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As an employee of Götene Municipality, you become part of a whole where commitment and cross-boundary collaboration are second nature. Here, we value courage and innovation in everything we do, and we strive for workplaces that stimulate creativity, initiative, and responsibility. With us, you have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful and socially beneficial efforts that make a difference in people's daily lives.

We have a clear vision – we want to become Sweden's best rural municipality. Götene Municipality is the place where people, young or old, or anywhere in between, feel safe and have the conditions to develop. Children are at the center here. We nurture the drive and creativity of every young individual by offering top-class education, a rich cultural life, and a meaningful leisure time that gives children and young people the opportunity to develop into their best selves. The calm, community, and simplicity here, combined with the pulse of the surrounding cities, provide the conditions for a rich life, regardless of where you are in life. Around the corner await Vänern and Kinnekulle with an outdoor lifestyle that many can only dream of.

Do you want to help shape Sweden's best rural municipality? Read more about Götene Municipality at www.gotene.se (https://www.gotene.se), and about what life in Skaraborg has to offer at https://www.livetiskaraborg.se/kommuner/gotene (https://www.livetiskaraborg.se/kommuner/gotene).

Watch the film about how Götene became the most famous Swedish municipality in the world.

Do you want meaningful work where you contribute every day to creating safety, inclusion, and independence for other people? Are you driven by working closely with individuals and want to be part of an operation that makes a difference in people's daily lives? Then this might be the right job for you.

We are now looking for support assistants for our operations within disability support according to LSS (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments). The position is part of a joint recruitment within disability support, which means you may work in different operations based on needs and your competence. This offers the opportunity for variation, development, and broad experience in the field. The role also involves a certain flexibility, where work may be assigned to different operations as needed.

As a support assistant, you are an important part of the individual's daily life. You work closely with the person and provide support based on their needs and conditions, focusing on creating a predictable, understandable, and meaningful existence. The work involves planning, implementing, and following up on measures together with your colleagues based on the individual's implementation plan. The role includes providing support in daily activities, social contexts, and leisure time, as well as motivating towards independence, participation, and engagement. We work with clarifying pedagogy and low-affective handling to create structure and security in everyday life. Participation, self-determination, and a meaningful daily life are central parts of the work. Documentation is a natural part of your workday, as is collaboration with colleagues, relatives, and other professions. The role may also include delegated health and medical tasks, such as medication management, in accordance with current routines.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• Have education within the Care and Nursing program, Child and Youth program, Social Work, or other education that the employer deems equivalent
• Have experience working with people with functional variations
• Are secure and stable with the ability to remain calm in challenging situations
• Are responsible and can work both independently and in a team
• Are flexible and have good collaboration skills
• Have good computer skills and can express yourself well in Swedish, both orally and in writing

Merits for the position:

• Knowledge of low-affective handling and clarifying pedagogy
• Training in Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Further education within functional variations
• Knowledge of Individual Needs in Focus (IBIC)
• Experience working with people with challenging behaviors
• Knowledge of neuropsychiatric functional variations such as autism and ADHD
• Knowledge of Sign Support

Great importance is placed on personal suitability.

Employment Conditions

Permanent employment with a degree of employment according to agreement and start date according to agreement. The work is scheduled and may involve day, evening, weekend, on-call, or night shifts depending on the operation. A Category B driver's license is required.

If you want to be part of an operation where you make a difference every day, you are warmly welcome to apply. Interviews may be conducted on an ongoing basis.

Candidates called for interviews must be able to identify themselves with a passport, international ID card, or personal certificate (driver's license is not valid).

In the event of employment, extracts from the criminal record must be presented for positions involving work with children, for example, in preschools, schools, LSS operations, and residential homes for youth (HVB). This also includes positions involving work with the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as leadership positions. In light of this, we recommend that you apply for this in good time via the police website: Criminal Record - Request Extract | Swedish Police Authority (https://polisen.se)

In connection with recruitment, you as a job seeker have the right to receive information about the starting salary or salary range applicable for the current position. You also have the right to receive information about the current collective agreement. You can find information via our website.

Salary and Wage Setting - Götene Municipality (https://www.gotene.se)

We only accept applications electronically via our website. Staffing and recruitment agencies as well as sellers of job advertisements are requested to refrain from applying. Götene Municipality applies smoke-free working hours. Götene Municipality strives for gender equality and diversity in our operations and therefore actively works for an even gender distribution and ethnic and cultural diversity.