Vacant job

Do you want to develop with us and join our journey to become Sweden's best group homes? Are you a calm and pedagogical person with experience in the field of disability support?

Apply to us today, we look forward to your application!

Your Role

Rudsjövägen Group Home is an LSS (Act on Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) residence located in a quiet villa area in Duvnäs, close to buses that go to Slussen. The building is a detached house containing six apartments as well as communal areas with a large outdoor space. Adults of varying ages with intellectual disabilities live in the group home. Some of the residents also have physical disabilities.

Rudsjövägen Group Home is part of a business area together with another service residence, which together have an assistant operations manager.

As a Support Assistant, you will work to provide support and service to residents based on their individual needs. This means you will help create conditions for security, personal development, and good living conditions. The focus of the role is always on the customers; we therefore adapt to their needs and respect their wishes and desires. Daily documentation is an important part of the work to ensure good quality and safety in our mission. The work is scheduled during days, evenings, and weekends.

The position involves varied tasks, including support and service in:

• Cleaning
• Personal care
• Hygiene tasks
• Medication management

Is this you?

We are looking for someone who has experience in the field of disability support and has a good understanding of what our mission under the LSS entails. You are accustomed to and have the prerequisites for working independently with customers and are confident in the responsibility this entails. Furthermore, you have high cooperation skills and are a team player. You naturally put the customer's well-being and needs first, have a calm and good attitude towards everyone you meet, and think service in all situations. Our customers have a comprehensive need for support in daily life, so you must be accustomed to care interventions.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

Your Experience

To be considered for the position, you must have:

• Completed education in healthcare/care or child and leisure, with courses taken in disability/special education.
• Experience with autism and cognitive disabilities among adults.
• Experience with low-affective handling (calm de-escalation techniques).
• Computer and documentation experience.
• Very good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Good physical fitness.

Additionally, education and/or experience in IBIC, AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication), clarifying pedagogy, and self-harm behaviors are strongly meritorious.

What We Offer

We offer you a job where the customer is always in focus. Our goal is for our customers to have a life on their own terms. We are currently undergoing a large development process and offer varied work where you get to influence and contribute to change. Our vision is to "shine" and we always want to be at the forefront in the field.

In Nacka, you have the opportunity to work in a municipality that wants to be the best in Sweden at being a municipality, with openness and diversity as its vision and a fundamental value of trusting people's knowledge, will, and ability. As an employee, you are offered a wellness allowance and the benefit of working according to a flexible working hours model. This means you have the right to work full-time or part-time and have the opportunity to influence your working hours based on the needs of the operations.

Extract from the Criminal Record Register

In accordance with the decision of the Nacka Social Board, an extract from the Police Criminal Record Register is required in connection with employment. Choose the extract for work with the elderly or adults with disabilities. We ask you to choose "digital register extract" for faster processing. Please request the extract when you submit your application.

Interested?

If you want to become part of Nacka Municipality, do not hesitate to submit your application!

If you want to know more about the position, you are welcome to contact Assistant Operations Manager Malin Bohman at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

If you want to know more about the recruitment process, you are welcome to contact Recruitment Specialist Helena Söderström at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).

The selection will be made on an ongoing basis, and this position may be filled before the application deadline.

We look forward to your application!

Nacka is one of Sweden's most attractive and well-regarded municipalities. With a focus on goals, results, sustainable employee engagement, and continuous development, Nacka strives to be the best at being a municipality. Nacka Municipality is the employer for you who, with great freedom, innovates and makes a difference.

Welfare Social Services is responsible for the municipality's production of welfare services and operates, among other things, special housing for the elderly and people with special needs, day activities, youth clubs, music school, and cultural houses. In total, we have just over forty units within four business areas with 1,400 employees, and together we turnover approximately 600 million SEK. Our service is characterized by efficient resource utilization, strong citizen influence, and great choice. Within all operations, the ambition is to create the best conditions for creativity, innovation, and knowledge sharing.