSS 3 currently consists of two group homes and a service residence. These operations are governed by the Act on Special Support and Service and exist within Lidköping Municipality. Our residents have disabilities of varying degrees, intellectual disabilities, and developmental psychological disabilities such as ADHD/Autism. As an employee with us, work can take place in more than one residence as we guarantee all employees full-time work.

Job responsibilities

As a support assistant with us, you provide care and social support based on the individual needs and wishes of the resident. This may include social and physical activities, both individually and in groups. In your work, you assist residents with health and medical interventions as well as rehabilitative interventions as prescribed by a nurse, physiotherapist, and occupational therapist.

Case management is part of your work, meaning you have a special responsibility for one or more individuals. You help create good relationships with colleagues, users, and relatives. Your work also includes ongoing documentation and responsibility for establishing, following up, and revising implementation plans.

Working hours are during the day, evenings, weekends, and sleeping on-call. You will coordinate with other units.

Who are you?

We are looking for someone who takes responsibility for their work tasks with the resident's best interests in focus and who is keen to complete the work they have started. As a person, you have the ability to take initiative and create trusting relationships based on care and empathy. You work independently and have good collaboration skills as you actively participate in teamwork.

You should be able to quickly adapt to different circumstances and meet the situations that may arise. Together with your colleagues, you will develop the educational work based on the users' implementation plans and activity descriptions.

Requirements:

• Approved grades from one of the following programs - Child and Leisure Program with a focus on social work, Leisure Leader Education with a focus and/or experience in working within support functions or Health and Care Program
• Proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written, as well as good reading comprehension
• Basic digital competence
• Driver's license for manual transmission

Meritorious:

• Health and Care College diploma.
• Experience with a low-arousal working method
• Experience in similar work
• Experience in documentation.

Other

In our operations, everyone who is to be employed to work within support functions must, according to law (2010:479), present an extract from the criminal record for the hiring manager. The form to be used can be downloaded from the police (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/blanketter---barn-med-funktionsnedsattning/). It usually takes 1-2 weeks to receive it by mail, and it must be shown before employment to the hiring manager.

You will work scheduled hours such as days, evenings, weekends, and sleeping on-call. The position is a permanent employment at 100% with the possibility of a desired employment rate.

Your employment will be within the Social Welfare Sector of Lidköping Municipality, which means you may work in other units.

We apply a probationary period of 6 months.

Selection takes place continuously during the recruitment period.

Application

Lidköping Municipality asks that you submit your application via our recruitment tool Varbi. You will find a button at the bottom of the ad where you log in and apply for the position. If for any reason you cannot apply (e.g., protected identity), please contact the ad's contact person for an alternative application route. We kindly decline calls from staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of job ads.

Wondering what there is to do and see when you are not working? Lidköping as a place promises a rich life; it is not about money but about the opportunities to live a good life. Here, there is plenty of what is essential in life. Good schools, safe areas, a diverse business community, and an active sports and association life. And of course, a beautiful lakeside location by Vänern.

Discover more and more opportunities at Lidköping (https://lidkoping.se/kommun-och-politik/jobba-hos-oss---lediga-jobb).