Vacant job

Do you want to work closely with people with complex needs and contribute to structure, security, and development? Then apply for the position of Support Assistant in our daily activities.

Your Mission

The role involves being a support in everyday life and helping to create structure for the participants. You will work in a motivating and relationship-building manner. Together with the participants, you create a safe, inspiring, and meaningful environment where participation is the focus. The work also includes documenting and following up on the participants' development and progress. You collaborate closely with colleagues and other professionals to ensure holistic support for the participants. The position also includes traditional care tasks and some cleaning work as a natural part of the daily routine.

Workplace Description

We operate daily activities for people with disabilities and are now developing our work with a focus on psychiatry, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders.

In the activity, we create meaningful activities that can lead to wage employment.

Your Competence

We are looking for you who have relevant education in healthcare, social care, pedagogy, or another related direction. If you also have experience in psychiatric work, training in CM-RACt, and knowledge of evidence-based methods, these are seen as meritorious.

As a person, you are independent, structured, and have a solution-focused approach to work, and you can create engagement around tasks and operations. You work well with other people, listen, communicate, and resolve any conflicts in a constructive way. Furthermore, you have good pedagogical skills and understanding of people's different prerequisites for absorbing knowledge. You lead, motivate, and provide others with the authority needed to effectively achieve common goals. As a person, you are also good at structuring, planning, and prioritizing your work. You see the big picture and take into account the larger perspective, understand your role and mission, and look after the best interests of the entire operation. You are a good analyst who is good at seeing connections and solving complex questions and problems. In your role, you are meticulous and well aware of set goals and quality standards; you place great importance on delivering up to these. To thrive in the role, you need to be creative and have the ability to think outside the box – you see opportunities where others see obstacles.

A driver's license for a car is a requirement for the position, as well as good knowledge of the Swedish language in both speech and writing.

Great importance will be attached to personal qualities.

We process applications continuously, so don't wait to send yours in. Welcome with your application!

In connection with recruitment, we may request extracts from the criminal record register and the suspicion register. This is done in accordance with current legislation and as part of our suitability assessment.

We Offer

Your well-being is important to us! Söderhamn Municipality works actively with health, wellness, and working environment. We have health inspirers, and you have a wellness allowance. For us, it is also important that there is a balance between work and leisure, and we are keen that our employees get the chance to recover as needed. Read more about some of our benefits: Benefits and Advantages - Söderhamn Municipality.

In the archipelago municipality of Söderhamn – where Hälsingland meets the sea, we think new and big. We have the desire to grow to 28,000 inhabitants and start every day from the 'Söderhamnarna' and their needs when we shape and develop our operations. Together we make a difference for individuals and society.

We use competence-based recruitment to create an inclusive and fair process. This means we assess candidates based on their competencies, experiences, and abilities in an equal and equitable manner. Our goal is an objective recruitment where everyone has the same opportunity to show what they can contribute.

In this recruitment, we have already made our choices of advertising channels and cooperation partners. We politely but firmly decline all forms of assistance with the recruitment from outside parties.