For a Living Kiruna

One thing is certain. With us, you make a difference. We are Kiruna, as we like to say. We are the caregivers who hold grandma's hand and the teacher who helps little brother read his first words. We are the childcare worker who helps someone grow every day and the social worker who does what it takes to change lives. We are the personal assistant who provides freedom and the librarian who brings literature close. We are the home support staff who drive to the villages in snowstorms like the midnight sun to be there. We are hundreds of competencies, thousands of people, and generations of experience that together ensure, care for, inspire, teach, save lives, think innovatively, move cities, support each other, and take care of people. With pride and care. From mountains to city. Today and tomorrow for a living Kiruna. There is something beautiful in that. Do you also want to work for life, humanity, and the future in Kiruna municipality? Do you want to create value and make a real difference for what is important?

The Mission of the Social Administration

The mission of the Social Administration is to meet people's needs for security. The administration shall work to ensure that the municipality's residents receive social care in various forms and with a special responsibility to safeguard the needs and interests of vulnerable groups. We constantly strive for good quality that benefits the users of our services.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

As a personal assistant, you provide support in everyday life to people with disabilities. As a personal assistant, you try to support users to live their lives as they wish. It is your task to facilitate the user's ability to take care of themselves. This may involve food, hygiene, and household management, but it often also involves helping the user to be a parent and to manage their work. You assist the user in engaging in leisure interests, participating in various community activities, or studying.

The work involves working with several different users. The operation is based on the fundamental principles of the LSS Act. The work includes meeting the individual's needs for guidance and care with respect for self-determination, independence, and integrity. The tasks include being attentive to the users' individual needs, wishes, and resources. You will help with all tasks that occur around the user.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone who enjoys and has the ability to work with people with physical, mental, and/or neuropsychiatric disabilities. You should have a high school education in healthcare or child and leisure education with a focus on developmental disabilities, social work, or other education/experience that the employer considers suitable. Experience with the target group is an advantage.

As a person, we see that you are attentive, driven, and flexible. We see that you have a positive and professional attitude where you show good judgment and understand that you influence the situation when you express yourself and act. We see that you find it easy to collaborate and that you have a good ability to work with different kinds of people. A B driver's license is an advantage. Great emphasis is placed on personal suitability.

It is an advantage if you can speak Finnish. Monday to Friday during the day.

OTHER

To work with us, you must share Kiruna municipality's common values where respect, responsibility, and collaboration are the guiding principles.

We offer a pleasant working environment and stimulating tasks, ensuring that you as an employee achieve a good balance between work and leisure.

We have many different benefits where you as an employee can train for free at various training facilities up to 5000 SEK/year, we have cabins in the mountains that you can rent, and we offer the opportunity to salary exchange for days off.

We strive for a balanced gender distribution and see diversity as a strength; we welcome employees from different backgrounds and work to make our workplaces accessible to all. Kiruna municipality sees full-time as a right and part-time as an opportunity. It is advantageous if you have knowledge of Finnish, Sámi, and/or Meänkieli as Kiruna municipality is an administrative area for these languages.

Kiruna municipality has made a medieval for this recruitment and therefore requests no contact with advertisers or other sellers of recruitment services.