Sunnersta, Sävja and Malma Backe

Do you want to make a difference? Do you enjoy working with people and providing them with the opportunity to lead a rich and varied life based on each individual's wishes and needs? Then you might be the one we are looking for. Welcome with your application!

We are now looking for residential assistants for several of our group homes located in Sunnersta, Sävja, and Malma Backe. Here live adults with LSS decisions who need support and care. The goal of our operations is to provide each user with a meaningful and dignified life based on their individual wishes and needs.

Your assignment

Your tasks as a residential assistant include meeting the individual's needs for support and care in everyday life, ensuring a safe environment, motivating and participating in various leisure activities, and working in a motivating manner with structure and routines according to implementation plans.

Your assignment includes:

• ensuring that each individual's needs are met to make everyday life as predictable, safe, and joyful as possible.
• maintaining contact with other actors in the user's network.
• writing and updating implementation plans based on the user's needs.

This is a dynamic job where no day is the same, and it suits you who enjoy a varied workday. In this role, you are expected to help develop the operations based on the municipality's values, routines, and guidelines, as well as work with, for example, alternative and augmentative communication, language development activities, and low-arousal approaches.

The job includes working irregular hours according to a rolling schedule with shifts during the day, evening, weekend, with sleeping on-call or awake night shifts.

In this assignment, we primarily seek permanent employees but also temporary hourly substitutes.

Your background

We are looking for someone who has completed a high school diploma in health and care, adult education in health and care, nursing education equivalent to assistant nurse competence, relevant pedagogical education, or other education that the employer deems relevant for the assignment. If you have a driver's license, this is an advantage. You need to have experience working in the care profession, and it is beneficial if you have worked with care for people with disabilities.

Good oral and written skills in Swedish are a requirement. Knowledge of low-arousal approaches and alternative communication is an advantage. You should also be familiar with working in various computer programs and systems.

As a person, you have a good empathetic ability and can quickly understand someone else's perspective or situation. You are a flexible person who can see opportunities in changes. You have good collaboration skills, patience, and relate to others in a responsive manner.

In Uppsala Municipality, we take joint responsibility for our work environment and work together to create a good climate in the unit with respectful interactions.

Inquiries

If you have questions about the position or the recruitment process, contact:

• Julia Fokina, manager Sunnersta, 018-726 34 95
• Therese Lundh, manager Malma Backe, 018-727 72 15
• Anne Redforsen, manager Sävja, 018-727 36 36.

Union representative: Kommunal, 010-442 82 04.

If you have questions regarding the registration of your application, contact the unit for competence supply: 018-727 26 59.

We will request an extract from the criminal record before employment can be offered.

In your application, you must state your citizenship. If you are not a citizen of Sweden, the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, you must also be able to prove that you have a valid work permit or are exempt from the requirement to have a work permit. Employment can only occur after verification of the work permit, which is required according to the Aliens Ordinance.

About our organization

Welcome to the health and care administration. We work with support and care for the elderly and for people with disabilities. The goal is for them to lead as active and independent lives as possible.

The health and care administration is one of Sweden's largest employers in municipal health and care. About 7,500 employees work here based on our values – making a difference, working together, and welcoming innovation. With us, there are great opportunities to take responsibility, develop, and contribute with your skills. We strive for an organizational culture with trust in each other and pride in the operations.

More information about what it is like to work in Uppsala Municipality can be found at Work in health and care - Uppsala Municipality (https://www.uppsala.se/foretag-och-arbete/jobb-och-karriar/jobba-hos-oss/arbeta-inom-vard-och-omsorg/)

Within the health and care administration, we have full-time as the norm. This means that all permanent employees essentially have a full-time position. More information will be provided during a possible interview about what this means for this position. Exceptions (from full-time as a norm) are personal assistants.

We decline offers of advertising and recruitment assistance.

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