Vacant job

The Disability Care Services in Umeå Municipality aim to be a resource that empowers and strengthens people's ability to live independent lives through proximity and interaction.

Fruktvägen and Cirkelgatan are children's residences under Section 9, Paragraph 8 of the LSS Act (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) – housing with special services for children and young people with disabilities. Staff is available around the clock to provide support and care based on each child's individual needs. We offer a safe home environment where children have the opportunity for social interaction, development, and meaningful activities, both inside and outside the residence. Together, we work to create participation, strengthen the children's independence, and give them the best possible daily life.

We are now looking for three support assistants!

Your Responsibilities

As a support assistant at Fruktvägen/Cirkelgatan, you work to ensure that every child has a safe, developmental, and meaningful daily life. Together in the team, we create the best conditions for the children to grow, develop, and participate in their lives – every day.

The role includes, among other things:

• Supporting and participating with the children in their daily activities, both at home and outdoors.
• Accompanying them to school and, as a contact person, participating in meetings with, for example, the school and social services.
• Assisting with personal hygiene.
• Being responsible for routine household chores such as cooking, cleaning, and washing dishes.
• Maintaining close dialogue with the children's parents and relatives.
• Documenting in journals and care plans.
• Medication delegation and handling of medical conditions such as epilepsy and kidney disease.
• Collaborating with the manager and colleagues.

Important Information

• Outbursts and self-harming behavior occur.
• Working hours are scheduled for days, evenings, weekends, and night shifts.
• Joint planning occurs between our operations within the Disability Care Services.

About You

To succeed and thrive in the job with us, you have a good ability to cooperate and be flexible. Naturally, you have a professional attitude towards the children, relatives, and other actors around them. You are engaged, share our values, and wish to develop and work towards set goals together with the manager and colleagues. Since the children are fast and active, you need to be in good physical shape to keep up with their pace. Great importance will be placed on personal suitability.

Requirements

• Trained assistant nurse, childcare worker, teacher, or other education that the employer deems equivalent.
• Experience working in LSS operations, schools, preschools, or elderly care.
• Good knowledge of the Swedish language in speech and writing, to communicate with users, relatives, and colleagues, write and read care documentation, and obtain medication delegation.
• Swimming skills, as swimming with the children is part of the job duties.

Merits

• Experience working with children with disabilities.
• Experience with epilepsy, children with outbursts, and/or AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication).
• Category B driver's license, as our children's operations have a car.

We warmly welcome your application!

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Other Information

To ensure that the persons called for interviews are the best match for what we are looking for, we use selection questions. The selection questions are based on the requirements and merits for the position, and you answer the questions in connection with your application. Therefore, it is important that you answer the selection questions and do not refer to your CV/personal letter.

NOTE! Do you have protected personal data? Please contact Recruitment Support at 090-16 10 99 or at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]), and they will help you with a secure application process.

Before an offer of employment, we ask you to produce an extract from the police's criminal record register. This is done as a final step in the recruitment process.

About Umeå Municipality

Umeå Municipality is the region's largest employer with over 13,000 important employees. Our organization is divided into nine departments, and together we work to ensure that Umeå grows with care. Our core values are citizen focus, openness, trust, and continuous improvement. Working with us, you will have the opportunity to work in socially important assignments where you contribute to Umeå continuing to be safe, secure, and fun.

Umeå is the largest city in northern Sweden with a rich offering of experiences and opportunities. We are a city of associations and culture that offers a richer life even outside of work. Here you can read about what it is like to live and reside in Umeå: Move to Umeå Municipality.

We are going to be more, and therefore we are perhaps looking for you? Do you want more? We offer fair conditions, good benefits, and good development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as jobs that are important for everyone who lives and works here. We look forward to hearing from you.