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Do you have the courage to lead and create a Vallentuna where people and ideas thrive? Do you want to make a difference in people's daily lives? Do you enjoy supporting, motivating, and coaching people based on their individual conditions? Then you should apply to us.

Vallentuna Municipality has the courage to lead. 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 this development. 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.

Engagement, collaboration, and equal value for all should permeate our organization. You who apply should obviously share our common values.

About the operations:

Vallentuna Municipality's service housing is an LSS (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) operation targeting individuals with various functional variations who need support and coaching in their daily lives.

Our clients live in their own apartments, all within walking distance of a shared community space centrally located in Vallentuna. Here, permanent staff, hourly substitutes, and a coordinator with pedagogical responsibility (shared with three other operations) work together.

Click the links below to read more about what it might look like in our operations:

Read about Pia (https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/arbeta-som-vikarie/vikarie-inom-vard-och-omsorg/mot-pia/)

Read about Julia (https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/mot-vara-medarbetare/mot-julia-pa-sorgardens-servicebostad/)

Read about working within LSS (https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/arbeta-som-vikarie/vikarie-inom-vard-och-omsorg/arbeta-inom-LSS/)

Job Responsibilities:

The work involves supporting individuals with autism, neuropsychiatric functional variations, intellectual disabilities, and mental health issues. As a support assistant, you help our residents live as independently as possible. This means providing support and coaching in all daily tasks, such as shopping, cooking, cleaning, planning, doctor visits, excursions, activities, etc. As a support assistant, you follow routines and agreements regarding support measures based on an implementation plan. The job also requires being flexible and innovative to motivate clients in their daily lives and to be there as a coach and a source of security.

The schedule includes day, evening, and weekend shifts (every other weekend) on a rolling basis, but no night shifts or on-call duties.

Qualifications:

• Trained nursing assistant, childcare worker, or equivalent education deemed relevant by the employer.
• Knowledge of functional variations, especially neuropsychiatric, psychiatric, and intellectual disabilities.
• Proficiency in Swedish, both spoken and written.
• Computer skills are required as we document and communicate digitally.
• Experience working within LSS is an advantage.

Personal Attributes:

• You work towards results, show reliability, and take responsibility for planning and following up on your work.
• You strengthen relationships by helping others, collaborating, following rules and processes, and sharing information.
• You develop, improve, seek solutions, learning, and knowledge on your own initiative.
• You are the link, provide service, show loyalty internally and externally, and monitor the external environment.
• Common values are visible in your attitude towards others.
• A burning interest in working with the target groups within LSS.

Information:

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

The position is a permanent full-time position starting as agreed, but no earlier than September. We apply individual salary setting and a probation period may be applied.

Persons employed to work with elderly and adults with functional variations in their homes must present an extract from the suspicion and criminal record register. Read more about criminal record checks (https://polisen.se/tjanster-tillstand/belastningsregistret/arbete-i-hemmet-med-aldre-och-personer-med-funktionsnedsattning-e-tjanst/)

Vallentuna Municipality conducts background checks prior to all new hires.

To ensure quality in the recruitment process, we use the ReachMee tool. We ask you to submit your application by clicking the application link in the ad. We do not accept applications/expressions of interest via email. If you have any questions, please contact us as detailed below.

You are warmly welcome to send your application with a cover letter and CV by 2026-08-10.

For more information, contact:

Sofia Hellgren, Unit Manager, 08-587 854 73, [email protected]

More information and union representatives can be found at Vallentuna Municipality's Union Representatives (https://www.vallentuna.se/naringsliv-och-arbete/arbeta-hos-oss/lokala-fackliga-foretradare/)