Support Assistant for Timotejvägen

The Disability Care Services in Umeå Municipality aims to be a resource that liberates and strengthens people's ability to live an independent life through closeness and interaction.

Timotejvägen is a group home for elderly individuals with intellectual disabilities who require assistance and support around the clock. All residents live in their own apartments and share common areas such as kitchens and living rooms.

We are now looking for a Support Assistant!

Your Responsibilities

As a support assistant, you will provide daily support to individuals with mental and/or intellectual disabilities, working in a way characterized by flexibility, continuity, and security. Your support is individually tailored – both socially and practically – and is always based on each individual's needs.

Through a methodical, long-term, and goal-oriented approach, you contribute to strengthening the residents' abilities, participation, and influence in their daily lives. Together with the residents, you create a safe home environment and a meaningful everyday life. You assist in creating a secure and clear daily routine, social interactions, and various leisure activities, as well as practical tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and personal care/intimate hygiene. You will also assist with medication management according to applicable routines.

The responsibilities also include administrative tasks such as planning support measures, establishing structure support, documentation, and creating implementation plans and action plans. Follow-up and evaluation of the work are a natural part of the operations, as is collaboration with other external actors.

• Co-planning occurs between our operations within Disability Care Services
• Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, and weekends
• Heavy lifting may occur, mobility aids should be used

About You

As a person, you are solution-focused and have an attitude characterized by professionalism, humility, patience, and flexibility. You have a positive outlook and a strong commitment to people, are calm, pedagogical, and responsible, and have a desire to share our values and actively work towards set goals.

Furthermore, you are proactive, structured, and solution-oriented, and are driven to work towards continuous improvements. We also desire engagement and openness to development work both in your own workplace and within the entire operational area. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

To communicate with residents and colleagues, write and access care documentation, and obtain medication delegation, you must have fluent knowledge of the Swedish language in both spoken and written form.

Requirements

• Degree from the Health and Care Program, Child and Leisure Program, Social Work Program, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer
• Experience in healthcare and social services
• Experience working with intellectual disabilities
• Experience with low-arousal approaches

Desirable

• Experience working with elderly individuals with dementia
• Experience using structure support/aids

Other

To ensure that the candidates invited for an interview best meet the requirements and merits for the position, we use selection questions. The questions are designed based on these requirements and merits. Therefore, it is important that you answer the questions thoroughly and that the competencies you indicate are supported by information in your CV. Incomplete or insufficient answers may result in your application not proceeding in the process.

Before an employment offer, we will ask you to present an extract from the police record. This is done as a final step in the recruitment process.

Note! Do you have protected personal information? Please contact Recruitment Support at 090-16 10 99 or at [email protected], and they will assist you with a secure application process.

Welcome with your application!

About Umeå Municipality

Umeå Municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 brave employees. Our organization is divided into nine administrations, and together we work to ensure that Umeå grows with care. Our values are based on citizen focus, openness, trust, and continuous improvement. Together with us, you will work on socially important tasks where you contribute to making Umeå a safe, secure, and enjoyable place.

Umeå is the largest city in northern Sweden, offering a rich array of experiences and opportunities. We are a community and cultural city that offers a richer Umeå life even outside of work. Here you can learn about what it's like to live and reside in Umeå: https://www.umea.se/flytta (https://www.umea.se/flytta)

We are looking to grow, and therefore we might be looking for you! Do you want more? We offer fair conditions, good benefits, and excellent development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as jobs that are important for everyone who lives and works here. We look forward to hearing from you.