Residential Assistant for Group Homes

Welcome to the Health and Care Administration. We provide support and care for the elderly and for people with disabilities. Our goal is to enable them to live as active and independent lives as possible.

The Health and Care Administration is one of Sweden's largest employers in municipal care and support. Here, about 7,500 employees work based on our values – making a difference, working together, and welcoming innovation. With us, there are great opportunities to take responsibility, develop, and contribute with your skills. We strive for an organizational culture based on trust and pride in our work.

More information about working in Uppsala municipality can be found at Uppsala municipality (https://www.uppsala.se/jobb/vard-halsa-omsorg/).

Within the Health and Care Administration, we have full-time as the norm. This means that all permanent employees essentially have a full-time position. More information about what this means for this position will be provided during a potential interview. Exempted from full-time as the norm are personal assistants.

We are now looking for hourly substitutes for several of our group homes. Do you have education in health and care and previous experience in the caregiving profession? Would you like to help create a predictable, safe, and joyful everyday life for our clients? Then you might be our next residential assistant, welcome with your application!

We are currently looking for residential assistants for our group homes Lunda 1, Lunda 2, and Gåvsta. The group homes are located in a rural environment. Two of the homes are located at Jällagärdet, 10 minutes from Gränbystaden, and the third is in Gåvsta. Here, adults with intellectual disabilities and/or neuropsychiatric diagnoses reside. In the home called Lunda 2, there are two men with outwardly aggressive behavior.

Our clients have LSS decisions and extensive care needs. The goal of our operations is to create a meaningful and dignified life based on the individual's conditions. With us, you will constantly learn new things in a dynamic environment with eventful days.

As an hourly substitute, you are expected to work irregular hours scheduled during the day, evening, weekend, awake night, and sleeping on-call. Possible working hours include: Day 06/07 - 14/15, evening 14/15 - 22, weekend and awake night 21.30 - 08, or sleeping on-call: work 14 - 22, sleeping on-call on-site, work 07 - 10.

Your Mission

As a residential assistant, your tasks include meeting the individual’s needs for support and care in daily life, ensuring a safe environment, motivating and participating in various leisure activities, and working in a motivating manner with structure and routines according to implementation plans. You will consider each individual's needs to ensure that everyday life is as predictable, safe, and joyful as possible.

You are expected to maintain contact with other actors in the client's network. In this role, you are also expected to help develop the operations based on the municipality's values, routines, and guidelines, as well as work with, for example, alternative and augmentative communication, language development activities, and low-arousal approaches.

Your Background

We are looking for someone with one of the following qualifications or other education that the employer deems relevant for the role:

• High school diploma in health and care
• Adult education in health and care
• Care education equivalent to nursing assistant competence

It is a requirement that you have previous experience in the caregiving profession and experience working with care for people with disabilities and/or neuropsychiatric diagnoses. You need to have good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, and also have good computer skills. It is an advantage if you have knowledge of low-arousal approaches and a driver's license.

As a person, you are empathetic, flexible, and can quickly understand someone else's perspective or situation. You are good at taking initiative, collaborating, and staying calm and composed in challenging situations. Since the work in one of our homes requires providing care to individuals with outwardly aggressive behavior, it is important that you have a good ability to be adaptable, patient, and not easily intimidated.

Inquiries

If you have questions about the position, please contact the operations manager Sosso Milegrim at 018-726 34 77.

Union representative: Kommunal, 010-442 82 04, Vision, Karin Lundborg 018- 727 51 52

If you have questions regarding the registration of your application or the recruitment process, please contact the recruitment unit at 018-727 23 30.

We will request a criminal record extract before an offer of employment can be made.

In your application, you must indicate your citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, the EEA, or Switzerland, you must also be able to prove that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only occur after verification of the work permit, as required by the Aliens Ordinance.

Employment with Uppsala municipality may involve military placement.