Vacant job

Description

We are now looking for someone who wants to work as a support assistant at our short-term accommodation on Sextettgatan.

Responsibilities

Provide support and service to the children and young people staying at the short-term accommodation. The initiative aims to relieve parents and provide children with a change of environment and recreation.

You will have mixed shifts during the day, evening, on-call according to appendix J, awake night shifts may occur, and the schedule includes every other weekend. Schedules are based on the needs of the operation. Solo work may occur.

Qualifications

• We are looking for someone with relevant education, such as the care and nursing program, the child and leisure program, or other education/experience deemed equivalent by the employer. Previous work in short-term accommodation is seen as a positive.
• Experience working with individuals with special needs. It is a requirement that you have good knowledge of, as well as experience from similar work.
• Ability to handle outwardly aggressive behavior based on a low-arousal approach.
• Knowledge of autism and developmental disabilities, as well as documented experience working with clarifying pedagogy.

You need to be able to move freely in forests and fields, preferably with physical fitness that can handle a run as the children can be very active.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability where flexibility and initiative are very important qualities. Furthermore, you have a professional approach and the ability to collaborate with the individual, relatives, colleagues, and other important professionals for the work.

You should be flexible in your availability. A driver's license (B) and computer skills are required.

Other

Interviews will be conducted continuously during the application period. The position may be filled before the application period has ended.

Before confirmed employment, we request a criminal record extract.

About Karlstad Municipality

The Health and Care Administration is an administration focused on development and innovation, which is evident through our several years as a model municipality for welfare technology in Sweden. The administration employs around 2,000 staff in nursing homes, sheltered housing, home care, functional support, health care, and at our assistance office. These are important jobs where we make a real difference. Our goal is to always provide professional, person-centered care and support.

Do you want to help create the future of Karlstad? With us in the Karlstad Municipality group, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help realize our vision of "A better life in Solstaden." Come and grow with us!

Additional Information

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application via our recruitment system and not via email or paper format. We kindly decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

If you have protected personal information, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system and should not send them via email. Instead, contact the municipality switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.