We are looking for a Support Assistant

We are looking for a support assistant with a strong commitment to promoting independence and quality of life for children and young people in a residential care setting according to LSS.

Your Mission

In the role of support assistant, you will ensure that the interventions in the individual’s implementation plan are planned, executed, evaluated, and developed as needed. The support measures are based on the children’s/young people's individual needs to promote abilities, integrity, participation, and self-determination.

You will also work with daily documentation in the Life Care system.

You will provide educational support and assistance regarding personal care, meals, activities, cleaning, and laundry.

Manage the maintenance of the unit's premises, cooking, and purchasing.

Be responsible for maintaining close and good cooperation with guardians, relatives, schools, and other professionals in health and medical care.

Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, nights, and weekends.

Working in a residential care setting for children and young people according to LSS means supporting the individual by guiding, structuring, and motivating in everyday life. The interventions vary based on the individual’s needs. The work may involve everything from simple support in daily life such as planning the week, managing the household, and accompanying on leisure activities to more extensive support in meeting basic needs.

Challenging situations may arise, making it important to have good knowledge of low-affect responses.

In some cases, you will perform delegated health and medical care interventions.

Your Experience

• You should have an appropriate upper secondary education from the child and youth program, focusing on social work, educational work, or the health and care program with a vocational outcome in disability or psychiatry, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer.
• I have good computer skills and command the Swedish language well in both speech and writing.

Desirable Qualifications:

• I have previous experience working with children and young people with disabilities.
• I have knowledge of AAC, Alternative and Augmentative Communication.
• I have knowledge and experience in low-affect responses and clarifying pedagogy.

Is this you?

• I strive to maintain a positive collaborative climate and actively promote an open dialogue in the workplace.
• I am helpful and accommodating and attentive to the needs of others.
• I am outgoing and seek contact in professional and social contexts. I actively take the initiative to create relationships and build networks.

We Offer

With us, you have the opportunity for varied work with a broad target group. You have the chance to plan and structure your work based on the assignment. You will actively participate in driving change and development work.

About the Workplace

In short-term stays and supervision, we work to provide support to children, young people, and young adults with disabilities. The work is varied and highly developmental as you encounter a wide spectrum of intellectual disabilities, autism, and NPF diagnoses.

We offer environmental change and recreation for the individual – and relief for the relatives. The support is individually tailored and based on the individual’s needs to ensure good living conditions and a good life. It is based on an active interest from us and a willingness to listen and understand. Through motivating and practically supportive measures, we help individuals meet and manage various situations in everyday life with the goal of living as independently as possible based on their abilities. Support is provided both in the facility's premises and in everyday activities in the community.

Other Duties:

• Quality assure the operations based on the users' need for support.
• Ongoing work with low-affect responses and clarifying pedagogy.

Other Information

In this recruitment, we are working with ongoing selection, which means that we continuously evaluate applications. All applications will be considered, and no one will be hired before the advertisement expires.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally. If you have problems with the application, please contact Visma support at 0771-693 693.

Your application documents are public documents and are handled according to the principle of public access. If you have a protected identity, you should apply by submitting your application in writing or leaving it at the Contact Center at Gröna Torg 2. Mark your application with the Recruitment Department and the advertisement's reference number.

According to the Law (2013:852) on background checks, you must be prepared to provide a background extract (no more than one year old) from the police's criminal record. The extract must be ordered by the job seeker from the National Police Board. The form can be downloaded from www.polisen.se or obtained at the nearest police station.

Employees are sought on the condition that the position is not required by already employed personnel or persons with preferential rights.