Support Assistant at Uttervägen in Umeå Municipality

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 proximity and interaction.

Uttervägen is a group home according to LSS with a focus on intellectual disabilities. The residence houses young active users with a strong interest in training. All users live in their own apartments and share common areas such as kitchen and living room.

Are you a person with a flexible mindset, who enjoys physical activity and active workdays? Then you will thrive with us!

Your Responsibilities

As a support assistant, you support users in their daily lives with approved services such as meals, cleaning, laundry, personal care, transfers, and planning activities. You provide individual, social, and practical support to enable and utilize the person's own abilities, thereby creating conditions for independence. You work to make the individual involved in their daily life and have a meaningful leisure time and/or occupation.

Your work includes participating in the activities chosen by our residents, which may involve the gym, home, or the forest. Documentation, record-keeping, working with implementation plans, and medication management are also part of the job responsibilities.

Sometimes there are animals, dogs, at Uttervägen, so you should not have pet allergies. Threats and violence may occur in the operations.

Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, weekends, and night shifts. Coordination occurs between our operations within disability care services.

About You

You have a good ability to collaborate and maintain a professional demeanor towards users, relatives, and other stakeholders around our users. You are engaged and willing to share our values and work towards set goals, as well as work with continuous improvements. You have a solution-focused and flexible working style and enjoy creating and maintaining structure. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

To communicate with users, relatives, and colleagues, write and access care documentation, and obtain medication delegation, you need to have good knowledge of the Swedish language in both spoken and written form.

Requirements

• Care and nursing program, child and leisure program, social work program, or another education that we assess as equivalent
• Experience working in the field of intellectual disabilities

Meritorious

• Experience in interaction within the disability field
• Experience in behavioral support and clear pedagogy

We would like you to attach a CV and a cover letter.

To ensure that the individuals invited for an interview are the best match for what we are looking for, we use selection questions. The selection questions are based on the requirements and qualifications set for the position, and you will answer the questions in conjunction with your application. Therefore, it is important that you answer the selection questions and do not refer to your CV/cover letter.

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.

Before offering employment, we ask you to present an extract from the police criminal record. This is done as a final step in the recruitment 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 improvements. Together with us, you will work in socially important assignments where you contribute to making Umeå a safe, secure, and enjoyable place.

Umeå is the largest city in northern Sweden with 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 expand, and therefore we might be looking for you! Do you want more too? We offer fair conditions, good benefits, and excellent development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as jobs that are important for all those who live and work here. We look forward to hearing from you.