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Do you have the courage to lead and create a Vallentuna where people and ideas can grow? Are you passionate about supporting people in their daily lives? Then you should apply for the position as a substitute caregiver.

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 development work. The municipality as a workplace is characterized by a consensus between politics and operations, where the common interest and responsibility for Vallentuna's best shine through. Attitude, accessibility, and customer focus are important in our work for good results and increased quality.

Commitment, collaboration, and the equal value of all should permeate our organization. You who apply should obviously share our common values.

About the operations:

Kompassen Escorting & Substitute Care: is an operation conducted according to the LSS Act (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments). We only have needs-based employees, several of whom are relatives employed by the municipality. The operation is aimed at children and adults who need support to participate in social contexts or to relieve parents of children with functional impairments.

Substitute Care: The task involves you working with younger children in their homes or local area. The task aims to relieve the child's parents so that the parents can rest, shop, or spend time with siblings.

Escorting: The task involves you accompanying the customer on daily activities. This could be as support on the bus ride to university or to help the customer pursue their leisure interests.

You may have several different assignments, both as a substitute caregiver and an escort.

The assignments are based on the number of hours per month.

Job Description:

As a substitute caregiver, you support a family with children who have functional impairments by creating a safe and stimulating environment. The assignment may involve play, crafts, and activities at home or in the local area, with a focus on giving the child a meaningful and fun time.

For this assignment, we are looking for several substitute caregivers who can alternate on the task. It is a total assignment of 40 hours per month.

We are looking for engaged and active people who together can relieve the family and support a 6-year-old girl in her daily life and leisure time. She is happy, likes music and everything that makes sound, as well as showering and bathing, but not outdoors. You who apply need to have patience, handle monotonous sounds, be responsive and empathetic. You also need to be curious, observant, and active.

Qualifications:

• Experience from working with people with various functional impairments or from healthcare and social care.
• Advantageous with pedagogical education within child and functional impairment fields.
• Knowledge and experience from working with people within the autism spectrum.
• Knowledge of PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System).

Personal qualities:

• You work towards results, show reliability, and take responsibility for planning and follow-up of your work.
• You strengthen relationships by helping others, collaborating, following rules and processes, and sharing information.
• You develop, improve, seek solutions, learning, and knowledge on your own initiative.
• You are the link, provide service, show loyalty outwardly and inwardly, and monitor the external environment.
• Common values are visible in your attitude.
• You are flexible, accommodating, and empathetic and can work from a low-affective attitude.
• You are active, curious, and have a keen sense of touch while being calm, secure, and patient.

Information:

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

The employment is intermittent (a needs-based employment where you receive compensation per hour worked) starting as soon as possible. We apply individual salary setting.

Before all new hires, Vallentuna Municipality conducts background checks.

All who are employed for work with children and young people must submit an extract from the police authority's criminal record for work with children with disabilities.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process, we use the tool ReachMee. We ask you to submit your application by clicking the application link in the advertisement. We do not accept applications/expressions of interest via email. If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact us as described below.

You are warmly welcome to send your application with a personal letter and CV by 2024-07-10.

For more information contact:

Madeleine Östling, Unit Manager, email: [email protected]

More information and union representatives can be found at http://www.vallentuna.se/ledigajobb (http://www.vallentuna.se/ledigajobb)