Support Assistant in the Support Team

As a support assistant in the Support Team, you provide educational and psychosocial everyday support for the residents. The interventions should be based on respect for people's self-determination and integrity. The operation is part of the care and support sector of Skövde municipality.

The care and support sector has an important societal mission. We work with support, service, care, and assistance for people of all ages, and our operations are characterized by professionalism and human values.

Here we work together as a team. We help and support each other when needed. You are surrounded by high competence, experienced colleagues, and managers. In this role, you also receive so much back from those you are there for. Smiles, gratitude, trust, laughter, friendship, and life stories – here you are always appreciated and significant.

To provide the best conditions for our users/patients to receive the best support and care possible and for our employees to succeed and develop at work, development work and continuous improvements are our focus. We want to be at the forefront of what we do.

As an employee with us, you are important; we want you to develop and stay, which is why you will receive ongoing training and professional development, and if you wish, there are opportunities to try different roles and make an internal career.

RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for someone who wants a rewarding and developing job. In the role of support assistant within housing support, you have the opportunity to contribute to our users achieving the highest possible quality of life in their daily lives. Based on individual needs and wishes, you support several different users by being a practical and everyday support. In an educational way, you stimulate and motivate the individual to participate and lead an independent life.

You help users plan, structure, and carry out the various tasks of everyday life. Housing support is primarily supportive, training, and motivating - not compensatory. We work to strengthen the individual in maintaining and developing their own abilities.

In your role, you may also need to provide support in contacts and visits to healthcare and other authorities.

The work is scheduled for day, evening, and every other weekend.

- "A fantastic fun job, you do good. You go home feeling that you have done a good job and helped others. It is a rewarding job, you give everyday life a golden edge".

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QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with a high school education and approved grades from the care and support program or the child and leisure program, or other equivalent education. It is positive (but not required) if you have knowledge of conversation methodology, such as motivational interviewing (MI), social stories, or drawing talk. Experience with delegated tasks, clarifying pedagogy, low-arousal approach, and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) is also meritorious.

As a person, you are calm and secure and have a respectful, good, and adapted approach. You have the ability to build trust. To succeed in the role, we also see that you need to be very flexible and quickly adapt to different situations. The work involves a great deal of responsibility, the ability to plan and make decisions, collaborate, and cooperate. Personal maturity and security are required to meet individuals and their various support needs. You have the ability to take personal responsibility in your professional role, are proactive, and are used to working independently.

In this role, it is important that you can communicate verbally and in writing in Swedish, as you and the user need to understand each other, but also to carry out documentation. You are computer literate and preferably have experience with social documentation.

A prerequisite for you to work with us is that you have a driver's license and that you can cycle.

- Wanting to support and develop other people is one of the qualities most needed in our society. And you, who have that in you, are the real future.

Upon employment, a criminal record check must be presented.

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Working in Skövde Municipality

In Skövde Municipality, we work with everything from care, support, and education to infrastructure, maintenance, cultural life, and growth. With us, there are hundreds of professions and 5500 employees. The work looks different depending on which operation we work in, but everyone represents the same employer, Skövde Municipality, and our common mission is to be a welfare provider, community developer, and employer. Gender-equal, equal, and inclusive operations are a given for us.

As an employee in Skövde Municipality, you are an important player in a team that every day, all year round delivers services and support to our customers. It is in the meeting with our customers that the value of our work arises. We invest in you as an employee and offer professional development, favorable pension conditions, wellness grants, and several wellness activities and offers. And best of all, we have room for more.

Read more about us as an employer: https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/ (https://www.skovde.se/jobba-hos-oss/)

Read more about the care and support sector: https://www.skovde.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/tjanstepersonsorganisation/sektor-vard-och-omsorg/ (https://www.skovde.se/kommun-och-politik/kommunens-organisation/tjanstepersonsorganisation/sektor-vard-och-omsorg/)

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