Vacant job

The position is located within the Social Services Administration, which is one of eight administrations in Linköping Municipality. The Social Services Administration is responsible for authority exercises, ordering of measures, and own management within the areas of individual and family care, LSS (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments), and social psychiatry. We ensure that all residents receive the support they are entitled to.

Do you want to improve the everyday life, future, and quality of life for the people of Linköping? With us, you can combine important tasks with a meaningful everyday life. Welcome to us!

Your tasks

In the role of support assistant, you work with people with physical, mental, and/or intellectual disabilities. You work together with the individual based on their needs, and together you create a meaningful everyday life where the key words are independence and participation. Your tasks involve providing support in both daily life and leisure activities, personal care, health, and functional ability. You provide pedagogical support and work consciously to ensure that the individual uses and develops their abilities as independently as possible. The work also involves being the link to society, where you may need to assist with communication with, among others, authorities and healthcare. In addition to these tasks, you may support with cleaning, laundry, shopping, and handling medication.

We work with IBIC (Individual Needs in Focus), which means that you have the individual's needs in focus. You may be a contact person and are responsible for structuring and planning the individual's everyday life together with them, as well as jointly designing the measures provided. The scope and content of the measures always stem from the individual's needs and well-being and are drawn up via an implementation plan. You are responsible for updating and revising the implementation plan and keeping it current. The work involves daily documentation and recording in the system Treserva. As a contact person, you also have close contact with relatives and other external parties. You work both independently and in a team.

Your workplace

Are you our new colleague? You are an important puzzle piece in our work to create good days for the individual, the operation, and the staff group. We are now looking for a new colleague who wants to become part of our work group. The position is a permanent employment of 90-100 %.

The LSS Department within the Social Services Administration offers operations according to the Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments on behalf of the Care Board. The LSS Department is responsible for group and service housing, short-term respite care, cultural and leisure activities, and family care. We also have nurses focused on all LSS residences in the municipality. Through our employees, we offer operations with good quality where we base ourselves on our common value base, which ensures good living conditions for those we serve.

Blåbärsvägen 82 is a residence for people with intellectual disabilities and autism with moderate care needs. The group home is aimed at a target group aged 35–65. The individuals need help with guidance, care, social contacts, interaction, structure, and routines. Challenging behavior may occur. The individual lives in their own apartment with access to a shared kitchen, living room, and balcony. The user usually travels to day activities part-time/full-time. Activities are based on the user's wishes and may include shared meals, walks, exercise, and excursions. We have the possibility to do activities using the operation's car, which is a pleasant addition to everyday life.

The operation is nicely located in Sturefors, approx. 11 km outside Linköping. There are good bus connections here, and it is also nice to cycle on the beautiful cycle path that takes you through fine nature to Sturefors. We value a good working environment by, among other things, offering health benefits and good opportunities for competence development and supervision.

You who apply

We are looking for you who have a completed upper secondary education and experience within support, care, and social services. If you have taken the care and nursing program, child and youth program, or other pedagogical education deemed equivalent, we see this as meritorious. For the position, you need to have previous experience working with people with challenging behavior. If you have previous experience working with people with intellectual disabilities and autism, this is seen as meritorious.

Some users have limitations in verbal communication, and therefore knowledge of alternative and augmentative communication is also desirable. The work involves many customer contacts and documentation, which means that it is a requirement that you can communicate orally and in writing in Swedish. You have the ability to use digital tools in your work, and it is meritorious if you have experience documenting in medical record systems, implementation plans, and working based on IBIC.

A B driver's license is a requirement as we use a car in the work.

To succeed in the role, we see that you are self-reliant, take responsibility for your tasks, and drive your work forward. You have good cooperation skills and work well with other people, are receptive and communicative. You ensure that messages are clear and reach their destination and that expectations are clear for all involved parties. You have empathetic ability and can put yourself in others' perspectives and situations without taking over the person's feelings.

Welcome with your application!

Other information

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Start date: By agreement

Employment type: Permanent employment

Employment level: 90–100 %

Number of vacant positions: 1

Ref. no: 17482

No cover letter is attached to this application

Your commitment makes us better

Within Linköping Municipality, there are many opportunities, lots of knowledge, and different areas of responsibility. We work together where your sense of responsibility is a valuable driving force. With your commitment, you contribute to making Linköping even better.