Support Assistant for Housing and Support, Welfare Gävle

Do you want to help make Gävle even better with us? In Gävle Municipality, we work together with commitment to offer our residents a safe and inspiring environment. We offer you a trustworthy workplace where you can develop in your work and grow as a person. Welcome with your application!

As a support assistant in the area of Housing and Support, Welfare Gävle, you will work with individuals who have been granted assistance under the Act on Support and Service for Certain Disabled Persons (LSS). The target group may have physical, mental, or intellectual disabilities. The position is located in a group home in Andersberg, Gävle, with five residential places. We currently have seven employees and are now looking for an eighth colleague who will play a key role in creating a safe everyday life and strengthening the customer's opportunities for an independent life. The group home is staffed around the clock. The position involves day, evening, and weekend work according to a schedule.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Are you a reliable person who enjoys working with people and supporting them based on their individual needs? Great! Come and be part of our team with your skills and commitment. Together we make Gävle meaningful.

The work involves providing pedagogical support and care to promote the customer's abilities and independence. The role of the support assistant within Housing with Special Services involves supporting the customer with daily tasks, ranging from assistance with cooking, cleaning, personal care, hygiene, leisure activities to social and authority contacts.

The support assistant's mission includes promoting and developing the customer's communication skills. The work also involves documenting the customer's needs and development. The purpose is to continuously follow up and provide support that contributes to the customer's best possible development.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who has training as a support assistant, care and nursing program, or child and leisure program with a focus on social work, as well as recent experience working with individuals with disabilities under LSS. To adapt communication to different individuals' needs and conditions, the position requires experience with clear pedagogical methods such as TEACCH, support signs, sign language support, and visual aids. The work includes maintaining medical and social documentation, which requires good proficiency in the Swedish language and good computer skills as the documentation is IT-based. Experience with low-arousal approaches, medical delegation, and delegation in tube feeding is also advantageous. Additionally, experience with schedule planning or administrative tasks is considered a merit for the position.

To succeed in your role as a support assistant, you should be attentive to the customers' needs, respectful of their self-determination, but also able to encourage and motivate them to be involved in decisions that affect their daily lives. This requires you to be flexible in your approach and able to read the customers' daily condition and well-being to adjust your interaction accordingly.

You have a humble approach in collaboration with others to provide customers with high-quality services. You also have the ability to organize your work, take initiative, be an active team member, and contribute to the development of the organization while following routines and guidelines. A positive attitude and a constructive approach are fundamental qualities for successful teamwork. We believe that each individual contributes something unique, so your personal qualities are important to us.

In accordance with Gävle Municipality's values, you have a good attitude, a strong ability to collaborate, and prioritize high quality in your work.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Gävle Municipality and facilitate 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 work, which means that permanent employees can request that the position be a full-time employment. This request must be met within six months, earliest counted from the first day of employment. To have the right to full-time work 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 may be an asset.

In preparation for the recruitment process, Gävle Municipality has made decisions regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore firmly request no contact from media sellers, recruitment sites, or similar.