Vacant job

Gävle Municipality offers interesting and challenging jobs with good opportunities for you to grow. In the coastal town of Gävle, you are close to nature, culture, and experiences. Do you want to help take Gävle into the future? We are now looking for you who want to make Gävle even better together with us!

The employees of Welfare Gävle make Gävle safer for children, young people, and the elderly, people with disabilities, and those in vulnerable situations. We also work to create the best conditions for adult learning and personal development. We offer future professions that challenge and develop you, and you work with what is truly important. Together, we make Gävle safer!

The Hövdingavägen group home is located in the Bomhus district. At the group home, there are two clients who need tailored support and assistance based on their specific situations, wishes, and life circumstances. There are good bus connections to the area. There are many beautiful walking and forest paths as well as proximity to green areas.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Are you someone who enjoys working with people and supporting them based on their individual needs? How wonderful! Then we have the job for you! We are looking for support assistants for our group home. Together, we make Gävle meaningful!

In the role of support assistant, you will plan, implement, and follow up on work to promote an ethical and humanistic approach towards clients and ensure that you work towards the same goals together. The work includes planning client-related tasks based on the clients' implementation plans and establishing and following up on routines, job descriptions, and action plans. We place great emphasis on clients' independence, participation, and opportunities for communication through various alternative and augmentative communication methods. Support should be provided in a way that strengthens the individual's confidence in their own abilities.

At the group home, two clients with complex needs reside. The clients may struggle with managing their own emotions and reactions, which in turn can lead to challenging behavior. The ability to meet clients with empathy, respect, and professionalism, regardless of behavior, is of utmost importance. What guides you in your work towards our clients, your colleagues, and other partners is Gävle Municipality's values, routines, and policies.

Together with your colleagues and unit manager, you contribute your thoughts, ideas, and reflections on how we work to develop our operations to achieve set goals. Your approach and work methods are based on national guidelines and evidence-based methods aimed at contributing to clients' personal development, strengthening their communicative and social skills, self-esteem, and independence. Guiding in daily work are the clients' implementation plans and action plans, as well as instructions and routines established for each client. You support clients with daily tasks, ranging from cooking, cleaning, personal care, hygiene, leisure activities to social and authority contacts.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has:

• Approved education in the care and nursing program, child and leisure program with a focus on pedagogical and social work, is a support assistant or support educator.
• At least one year of experience working with people with disabilities under LSS.
• Has or has had medication delegation.
• Experience writing social and medical documentation.
• B driver's license and driving experience.
• Good Swedish in both spoken and written form and reading comprehension.

It is an advantage if you have:

• We highly value if you have experience working with challenging behavior.
• Training or experience in clear pedagogical methods.
• Training or experience in alternative augmentative communication.
• Training or experience in low-arousal approaches.
• First aid training.

To succeed in the role of support assistant, you have the ability to work with other people; to listen, show empathy, and respect. You are good at planning and organizing your work and find it easy to set goals, organize resources, follow up, and complete activities. You take initiative, are courageous, and have the ability to separate the issue from the person, as well as having a humble approach in your collaboration with others and can maintain good relationships, both internally and externally. You adapt to different situations and have the ability to change your perspective and approach. You see opportunities in changes.

OTHER

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via Visma Recruit, not via email or paper format. If you have a protected identity, please contact the recruiting manager, do not submit your application digitally.

Within Gävle Municipality, there is a decision regarding the right to full-time employment, which means that permanent employees can request that the position be a full-time position. This request must be accommodated within six months, earliest counted from the first day of employment. To have the right to full-time employment fulfilled, you may need to perform other tasks than those normally included in your employment.

Gävle Municipality belongs to the Finnish administrative area. Therefore, if you also speak Finnish in addition to our other competency requirements, it can be an advantage.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Gävle Municipality has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request not to contact media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.