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. Here, you will be part of something meaningful every day. It is work where you meet people who give back at least as much as you invest – often even more.

Porfyrvägen is an LSS (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) service housing focused on intellectual disabilities. Six people live here in their own apartments, varying in age and care needs. We tailor our support to the individual.

We are now looking for three support assistants for our operations!

Your Responsibilities

You will guide and support individuals with intellectual disabilities in their daily lives. You will offer individual, social, and practical support to enable and utilize the individuals' own abilities, thereby creating conditions for independence. You will work to make individuals participants in their daily lives and ensure they have a meaningful leisure time and/or occupation.

The work includes personal care, heavy lifting, and practical tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and laundry. You will also participate in leisure activities such as cinema visits, exercise, walks, etc.

Working hours are scheduled during the day, evening, weekends, and night shifts. Joint planning occurs between our operations within the disability care services.

There are pets (cats) at the workplace, so you should not be allergic.

About You

As a person, you are secure, curious, and engaged. You have good collaboration skills and a professional attitude towards users, colleagues, and other networks around our users. It is important that you share our values, work towards set goals, and take responsibility for the common work environment. It is also important that you are proactive and enjoy working with changes, as we are undergoing significant development and change work in the operation. Personal suitability will be given great weight.

To communicate with users, relatives, and colleagues, write and review care documentation, and receive medication delegation, you must have good knowledge of the Swedish language in both speech and writing.

Requirements:

• Healthcare and Social Care Programme, Child and Youth Programme, Social Work Programme, or other education deemed equivalent by the employer
• Experience working in healthcare and social care, e.g., in LSS housing or elderly care

Merits:

• Experience working with people with disabilities
• Experience with Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Independent Living (ESL)
• Experience with low-affective interaction
• Experience using lifting aids

Other

Selection and interviews are conducted continuously.

To ensure that candidates called for interviews best meet the requirements and merits for the position, we use selection questions. The questions are designed based on these requirements and merits. Therefore, it is important that you answer the questions in detail and that the competence you state is supported by entries in your CV. Incomplete or deficient answers may result in your application not proceeding in the process.

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

Before an employment offer is made, we ask you to present an extract from the police criminal record. This is done as a final step in the recruitment process.

Apply today!

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 Umeå grows with care. Our values are based on citizen focus, openness, trust, and continuous improvements. Together with us, you will work in socially important assignments where you contribute to Umeå remaining safe, secure, and enjoyable.

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 learn what it is like to live and reside in Umeå: Move to Umeå Municipality.

We are growing, and therefore we might be looking for you? Do you want more? We offer fair conditions, good benefits, and excellent development opportunities for lifelong learning, as well as jobs that are important for all those who live and work here. We look forward to hearing from you.