Support Assistant to Trelleborg Municipality

In Trelleborg, we work together for a growing successful community where life is good. Our 61 villages and 21 districts are creative meeting places that bubble with life. Here we want to do things, tell about them, and come just as we are. This makes us welcome others in the same generous and curious way.

Welcome to take your place on the journey!

The Mission of the Social Administration

The mission of the Social Administration is to work with social services and provide support so that everyone in the municipality feels safe and has the same opportunities in life. We want everyone to be able to be active and involved in society. With a focus on respect for the individual's right to decide over their own life, we are responsible for three important areas: care and support, assistance for people with disabilities, and help for individuals and families. Our goal is for everyone to receive the support and care they need.

The Workplace

Within the Department of Support Services, there are several group homes, daily activities, children's and youth homes, as well as short-term and leisure activities according to the LSS.

We start from a user-oriented perspective where users are given support and services based on individual needs. The goal is to enable independence, self-determination, and participation to the greatest extent possible, based on each user's ability.

We are now looking for you to join our service unit as a support assistant. We provide services to approximately 100 users with varying degrees of disabilities who live in their own apartments within Trelleborg Municipality. The users have decisions according to the Act on Special Support and Service (LSS) - service apartments; escort services; respite services, and also the Social Services Act (SOL) - housing support.

You will join a workgroup consisting of nearly 30 employees. We challenge ourselves daily by always wanting to be a little better than yesterday! What characterizes us is a high ambition to create a safe and developing environment with the users' best interests in focus.

We are looking for you who want an exciting assignment, with great opportunities to influence and develop in your professional role. Welcome to us!

What We Can Offer You

• Varied work
• Internal competence development
• Municipal-wide benefits
• The best colleagues

Job Responsibilities

As a support assistant, you are a key person in supporting and guiding users based on a pedagogical and practical approach in the user's daily life and residence, including; care/hygiene, activities, cooking, and skills training. All with the aim of helping users achieve increased independence.

Based on the users' implementation plans, you work to establish, drive, and follow up on the goals of the implementation plan and realize the highest possible quality and participation in everyday life. In addition, you take into account individual needs and conditions with a strong user focus where influence and self-determination are central.

The work is very varied. We work from a structured approach where the tasks are to motivate, guide, and assist users in various everyday situations. With good and clear communication and a positive attitude, your task is to create calm and security for the users regardless of the situation. You work from a solution-focused approach and need to be able to handle unforeseen events calmly and safely. Solo work occurs, but you always have colleagues to contact.

We work to maintain social contacts and relationships. Despite this, you have close collaboration with colleagues; support assistants, support educators; management, and health and social care teams to continuously develop the operations and achieve set goals.

As a support assistant, you are expected to be active in maintaining social documentation relevant to the work, as well as contributing to development work around social documentation and implementation plans.

Qualifications

For the role of support assistant, we are looking for you who have:

• High school diploma from the health and social care program, child and youth program, or other equivalent education that the employer deems comparable
• At least one year of work experience in providing support to people with disabilities under the legislation from LSS and SOL.
• Good computer skills and documentation experience
• Good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish
• B driver's license for manual transmission vehicle
• Good physical ability, as the work involves activities with users

For the role of support assistant at the service unit, it is advantageous if you have professional experience and knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

• Clarifying pedagogy; meeting individuals with challenging behavior; low-affect behavior, mental health issues, and addiction.
• Establishing implementation plans, risk analyses & action plans, as well as mapping abilities.
• Work within activities conducted as service apartments.

In addition to the above, it is especially important that you have good self-awareness, are secure in yourself, are attentive, take responsibility, and collaborate well with everyone you meet. You are flexible, open, and see opportunities instead of obstacles. You use your analytical skills and strive to improve the operations for our users. You also have good self-awareness and contribute to a good working climate and work environment. Great emphasis will be placed on personal suitability.

Before an employment offer, an acceptable extract from the police criminal record must be presented along with identification documents.

Working Hours

Rolling schedule; day, evening, and weekend shifts.

Other

Union contacts: http://www.trelleborg.se/facket (http://www.trelleborg.se/facket)

Please note that we have removed the personal letter from the application process and replaced it with qualification and selection questions. This is for a more inclusive recruitment process and an efficient candidate experience for you applying for a job with us. Your answers will be an important part of our selection work.

In preparation for the recruitment work, Trelleborg Municipality has carefully considered recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore strongly request no contact with media sellers, recruitment sites, and similar.