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

Vallentuna Municipality has the courage to lead the way. 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 equal value for all should permeate our organization. You who apply should obviously share our common values.

About the operations:

Kompassen Escort & Substitute Care is a business 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 operations are directed towards 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 home or local area. The purpose is to relieve the child's parents so that the parents can rest, shop, or spend time with siblings.

Escort: 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 manage their leisure interests.

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

The assignments are based on a certain number of hours per month. Currently, there are assignments from 6 hours a month up to 40 hours a month.

Tasks:

In the role of substitute caregiver, you work to relieve parents in families with children with functional impairments, which may include crafts and play with the child at home or nearby. Our individual assignments are for relatively few hours, but there is an opportunity to take on more assignments in different families to work more hours. The work as a substitute caregiver requires that you are curious to capture the children and their interests. The role also requires that you can plan your time and maintain contact with the family you work with.

As an escort, you play an important role in supporting people with disabilities to live an independent and meaningful life. The assignment involves accompanying and assisting the user with various activities outside the home – for example, walks, leisure activities, errands, or social gatherings. The role also requires that you can plan your time and maintain contact with the family you work with.

Qualifications:

• Experience from working with people with various functional impairments or from healthcare and social care.
• Knowledge and experience within the autism spectrum.
• Knowledge and experience of low-affective approach (calm and non-reactive interaction).
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Educational background in child and functional impairment issues is meritorious.

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, and take initiative for learning and knowledge acquisition.
• You are the link, provide service, show loyalty inside and outside, and monitor the external environment.
• Common values are visible in your attitude towards others.
• You are flexible, accommodating, empathetic, as well as calm and confident in handling active situations.
• You are active and have good physical fitness (you need to be able to run).

Information:

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

The employment is an intermittent employment (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 those employed to work with children and young people must provide a certificate from the Police Authority's criminal record.

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 cover letter and CV by 2010-07-26.

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)