Residential Support Worker at Vallentuna Municipality

Do you have the courage to lead and create a Vallentuna where people and ideas thrive? Do you want a meaningful job where no day is the same, and where you contribute to strengthening people's own abilities and participation? Then you should apply to us.

Vallentuna Municipality has the courage to lead. Our ambition is to be at the forefront when it comes to innovative solutions, smart working methods, and an efficient organization. As an employee, you play an important role in the development work. The municipality as a workplace is characterized by an understanding between politics and operations, where the common interest and responsibility for the best of Vallentuna shines through. Approachability, accessibility, and customer focus are important in our work for good results and increased quality.

Engagement, collaboration, and equal value for all should permeate our organization. You who are applying should of course share our common values.

About the operation:

The residential support is part of the execution operations IFO open care, support, and preventive work where we offer family treatment, youth treatment, and addiction treatment. We work with assistance from the social services authority and have close collaboration with social workers. Residential support is primarily about motivation and support. As a residential support worker, you go to our clients' homes and coach them in planning and structuring their daily lives in a pedagogical and motivating way. We support our clients in everyday tasks, planning purchases, various types of errands, in contact with authorities and healthcare providers, and if necessary, accompany them to scheduled meetings. The residential support works with the ESL method, an independent life. The work is based on the individual's needs and within the framework of the individual assignment. The work is very varied and stimulating and requires the ability to assess the client's needs at the moment and adapt the support according to their current status.

Job responsibilities:

As a residential support worker, you work independently with daily tasks, with support from coordinators, managers, and other team members. Your main tasks consist of client-facing work in the form of individually tailored support such as social support, structure, and ADL. The main work takes place in the client's home, but you will also be responsible for supporting clients with visits and errands outside the home. Furthermore, you are responsible for establishing and following up documentation and record-keeping around the clients. The work is based on a systems-theoretical approach and is based on the individual's needs. The starting point is that nothing is impossible until you have tried.

In the role of residential support worker, you work Monday to Friday during the day, with some evening work occurring.

Qualifications:

• You have relevant education in the field, for example, as a nursing assistant.
• You have work experience in care and support within psychiatry.
• You have knowledge of various psychiatric conditions and neuropsychiatric disabilities.
• Since the job requires documentation in social journals and administrative tasks, you should have good computer skills and command of the Swedish language in both spoken and written form.
• A driver's license (B) is a requirement.
• It is an advantage if you have training in ESL and/or MI, low-arousal approach, suicide prevention.

Personal qualities:

• You work towards results, demonstrate reliability, and take responsibility for planning and following up your work.
• You strengthen relationships by helping others, collaborating, following rules and processes, and sharing information.
• You develop, improve, seek solutions, and learn on your own initiative.
• You are the link, provide service, show loyalty outward and inward, and monitor the environment.
• Common values are reflected in your approach.

We place great importance on personal suitability.

Information:

As an employer, we want to take advantage of the qualities that a balanced gender distribution and cultural diversity bring. Vallentuna Municipality invests in competence development and a sustainable working life. To have the best possible conditions in your employee role, Vallentuna Municipality has an employee academy where you will receive training and tools.

The employment is a permanent full-time position starting immediately or by agreement. We apply individual salary setting.

Before any new employment, Vallentuna Municipality conducts background checks.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we use the tool ReachMee. We ask you to submit your application by clicking on the application link in the advertisement. We do not accept applications/expressions of interest via email. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us as below. Interviews are conducted continuously during the application period.

You are warmly welcome to send your application with a personal letter and CV by 15/2.

For more information contact:

Angelina Larsson, Acting Unit Manager, 085878 6211, [email protected]

More information and union representatives can be found at https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/ (https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/)